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What does this novel mean?

The vernacular novel is the genre name of China's ancient novels. It belongs to one of China's classical novels, which was popular in Song and Yuan Dynasties, also known as Song and Yuan Scripts. Storytelling book means the basic book of speaking, also called storytelling. Since the Song Dynasty, storytelling has become popular as an entertainment form. Its content is that storytellers tell and sing stories of various themes, and the basic book of its singing content is called "storytelling book". The script can also be read, which is equivalent to the novel of 2 1 century.

In the popular entertainment place "Wa Temple" in the Song Dynasty, there is an activity that mainly tells stories and jokes, that is, "talking". There are four kinds of "speaking", which are novels, history, classics and sharing. Among these four schools, novels and storytelling are the most important and influential. The novels we are talking about actually include novels of the Song Dynasty and historical narratives.

At that time, with the prosperity of commodity economy and the sharp increase of urban population, popular folk literature also got unprecedented development in the Song Dynasty. The vernacular novel is the representative of folk literature in Song Dynasty. This kind of novel story is the basis of artists' "speaking" in Song and Yuan Dynasties, and it is a literary form developed with the help of folk "speaking" skills.