有人说写给下里巴人看的戏曲,就要以俗为本,不能故作高深。群众看戏要一看就懂,到嘴到肚。实践证明从杂剧到传奇,文人留下的本子,多为案头之作,而被大众看懂的,能流传下来的,并非文辞艰深,立意高远之类。因此得出结论,戏曲乃“俗人俗事之俗物,大众之唱乐也”。这种观点贯穿百年,解放后更是强化了这种认识。并且指出这种俗的认定,不是庸俗的俗,而是通俗易懂的俗,还是雅俗共赏的俗,甚至说它是“唯大俗方能大雅”之俗。 Some people say that the drama written for the people of Lower East Asia should follow the tradition of vulgarity and can not pretend to be profound. People read the show to understand, to the mouth to the belly. Practice has proved that from the Zaju to the legend, the scholars leave the book, mostly for the desk, and the public can understand, can be handed down, not rhetoric, ambitious and the like. Therefore, the conclusion is that drama is “folk custom vulgar thing, the public singing ”. This view runs through the centuries and is even strengthened after the liberation. And pointed out that the vulgar determination, not vulgar vulgar, but easy-to-understand custom, or the vulgar tastes of vulgar, even saying that it is “the only big vulgar square can”.