目连戏是搬演佛家弟子目连僧入冥间救母故事的中国古老戏曲剧种。有关目连事迹及其救母故事,约在《经律异相》、《佛说盂兰盆经》等数十种释家经文典籍里可见到情节的轮廊或片断。 “目连救母”大致沿释家经典(汉魏时期)——变文(隋唐五代时期》——杂剧传奇戏(宋元至明代)的衍变之路,约在明清之际,有些地方的目连戏曲吸收了社会上流传的《目连宝卷》中人物情节或采用宝卷的说唱文学式(如:齐言句)编写戏文。这样,使中国目连戏 Headline drama is a drama of the ancient operas in China, where the disciple of Monk Shuang, a disciple of Buddhism, plays a part in helping the mother. About the deeds of the company and the story of his salvation, the corridor or fragment of the plot can be seen in dozens of scriptures and classics, such as “The Disciples of the Discipline” and “Buddhism”. “Mulian save his mother,” roughly along the evolution of the classic family (Han and Wei Dynasties) - Variational (Sui and Tang Dynasty Five Dynasties period - “Drama Zaixi opera (Song Yuan to the Ming Dynasty) the evolution of the road, about the Ming and Qing Dynasties, some places , The drama of ”Motian“ absorbs the plot of the characters in the ”Mulan Bao" or the poem of rap style (eg, Qi Yan sentence)