"The biggest flaw of the model operas was the mistaken conception behind their creation that all art was in the service of politics, but the creative reworking they called for artistically was something new," Xi Zhigan says.
「樣板戲的主要缺點是創作思想錯誤，一切為政治服務，但是它在藝術上提倡的『二度創作』卻是空前的」，習志淦說。