Chinese Storytelling Research Database
The Wu Song Project
Genre definition:     Written genres for performance and reading
shumiande biaoyan diben yu duwuxingde zhonglei
書面的表演底本與讀物性的種類
Performance literature
shuochang wenxue
說唱文學
Manchu gentry tales / Fast tales
zidishu/kuaishu
子弟書/快書



Wu Song da hu
武松打虎

Wu Song Fights the Tiger

Textual Unit for this story :   囘  hui   session, chapter,

In the present kuaishu [fast tale] there is no mention of textual unit, but extra-textual evidence indicates that the unit of this genre should also be considered a hui. In other pieces of kuaishu one finds occasionally the stock phrases biao yi hui 表一回[let me perform in this session] or shuo yi hui 說一回 [let me tell in this session], cf Chen Jinzhao 1982: 260, 278.