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What is Pinghua?

Storytelling is a kind of entertainment.

One of the literary genres. Compared with poetry talk and ci talk, Pinghua is a straightforward script that only talks but doesn't sing. Another explanation is that "ping" means "ping Zhang", which means "comment", so he wrote a comment later. Most of the existing China's commentaries in the Song and Yuan Dynasties are long, with historical stories as the main theme, such as Shi Pinghua and Five Kinds of Holographic Commentaries in the Five Dynasties. There is also the only lost article in Journey to the West Pinghua. Yongle Dadian has 26 volumes of Pinghua, which has been lost. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many people wrote comments, some of which were called short story review points, which could be found in books 1 1, books 17, books 65438, books 1, books 17 and books 65438. Now those big books that only talk and don't sing are called storytelling or storytelling in the field of Quyi.

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