The Situational Variation and Aesthetic Features of Chinese Traditional Drama

As a specific name, Chinese traditional drama appeared in the 1960s, which specifically refers to the reserved plays of various traditional dramas that coexisted with modern dramas and newly edited historical dramas before the foundation of New China. Traditional drama has aesthetic characteristics such as freehand, stylization, singing and dancing, and it has profoundly affected the aesthetic taste of the Chinese people because of its rich spiritual and aesthetic accumulation.

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