A Study of Culture of Court Theatre during the Qing Dynasty

随着满族人扩大对中国的统治，并在东亚建立了欧亚帝国--满族帝国，他们在他们占领的地区重新处理了各种形式的传统文化，并将其用作国家统治的工具。在戏剧方面，礼仪元素被添加到与娱乐相关的元素中，并作为一种新的礼乐形式在中国内外得到推广，不同于儒家的古典礼乐。这是清代的宫廷剧场，它与在省会城市和农村上演的带有强烈宗教仪式色彩的民间戏剧在性质上不同。

As the Manchus extended their rule over China and built up the Manchu empire (Daicing gurun), a Eurasian empire, in East Asia, they reprocessed various forms of traditional culture in the regions they occupied and used them as instruments of state rule. In the case of the theatre, ritual elements were added to elements associated with entertainment, and it came to be promoted both inside and outside China as a new form of ritual music, differing from the classical ritual music of Confucianism. This was the court theatre of the Qing, and it differed in character from the folk plays, with their strong tinges of religious rites, that were performed in provincial cities and throughout the countryside.