Kabuki is a typical national performing art in Japan, which originated in the early Edo period in the17th century, and has been preserved for nearly 400 years together with energy and madness.

The ancestor of kabuki is Ako, a beautiful woman known to Japanese women and children. She is a witch of Izumo Society in Shimane Prefecture (that is, unmarried young women who specialize in playing music and praying in shrines). In order to repair the shrine, Chizi went out to raise money. She set up a theater shed in downtown Kyoto and performed "Buddhist Dance". This is a religious dance, but Grandpa changed the old routine and created Teahouse Owner. A Gong dressed as a woman, dressed in black, with a black turban and a red scarf around his waist, hung an ancient musical instrument, a bronze pheasant and a Japanese knife. Handsome and handsome, the boss fell in love at first sight. Grandpa also improvised humorous plots in real life during his performance, which caused a sensation. A Yuan's innovative "Dance of reciting Buddha" has been enriched and perfected, and gradually became a unique performing art from folk to court.

The word kabuki is borrowed from Chinese characters. Before the name was corrected, it originally meant "tilt" because there was a strange movement during the performance. Later, it was nicknamed "Kabuki": Song, representing music; Dancing is dancing; Words mean skill.

Actresses from all over Japan followed the example of Afghanistan and competed to perform kabuki. Some samurai fight for actresses and even kill each other. 1629, the Tokugawa shogunate banned kabuki performances on charges of corrupting customs. It was not until 1653 that men were allowed to perform "Wild Lang Kabuki", and the female role was played by men, which was called "female shape", that is, Dan Jiao. After 1670, this kind of performance increased, and with the appearance of the script, the content, plot and expression techniques became more mature. 1751-1801year is the heyday of kabuki. In the next 30 years, kabuki completed the typification, individualization and artistry of role performance, and the performance procedures were also fixed. Kabuki actors are hereditary. Actors and sons, generation after generation. At that time, kabuki became a popular performing art with Edo (now Tokyo), Osaka and Kyoto as the center. By the Meiji era in the19th century, this traditional Japanese art has increasingly become a classical drama.

There are roughly two kinds of kabuki themes: one is to describe the world of nobles and warriors, and the other is to express people's lives. There are four kinds of plays: "Dr. Yi" talks nonsense and performs funny story plays through dance; The madness of "Things of the Times" is a historical drama. "Things in the World" is crazy, describing the life and love stories of ordinary people; A dance drama called "What Do You Do" is a crazy drama, which involves the morality of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, and educates second-class citizens on the morality of diligence, doing good and punishing evil.

At present, kabuki is more popular than any classical drama in Japan, and many new plays and works have been produced in recent years. Kabuki and Chinese Peking Opera are known as "sisters of oriental art tradition". Huang Zunxian, a poet in the late Qing Dynasty, praised in "Japanese Miscellaneous Poems": "Dance begins, jade rustles, iron plates stop knocking, how many infatuated children cry, play together and watch chrysanthemums together." He regards kabuki as "meeting an old friend in a foreign land".