1941年,在抗日战争烽火连天的年代,在革命圣地延安成立了延安平剧院。毛泽东同志给该院庆贺成立的题词,提出了“推陈出新”戏曲改革的总方针。这一方针具有深刻的理论内涵和历史依据。揭示提出这一总方针的历史依据,对于我们深入地了解它所包藏的深刻的理论内涵将是有益的。自1840年到十九世纪末叶,在某些受帝国 In 1941, in the era of the war of resistance against Japan, Yan’an Ping Theater was established in Yan’an, the revolutionary shrine. Comrade Mao Zedong celebrated the establishment of the hospital inscription, put forward the “general innovation” drama reform general principle. This guideline has profound theoretical connotation and historical basis. To reveal the historical basis for putting forward this general guideline will be helpful for us to understand deeply its profound theoretical content. From 1840 to the end of the nineteenth century, in some of the empires