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
Storytelling
pinghua, pingshu
評話, 評書
Fuzhou storytelling
Fuzhou pinghua
福州平話
Written genres for performance and reading| 白 | bai | speaking |
| 話表 | hua biao | the story we are performing |
| 書歸正傳說分明 | shu gui zhengzhuan shuo fenming | now our saga returns to the true story and we shall tell it clearly |
| 按下漫表 | anxia man biao | let us postpone this and take our time to perform the story |
| 單說 | dan shuo | let us now tell only |
| 只聽 | zhi ting | just listen |
| 不表...再說 | bu biao...zai shuo | I will not perform...but I will tell |
| 且說 | qie shuo | meanwhile let us tell |
| 這章事情按一筆 | zhezhang shiqing an yi bi | let us postpone the chapter about these events |
| 一時之人說不盡 | yi shi zhi ren shuobujin | I cannot mention all these persons here and now |
| 迅速光陰半月多 | xunsu guangyin banyue duo | soon half a month had passed |