中国艺术研究院戏曲研究所的科研活动始自1951年至1965年的中国戏曲研究院时期,迄至2012年,经历了六十多年的风风雨雨,更迭变化。其中只有“文革”十年,这个国家级的艺术科研单位受到冲击,集体和个人的学术研究基本停止。在20世纪80年代的一次学术研讨会上,中国戏曲学院的钮骠先生曾提出“前海学派”的称谓。因为当时中国艺术研究院院址在什刹海前海,他说可以把戏曲研究所的学人群体称作“前海学派”。从东四八条到前海西街,再到惠新北里,从地理位置的变迁角度来看,用“前海”称谓来约定这一 Chinese Academy of Arts Research Institute of Opera began its research activities from 1951 to 1965, the Chinese Academy of Drama, as of 2012, experienced sixty years of ups and downs, change. Only “Cultural Revolution” ten years, the state-level art research units under attack, collective and individual academic research basically stopped. At a symposium in the 1980s, Mr. Niu Niu of the Chinese Academy of Opera had proposed the title of “pre-sea school.” Because at that time the China Academy of Art Research Institute was located in the shichahai sea, he said the group of scholars at the drama academy could be called the “Qianhai School.” From Dongsi Baqian to Qianhai West Street, then to Huixin North Lane, from the perspective of the change of geographical location, the term “Qianhai” is used to stipulate this