Interpretation of postgraduate entrance examination terms: Sanqu, Yuan Zaju, Southern Opera, Spoken Book.

Southern opera, also known as "drama". Originally, it was a popular form of opera in the south of Song Dynasty, and it was sung in Nanqu. Zhu Yunming's wrong remark in Ming Dynasty: "After Xuanhe and Nandu, Southern Opera is called' Wenzhou Zaju'." Xu Wei's description of Southern Opera: "Southern Opera began in Song Guangzong, and Yongjia people were Zhao Zhennv and Wang Kui, which were two real firsts. ...... No.1' Yongjia Zaju'. " After the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, it was gradually called "Southern Opera". It is one of the earliest mature forms of China opera. It had a great influence on the operas of Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are more than 200 kinds of scripts known today, and only Sun Xiaotu, Zhang Xie's No.1 Scholar, Mistake of the Official's Children (collectively known as Yongle Dadian), Shepherd, Moon Pavilion, Chai Jing's Story, White Rabbit's Story, Dog Killing Story and Pipa Story have been handed down.

Spoken style refers to the spoken style in Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties. Dunhuang manuscripts, including Lushan Yuan Gong Dialect and Han Qinhu Dialect, are works of the Tang and Five Dynasties. The works handed down in Song and Yuan Dynasties can generally be divided into two categories: novels and history books. The former are mostly vernacular short stories, such as Qing Ping Shan Tang Hua Ben. The latter mostly uses simple classical Chinese, which has begun to take shape, such as the Five Dynasties New Historiography Pinghua and the Three Kingdoms Pinghua.