The second approach tries to attract young audiences by reworking old operas or creating new historical operas. This school combines techniques and concepts from modern drama with adaptations of traditional operatic scores. "The method and conception is very modern," Xi says. "Very traditional operas can still be made very modern."
二是為爭取年輕觀眾而作的改良戲或新編歷史劇，也就是用現代劇場的手法與理念對傳統戲曲做一些修正與改變，「手法思想是現代，很古典的戲也可以做得很現代化」，習志淦覺得《阿Ｑ正傳》是屬於這個範疇。