最近,笔者在上海戏剧学院给来自全国各地的学员讲了一次课,下课后,有一位学员走过来,感叹道:“在我们那里,非遗项目是不允许谈创新的。”这种说法,笔者已经不是第一次听到了,因此觉得在这个问题上可能有一点认识上的片面性,值得探讨。多年前,笔者曾经提出一个观点:“传统是相对的,创新是绝对的”。我们应该怎样理解传统呢?就木偶戏而言,它是比中国戏曲还要古老得多的,其 Recently, I taught classmates from all over the country at the Shanghai Theater Academy. After the get out of class, a trainee came over and exclaimed: “In our project, non-Chinese items are not allowed to talk about innovation.” To say the author is not the first time I heard, so I think there may be a little understanding of this issue is worth discussing. Years ago, I once made a point: “Tradition is relative and innovation is absolute.” How should we understand the tradition? For puppet shows, it is much older than Chinese opera, which