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The discussion tried to probe the previous existence and later ages of"Goulan Theatre"with the main clue as the first city popular business theatre of Chinese ancient to restoring the completely Goulan Theatre architecture model. In its course of rose,declined and lost, Goulan Theatre not only embodied the progress and development of Chinese traditional opera, and also embodied Chinese architecture art and culture, which is significant part of our traditional art spirit.The first part discuss the initial theatre space of traditional Chinese opera perform before Goulan Theatre birth. Because of different social status between audience and performer, Chinese ancient theatre space firstly appeared the audience area , after that was perform area with richer play, finally formed city square playing mode in Han Dynasty. In Sui and Tang Dynasty, with Buddhism rising and worldly temple fair was the main form of trade plaza, many different popular perform in which. And then city popular theatre was born around temple, which was the important prerequisite for the birth of Goulan Theatre.The second part focused the birth and development of Goulan Theatre. Because of the North Song Dynasty comfortable political environment and rapid development of economic strength make a folk Goulan Washe birth. Through the discussion on the geographical position of Goulan washe, architecture structure of Goulan Theatre and perform contents, we believed it was mature symbol of Chines ancient city professional theatre development. Goulan Theare represented the height of city culture development. It provided good environment for Chinese opera to development and spread. It also provided reliable model to the appearance of more professional theatre in later ages.The third part is the history meaning of Goulan Theatre. In the special social circumstances of the Ming Dynasty, Goulan Theatre faced with many interior and exterior defects gradually declined and lost, and later it became the popular name of brothel at that time.Meanwhile as the changes of times city popular theatre no longer confined to one kind of single performance mode, appeared lots kinds of performance modes, such as guild hall performance and restaurant performance. With those historical changes, Goulan Theatre was the important transition in Chinese ancient theatre development course, represented Chinese ancient performance space from open wide to seal. It was the changes of Chinese ancient performance art from aristocratic to popular. It was also final embody of our tradition art spirit from Confucianism to ZhuangZi Theory.Just as Chinese traditional opera Chinese ancient theatre space carried forward Chinese people deep historical culture origins and art spirit build. After many thousandths of feudal imperial court, great change has taken place in perform circumstances and its relational social operation. The discussion tried to find the necessity and covered real spirit pillar of the long history about Goulan Theatre existence with its epitome from the rising to losing on macroscopic starting point.