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What is the name of the Southern Song Dynasty art performance venue?

Washe-urban commercial recreation area, also known as Wazi and Washi. The performance venue set up in Wache is called Goulan, also called Goulan, Goulan Goulan, which means winding railing. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, especially the performance shed set up in Wache. Become a popular custom. The laundry room is very large, and there are more than a dozen fences in the big laundry room.

The construction of Goulan draws lessons from some characteristics of the temple stage at that time, setting up the stage and sacred buildings, and considering the placement of the audience, it is a fully enclosed shape, starting from all sides and capped at the top, and the performance can be performed without considering the influence of climate and season. There is a performance stage above the ground with a music bed. Then the theater. The passage from the theater to the stage is called "ancient doorway" or "ghost doorway", which means upper and lower doors. On the other side, the audience lifts up layer by layer from the inside out, which is called the waist shed. Among them, the stands facing the stage and in a higher position are also called the sacred building. There is also one of the best seats in the audience called Qinglongtou, which is located near the next door on the left side of the stage. Goulan implements commercial performance mode and sells tickets to the outside world. Its appearance marks the formal formation of China's plays. After more than 400 years in Northern Song Dynasty, Jin Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. During this period, the performance venue of China drama was mainly Goulan Washe, supplemented by the temple fair theater.