魏良辅,江苏娄江(太仓)人(明清笔记书籍中误记他是昆山人),祖籍江西。他一生从事戏曲的演唱活动,青年时代,“初习北音”,以后“镂心南曲”,“足迹不下楼十年”,苦心钻研。他不但在当时南北曲盛行的丰富的戏曲演唱活动中,摸索着戏曲演唱的规律与技巧,而且喉音好,自己经常演唱。当时昆曲已经流行,但是还是所谓“杜撰百端,真是胡说”,被文人学士所 Wei Liang Fu, Jiangsu Loujiang (Taicang) people (Ming and Qing dynasties in the book notes that he is Kunshan), ancestral home in Jiangxi. His life engaged in singing opera, youth, “first study North sound”, “Lou heart South song”, “footsteps do not go downstairs ten years”, painstaking research. He not only groped up the rules and techniques of opera singing during the rich opera singing activities prevailing in the North and South Quets, but also sings well and often sings. At that time Kunqu opera has been popular, but still the so-called “cohabitation, is really nonsense,” by the literati bachelor