The art of comedy originated in

Comedy is a type of drama, based on the different objects and techniques of depiction, can be divided into satirical comedy, lyrical comedy, absurd comedy and farce and other styles.

"Comedy" has two meanings: one is a category of aesthetics, and the other is a form of art. As an art form of "comedy", there are broad and narrow sense. Broadly speaking, "comedy" refers to comedy in drama, novels with comedy, poetry, jokes, humorous stories, as well as music, cartoons and other forms of art, while narrowly speaking, "comedy" refers only to comedy in drama. The earliest European comedy is the ancient Greek comedy, the representative writer is Aristophanes; 16th and 17th centuries to Shakespeare, Molière on behalf of the 18th century Italian Goldoni and France's Beaumarchais is the representative of the European Enlightenment period of comedy; 19th century to the Russian Gogol on behalf of the Russian.

The performance characteristics of Chinese drama are gradually formed in history.

Chinese opera originated in the Song Dynasty, and the name "opera" was first mentioned in the Song and Yuan dynasty by Liu Ocarina (1240--1319) in his Shuiyun Village manuscript, which is entitled "Biography of the Lyricist Wu Yu": "In the Xianchun period, the Yongjia opera came out, and the young people who were transformed into the opera became obscene. After the young man was transformed into a young man, the obscene wow was abundant, and the correct tone was rested." The word "opera" refers to the song of the opera. Although the word "opera" has appeared as early as in the Song and Yuan, but it is not commonly used in ancient times, and often use "song", "music", "drama drama ", "lyrics" and so on, or respectively, the use of "southern opera", "miscellaneous dramas", "legends

The Yuan Dynasty (1912-1926), which was the first to use the word "opera", "opera" and "legend".

Yuan miscellaneous dramas were developed on the basis of the Song official miscellaneous dramas and the Jin courtyard books. Yuan dynasty comedy is not only the first peak of Chinese classical comedy creation, but also represents the highest level of Chinese classical comedy creation. In the history of Chinese opera, the achievement, value and influence of Yuan Dynasty comedy are manifold. Whether in the southern opera or in miscellaneous operas, the comedy writing with a more elegant style, showing a unique charm. Among them, the achievement of comedy creation in Yuan's miscellaneous dramas is more remarkable. In the Yuan miscellaneous dramas, nearly a thousand years in the accumulation of the tradition of comedy has been fully played and performance, excellent comedy works

Yuan miscellaneous dramas in comedy is the embodiment of people's victory over evil, fighting for a normal life of confidence. It abandons the performance style of Song miscellaneous dramas and Jin Yuanben's comical jokes and gags, and takes the construction of comedic conflicts and the shaping of comedic characters as its main theme. In this way, it has the same artistic value and aesthetic achievement as tragedy. The masterpieces of Yuan Dynasty comedies (the Four Great Comedies) are Guan Hanqing's The Pavilion of the Worshiping Moon, Wang Shifu's The Story of the Western Wing, Bai Park's On the Horse on the Wall, and Zheng Guangzu's The Sinful Maiden's Soul. Guan Hanqing's other famous comedies are Wangjiang Pavilion, Save the Dust, and so on.