《中国戏剧》梅花奖的评选活动已经举办过七次了。每次评选结果揭晓之后,戏剧界人士以及广大热心的观众总要对此评头品足,找出它的特点,仿佛这也是一种享受。今年5月,第七届(1989年度)《中国戏剧》梅花奖评选结果揭晓之后,人们敏锐地发现,此次获奖者有许多是来自基层、德艺双馨的戏剧演员,如长期在河北、河南、山西、陕西等地坚持为广大农民观众演出,并深受农民喜爱的河北省邯郸地区东风豫剧一团的牛淑贤;在江苏省泰州、高邮、兴化、盐城、丹阳等地风餐露宿、走村串镇的江苏省京剧院的黄孝慈;还有山西省临汾地区眉户剧团的许爱英,河南省 “Chinese drama” plum prize selection activities have been held seven times. After each selection result is announced, the theater industry as well as the vast majority of enthusiastic audience always want to comment on this product foot, find out its characteristics, as if this is a pleasure. In May this year, after the results of the plum blossom selection for the “Chinese Drama” (Seventy-ninth) was announced in 1989, many people were acutely aware that many of the winners came from grassroots, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places insist for the majority of farmers audience performance, and deeply loved by farmers Dongfeng Opera in Hebei Province, a group of cattle Shuxian; in Jiangsu Province Taizhou, Gaoyou, Xinghua, Yancheng, Danyang and other places to sleep, take the village Huang Xiaoci of the Peking Opera House in Jiangsu Province, a string town; and Xu Aiying of the Meihu Theater Company in Linfen District of Shanxi Province, Henan Province