早期南戏的作者为民间艺人或下层文人,其所撰剧本的曲文、念白广泛吸收了当时社会流行的谚语、俗语及格言、警语等,不仅有力增强了舞台表演效果,更向普通民众传授了他们所需的生活伦理,切实发挥了戏曲“人生教科书”的社会作用。《永乐大典戏文三种》作为现存早期南戏的代表性作品,其引用民间谚语、格言的现象十分引人瞩目。而这些精辟警拔的语句又见于宋元以来一些世俗道德教育读物如《增广贤文》、《事林广记》中“警世格言”等。对照考察早期南戏中谚语、格言与《增广贤文》等读物内容相同相近情况,可以从一个独特角度梳理、归结出宋元民间社会所推重的一些生活伦理价值,洞察早期南戏社会教化的实际内容,从而加深理解民间生活伦理与早期南戏创作之间的互动关系。 The early South opera’s author was a folk artist or a lower literati. The melodies and the narratives of the script written by him widely absorbed the prevailing proverbs, idioms, proverbs and warnings of the time, which not only greatly enhanced the performance of the stage performance, but also imparted to the general public The life ethics they needed, and effectively played the social role of drama “life textbook ”. As the representative works of the early existing Nanxi opera, “Yongle Daqun Xiwen Wenzhu” cites folk proverbs and aphorisms, which attract people’s attention. These incredibly vigilant statements are also found in some secular moral education books since the Song and Yuan Dynasties such as “Guangxian Yinwen”, “Lin Guangji”, “Aphrodisiac” and so on. The comparative study of proverbs, motto and reading materials such as Zeng Guang Xian Wen in the early stage of South Opera can be summarized from a unique perspective and some of the life ethical values ​​advocated by the civil society in the Song and Yuan Dynasties have been summed up to reveal the reality of the socialization of early Nanxi opera Content, so as to deepen the understanding of the interaction between folk life ethics and early South Opera creation.