从梵剧的蜕变看唐代民间戏乐表演市场对戏剧艺术的双重作用

唐代经济文化繁荣，民间的戏乐表演活动十分活跃，然而，起源于印度，当时已发育成熟的梵剧却未能以其完整的形态传入中国，而是在东渐的途中逐步蜕化成一种与之既有密切联系又有较大差异的新艺术样式——唐代寺院里的俗讲。这种韵散结合、或讲唱或咏唱的叙事性的说唱艺术，对后世中华戏曲的诞生有着直接的影响和作用。据此，笔者认为其时唐代的戏剧艺术尚未发育成熟，真正独立意义上的戏剧市场尚未形成，建立在中国传统审美习惯与审美能力基础之上的民间戏乐表演市场对戏剧艺术具有双重作用，即对东渐的梵剧艺术的制约作用和对唐代初级形态戏剧艺术的促进作用。

Dual Effect of Folk Opera Performance Market in Tang Dynasty--Seen from Metamorphosis of the Sanskrit

Due to economic and cultural prosperity, the folk art of opera performance is very active in Tang Dynasty. Because drama art at that time had not reached maturity yet, the genuine drama market has not taken shape. Folk opera performance market on the basis of Chinese traditional aesthetic tendency and ability performs two functions: the facilitation to drama art of the elementary form, and restriction on the Sanskrit art's gradually entering China.