徽剧是古老剧种之一。它有相当丰富的剧目与比较优美的舞台艺术,在我国南北戏曲的发展上,它起了承上启下的作用。不仅京剧是在它的基础上演变出来的,即南方各省的地方戏曲也大都和它多少有些血缘关系,影响所及几乎是遍于全国了。它的发展情况是这样的:明朝中叶,南方流行的戏曲主要是海盐、余姚、弋阳、昆山诸腔,而皖南池州、太平一带则为余姚腔盛行之地。江西的弋阳腔渐渐向外发展,嘉靖时正当商业资本主义初步抬头,而徽州又是江南第一个 Hui drama is one of the ancient operas. It has quite a rich repertoire and relatively beautiful stage art. In the development of the opera in both North and South of China, it played a role of linking up and opening up. Not only is Peking Opera evolved from its foundation, that is, most of the local operas in the southern provinces also have some kinship with it, and the influence is almost throughout the country. Its development is as follows: In the middle Ming dynasty, the operas in the south were mainly Haiyan, Yuyao, Yiyang and Kunshan, while the southern part of Chizhou and Taiping belonged to Yuyao Cavity. Yiyang chamber in Jiangxi gradually outward development, Jiajing legitimate commercial capitalism initially rise, and Huizhou is the first Jiangnan