Chinese Storytelling

Chinese Storytelling

Sagas of Storytelling

Water Margin


  1. Water Margin - Shuihu

  2. Wu Song Fights the Tiger
    - told by Wang Shaotang

  3. Wu Song Fights the Tiger
    - told by Wang Xiaotang

  4. Pan Jinlian and Wu the Elder
    - told by Ren Jitang

  5. Swordplay under the Moon
    - told by Hui Zhaolong


 

 

Wu Song Fights the Tiger

told by Wang Shaotang

Introduction: For the last year Wu Song has taken refugee in the home of a rich and generous landlord, Chai Jin, because he has been involved in a case of murder, or so he thinks. News from home reveal that the person didn’t die after all, and Wu Song is eager to return home to see his elder brother, his only relative. After some days on the road he arrives one evening in Jingyang town and enters the local inn, where the young waiter Xiao’er, Little Secundus, serves him the good wine called Three Bowls and You Cannot Cross the Ridge. This is how Wang Shaotang began his tale for Nanjing Radio in 1961:

Wang Shaotang Audiofile (181 kbps)
Wang Shaotang text