当楚调正在兴盛时，特别在长江南北两岸。此时农民起义形成高潮：李自成攻占北京，张献忠在长江上、中游长驱直入，占领了明王朝的半壁河山。进驻惠王府的张献忠对歌妓深表同情，收留军中。攻下楚王府后，对全体男女歌妨百余人，采取了愿回家或愿搭戏班谋生，任其选择的办法， When the Chu tune is flourishing, especially on both sides of the Yangtze River. At this point peasant uprising climaxed: Li Zicheng captured Beijing, Zhang Xianzhong on the Yangtze River, the middle reaches drove straight into the occupation of the Ming dynasty half. Zhang Xianzhong stationed in the Huifu house deep sympathy for the geisha, retained the military. After the capture of the Chu Palace, all the men and women of Song Huai Bai Hundreds of people, has taken the willingness to go home or is willing to take the troupe to make a living, to choose their own way,