The physical form of Huaben novels generally consists of several parts.

The physical form of Huaben novels generally consists of six parts: title, beginning, introduction, chapter, main story and end. Huaben novel is the name of the ancient Chinese novel genre. It is a type of Chinese classical novels. It was popular in the Song and Yuan Dynasties and is also called Song and Yuan Huaben.

Huaben, which means the base of speech, is also called talking or cihua. Storytelling has become a popular entertainment form since the Song Dynasty. Its content is that storytellers tell and sing stories of various themes and types. The original version is called the "Hua Ben", and the Hua Ben can also be read, which is equivalent to a novel in the 21st century.

In the "Washi", a public entertainment venue in cities in the Song Dynasty, there was an activity that focused on telling stories and jokes, namely "speaking". "Speaking" is divided into four categories, namely novels, storytelling Among the four, history, classics and hesheng, novels and history are the most important and have the greatest influence.