昆曲的源头、历史和可持续发展——读评《昆曲之路》

The Sources,History and Sustainable Development of Kunqu Opera——Comment on "The Way of Kunqu Opera"

昆曲被推崇为"中国戏曲的活化石",已有600多年的历史,因其具有工丽典雅、浓郁醇厚等艺术特点,故研究者甚多。在此基础上,杨守松历时5年之久,磨出了《昆曲之路》,有三个成就:一是将昆曲的源头追溯到唐代的黄幡绰;二是以最大的篇幅论述了新中国成立至今60年间昆曲的三起两落;三是回答了昆曲如何可持续发展,提出了必须实行五大互补:实行传承和创新互补、正规训练与业余培训后继人才互补、编剧创作和昆曲研究互补、政府对昆曲的支持和民间对昆曲的赞助互补、大陆弘扬昆曲与台港及海外华裔和外国人弘扬昆曲互补。《昆曲之路》实现了学术价值与现实价值的统一,为今后的昆曲研究者提供了很好的借鉴。

Kunqu Opera, which has been regarded as a living fossil of Chinese operas, has a history of 600 years. Because of its elegant, mellow beauty of art characters, many scholars have great interest to study it. On the basis of the research of it, Yang Shou-song spends five years working on the book ＂The Way of Kunqu Opera＂. The three prominent achievements of ＂The Way of Kunqu Opera＂ are： 1. tracing the sources of Kunqu opera back to Huang Fan - chuo in the Tang Dynasty; 2. description of Kunqu opera＇s three rises and falls during 60 years after the founding of new China; 3. giving the answer of Kunqu opera＇s sustainable development and indicating the five mutual complementaries of Kunqu opera＇s development. ＂The Way of Kunqu Opera＂ integrates the value of academic with the value of reality, which offers the experience for the future Kunqu scholars in their study of Kunqu opera.