水磨腔肇始于太仓四百多年前.在太仓这块钟灵毓秀的土地上.被后人尊为“曲圣”的魏良辅和他的伙伴张野塘.创造了流丽悠远、舒徐婉转的水磨腔——昆曲。魏良辅.字尚泉.是江西豫章(今南昌)人。他从小就喜爱戏曲音乐,以春秋时代晋国的著名乐师师旷为榜样,早年擅长北曲.从事戏曲演唱.教学工作.是著名的曲师.有《南词引正》(改本为《曲律》)一书传世。元代及明初.戏曲舞台上都是北曲占统治地位.但北曲粗犷高亢激昂.字多腔少.许多细腻的感情不能表达.于是南曲应运而生.出现了海盐腔、余姚腔.弋阳腔、昆山腔等各种声腔。魏良辅深感北曲的局限性.特地跑到当时称为“六国码头”的太仓.寓居在南码头(即今南郊镇)。这里交通发达.经济繁荣.全国各地的许多剧种都来演出。他“足不下楼十年”.学习研究南曲,选定昆山腔为基础.取南曲.北曲.民歌的优点.创制新腔。 Shuimo cavity began in Taicang four hundred years ago in Taicang, Zhong Ling Yuk Sau on the land by the descendants as “Qu St. ” Wei Liang Fu and his partner Zhang Ye Tong. Created a distant, Shu Shuang mild water mill cavity - Kunqu. Wei Liang Fu. Word Shangquan. Yuzhang Jiangxi (now Nanchang) people. He loved opera music from an early age, taking the example of famous musician Jin Kuang in the Spring and Autumn Period as an example, he was good at North Opera in his early years, engaged in opera singing, and was a famous songwriter. Melody “) a book handed down. The Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty drama stage are North song dominated.But North song rough high-pitched excitement.The word multi-cavity less.Many delicate feelings can not express.So the Nankai came into being.Has Haiyan cavity, Yuyao cavity Yiyang cavity, Kunshan cavity and other sound cavity. Wei Liangfu deeply touched the limitations of Bequ, specially went to Taicang, then called the ”Liuguo Ferry,“ and lived in the South Terminal (now Nanjiao Town). The traffic is developed here, the economy is prosperous, and many theatrical productions all over the country come to the show. He ”never go downstairs ten years. " Learning to study the South song, selected Kunshan cavity as the basis .Can take the South song .Beiqu song. Advantages of folk songs .Create a new cavity.