Chinese Storytelling Research Database
The Wu Song Project
Genre definition:     Written genres for reading
shumian duwuxingde zhonglei
書面讀物性的種類
Plaintale
Pinghua
平話

Xuanhe yishi
宣和遺事

Legends of the Xuanhe Reign
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Stock phrases used in this version of the story:

有詩云 you shi yun There is a poem as follows:
詠史有一詩云 yong shi you yi shi yun Among historical poems there is one as follows:
詩云 shi yun The poem as follows:
遂成詩云 sui cheng shi yun Then she made a poem as follows:
上唸詩二句云 shang yin shi er ju yun First she recited two lines of a poem as follows:
後有人一詩云 hou you ren yi shi yun Later generations had a poem about it as follows:
後有人唸詩一首云 hou you ren nian shi yishou yun Later generations recited a poem about it as follows:
有詠史詩一首云 you yong shi shi yi shou yun There is one historical poem about it as follows:
有感而賦詩一首 you gan er fu shi yi shou Overcome with emotion he dedicated a poem:
詞曰 ci yue the song poem says
作小詞自述云 Zuo xiao ci zi shu yun She made a small lyric and recited it as follows:
口占一詞道 Kou zhan yi ci dao She recited a lyric saying:
遂作歌曰 sui zuo ge yue Then he made a song saying:
後再歌曰 hou zai ge yue Thereafter still another song saying:
賞獻一詩 shangxian yi shi He offered a poem:
後有人一詩道 hou you ren yi shi dao Later generations had a poem about it which says:
有詩為証 you shi wei zheng there is a poem in proof of this
詩曰 shi yue the poem says
道是 dao shi It said:
可謂是 ke wei shi It might be called:
真個是 zhenge shi That was truly:
真是 zhen shi Truly:
却是 que shi It was really: