Further, Communist Chinese policy includes guidelines for altering scripts, requiring that "terrifying or degenerate feudalistic elements be abandoned; that barbaric, terrifying, obscene or superstitious monstrous images be expunged.
此外，中共政策亦明定有劇本改革方針，要「拋棄劇目內容的恐怖、下流的封建類，清除舊戲中野蠻、恐怖、猥褻、迷信的醜惡形象……」。