What is the reason that the ancient people think that the playwright is lowly

The playwright is an old Chinese word for a person who is commonly known as an opera singer.

Yu-ling is the combined name of "Yu" and "伶", which was used to refer to those who performed music, singing, laughing and mocking, and who performed a variety of acrobatic plays and operas as their profession. opera performances, etc. as a profession.

The use of "You" as an occupational name was established in the Spring and Autumn period. What is "You"? "You, molestation is also." "You, the name of the play is also ...... play for the ridiculous words, and people's laughter." This shows that the so-called "excellent", its original meaning is a kind of laughing and teasing behavior, specializing in this kind of behavior is also called "excellent".

"伶" is the name given to the legendary music official of the Yellow Emperor's era, Linglun, a legendary musician, rumor has it that the Yellow Emperor had ordered him to make the music, so the later generation will specialize in playing the music of a class of artists known as "伶人", or as "

The first of all, the first of all, the first of all, the first of all, the first of all.

Pre-Qin period, "excellent" and "伶" has not been linked into a word, there is a difference between the two, "excellent" is generally divided into "haiku" and "advocate of excellent "and" advocate of excellence "," haiku "refers to a class of artists to wit and ridicule for people's pleasure;" advocate of excellence "refers to the song and dance, playing music a class of artists; and" 伶". The term "伶" is used to refer to artists who play music.

In the Han Dynasty, "You" and "伶" began to be called together, and became the song and dance, music and a hundred theater comics for the industry of artists. After the Song Dynasty, with the gradual maturation of the art of opera, the term "You Ling" was mainly used to refer to opera performers.

Ancient opera is a very complex art system, its mature art form and art system includes at least the following four aspects: Song and Yuan southern opera, Yuan miscellaneous drama, Ming and Qing legends and local theater. And the people who interpreted these forms of repertoire were the yu-ling, or playwrights.

You-ling is a product of slavery, created as an entertainment tool for the ruler, you-ling is the vassal of the slave master, according to history, ancient slave masters have a special love for song and dance. Legend has it that Qi, the first slave owner in ancient China, was one such figure who loved music and dance for pleasure. He often drank wine in the wild and brought many of his slaves to sing and dance for him in order to cheer him up.

After the Qin and Han dynasties, the yu-ling was no longer just a monopoly of the monarch and the aristocracy, but also began to perform for the general public, and the industry gradually took shape.

Because of the dullness of the court music, some nobles began to recruit folk artists, and began to keep the eloquent performers for their sound and color entertainment. The content of the performances of the Yu-ling also broke through the nature of pure song and dance, into a stronger storytelling. Since then, in the years when there were relatively fewer wars, there were more people involved in the Yu-ling business.