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
Storytelling
pinghua, pingshu
評話, 評書
Yangzhou storytelling
Yangzhou pinghua
揚州評話

Di yi hui: Yi, Jingyanggang da hu
第一囘: 一, 景陽崗打虎

Chapter One: 1, Fighting the Tiger on Jingyang Ridge
Performed by Wang Shaotang
Stock phrases used in this version of the story:

不......便罷, ... bu......bian ba, ... if not......that's the end of the story, but...
正是 zheng shi indeed
莫忙 mo mang No hurry!
前人有幾句... qianren you jiju... our forefathers had some lines...
有人要問 you ren yao wen somebody might ask