Both art and culture: Going back to origins, the theater started up as a place for religious ceremonies, and its music cannot be separated from religious activities. Its works only gradually came into the interests of the literati, and its independent development as a purely artistic mode of performance was a later affair.
追本溯源，劇場原本就起於宗教祭祀，而戲曲也無法和宗教活動分開；創作漸漸走入文人案頭，獨立發展出純藝術層次的戲曲表演則是後來的事。