Written genres for performance and readingshumiande 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
Drumtales
dagushu
大鼓書
Written genres for performance and reading| Northern Song | The chaotic society of Northern Song and the corruption at court |
| Heroes of Mount Liang | The Water Margin heroes |
| Wu Song and Wu the Elder | The background of the brothers, Wu the Elder and Wu Song |
| Fighting the Five Tigers | Wu Song destroys a group of local despots called the Five Tigers in the Dong Family Temple in Shandong |
| Flight from home | Wu Songs flight from his home town |
| Staying with Chai Jin | Wu Song meets Song Jiang at Chai jin's manor |
| Wu Dalang in trouble | Wu Dalang narrowly escapes punishment on behalf of Wu Song who has slain the burglars in Dong Family Village and left his hometown |
| The flight of Wu Dalang and his wife | Because of a drought Wu Dalang and his wife flee from home and settle in a town close to Ximen Qing’s mansion |
| The letter from home | Wu Song receives news from his brother and decides to travel home |
| The tavern | Wu Song rests in a tavern, drinking a strong wine |
| The proclamation | The official warning about the tiger, pasted to a temple wall |
| The tiger appears | The tiger appears |
| Breaking the staff | Aiming for the tiger with his staff, Wu Song (misses and) breaks it |
| The fighting | The fighting between man and beast |
| The killing | The tiger is killed |
| Two tigers | As Wu Song is on his way down the ridge, two tigers come out from the brushes |
| The hunters | Hunters (dressed in tiger's fur) meet Wu Song |