一、小引:戏曲结构理论浮出水面中国的戏曲理论研究始于元代。起初只是着眼于音律(如燕南芝庵的《唱论》,全文仅27条1000多字)和剧目的研究,并且都是从元杂剧作为切入点的。毫无疑问,这些数量有限而纯属草创式的研究远远落后于其时丰富多彩的元杂剧创作实际。明洪武三十一年(公元1398年),自朱权(朱元璋 A small reference: the theory of opera structure surfaced Chinese drama theory began in the Yuan Dynasty. At first, it only focused on the temperament (such as “Singing Theory” of Zhinan in Yannan, the full text is only 27 words and more than 1,000 words) and the study of the play, all of which started with the Yuan drama. Undoubtedly, these limited and purely grass-roots research lags far behind the actual creation of Yuan Dynasty’s colorful and diverse drama. Hongwu thirty-one years (AD 1398), since the right Zhu (Zhu Yuanzhang