The Relationship between Song Dynasty Scripts and Ancient Vernacular Novels

"Telling history" was originally one of the four greatest speakers in Song Dynasty, and its characteristic was telling historical stories. Although Historical Romance in Song Dynasty is divided into volumes and sub-titles, the title of the paragraphs is not clear.

The original intention of "storytelling" is to include all scripts of all speaking arts. The scripts of short stories and novels are called "storytelling", which is not just short stories as it is now. The earliest vernacular novels are the original stories of folk speakers, that is, "story books". Some of these words were created by the artists who spoke, and some were written by the lower-class literati who were called "gifted scholars in the book club".

Storybook is actually a vernacular novel in Song Dynasty, which developed from the legend of Tang Dynasty. "Telling history" refers to its story type.

In the Song Dynasty, due to the development of urban economy and the growth of citizen class, "Shuo" became more and more prosperous. In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were four schools of theory, that is, artists were divided into four schools, each of which said the subject matter of their specialty. The so-called "each has its own family" and "each keeps its own name". In the Qing Dynasty, Zhai Hao and his best friend Hu Shiying were divided into four categories: novels, warriors, classics (including references) and history, based on the four appearances of "Shi Ru" and "Shi Ru" in the book Jingshi Jisheng written by Ned Weng in the Southern Song Dynasty.