就演出空间的认识而言,似乎今人与古人大不同,我们往往显得拘谨,而古人却远比我们开放。特别是西方镜框式舞台输入之后,它既在实际上几乎横扫了戏曲原来的三面观甚至四面观的演出空间形态,似乎也在一定程度上拘束了我们的手脚,重要的还可能局限了我们的思维,影响了我们对古代演出空间的探索,使得我们对演出空间的认知倒退了。这里我们使用“空间”这个词汇,而没有使用更为人们所熟悉的“剧场”、“舞台”等词语,原因在于“剧 As far as performance space is concerned, it seems that modern people are greatly different from the ancients. We tend to be cautious while the ancients are far more open than we are. Especially after the input of the Western mirror-type stage, it virtually practically swept away the original three-dimensional or even four-dimensional performance space of the opera and seemed to restrain our hands and feet to a certain extent, and importantly may also limit our Thinking has affected our exploration of the space for ancient performances, making our cognition of performance space retrogression. Here we use the term ”space“ rather than the more familiar phrase like ”theater“, ”stage“, because ”