一、潮剧是南戏的活化石萧遥天在1948年撰写《潮州志戏剧音乐志》的时候,在明本潮州戏文尚未出土的条件下,通过考察正音戏、西秦戏、外江戏、秧歌、关戏童、倒掉吹手、傀儡戏、纸影戏、舞狮等戏曲元素的基础上,断定潮剧的前生为正音戏这一正确结论,而正音戏即宋元南戏之遗响,这一研究突破潮剧历史资料只可追溯到清代中叶的局限。 First, the opera is a living fossil Nanxi opera Xiao Tian Tian wrote “Chaozhou Zhi opera musical” in 1948, in the Ming Dynasty Chaozhou opera has not been unearthed under the conditions, through the study Zhengyin opera, Western Qin opera, foreign opera, Yangko, On the basis of opera elements, such as the opera house, the dramatis personae, the puppet theater, the paper shadow play, the lion dance and so on, it is concluded that the ancestral opera of the opera was the correct conclusion of the orthophonic opera. Chao Chao historical data can only be traced back to the limitations of the middle of the Qing Dynasty.