Written genres for readingshumian duwuxingde zhonglei
書面讀物性的種類
Novel
zhanghui xiaoshuo
章回小說
Written genres for reading| 詞曰 | ci yue | the song poem says |
| 史官有詩歎曰 | shiguan you shi tan yue | a historian made a poem bewailing the event |
| 單說 | dan shuo | let us now tell only |
| 有詩為証 | you shi wei zheng | there is a poem in proof of this |
| 說話的 | shuohuade | storyteller |
| 正是 | zheng shi | indeed |
| 話說 | hua shuo | The story says |
| 但見 | dan jian | behold/ one only saw |
| 有(一)篇古風(一篇)單道 | you (yi)pian gu feng (yipian) dan dao | there is an old ballad describing it |
| 按下 XX 單表 XX | anxia X X dan biao X X | let us postpone X X, and let us now perform X X |
| 古人有幾句格言說的好 | guren you jiju geyan, shuode hao | our forefathers had an admonition expressing this well |
| 且說 | qie shuo | meanwhile let us tell |
| 看官聽說 | kanguan tingshuo | Dear audience, as you may have heard |
| 卻說 | que shuo | let us resume our story |
| 話休絮煩 | hua xiu xufan | Let's not go into boring detail |
| 畢竟未知後來何如且聽下回分解 | bijing weizhi houlai he ru qie ting xiahui fenjie | if you do really not know what happened next, please listen to the explanation in the following session (chapter) |
| 說時遲﹐那時快 | shuo shi chi, na shi kuai shuo shi chi, na shi kuai | it's slow in the telling, but happens in a flash |
| 有話即長﹐ 無話即短 | you hua ji chang, wu hua ji duan | when there is a story to tell it is long; when there is no story to tell it is short |