What are the differences between novels and storytelling?

1. Novel: A literary genre that focuses on portraying characters and reflects social life through complete storylines and environmental descriptions. Characters, plot, and environment are the three elements of a novel. A plot generally includes four parts: beginning, development, climax, and ending, and some include a prologue and an epilogue. Environment includes natural environment and social environment. According to length and capacity, they can be divided into novels, novellas, short stories and micro-novels (small novels). According to the content of expression, it can be divided into science fiction, public case, legend, martial arts, romance, fan fiction, officialdom, etc. According to the system, it can be divided into chapter novels, diary novels, epistolary novels and autobiographical novels. According to the language form, it can be divided into classical Chinese novels and vernacular novels.

2. Storytelling, also known as story telling, storytelling, commonly known as telling ancient stories in Guangdong, Cantonese and other regions, and speaking in ancient times, is an ancient Han traditional oral storytelling performance art form that became popular in the Song Dynasty. Storytellers from various places tell different stories to people in their own mother tongue, so they are also part of the dialect culture. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, storytelling was performed by one person sitting behind a table, with props such as a folding fan and a wake-up wood, and the costume was a long gown. By the middle of the 20th century, most people no longer used tables, chairs, folding fans, wake-up wood and other props, and instead performed standing speeches. , the clothing is also less fixed. After China's reform and opening up, under the impact of electronic media and the promotion of Mandarin, the storytelling culture of some dialects has gradually declined and is on the verge of disappearing, but it still has its vitality.

3. Difference:

①Novel and storytelling belong to two different artistic concepts. Novel is a kind of language art. It is through readers reading literary works and generating images to gain beauty and education. Storytelling is different. It is a performing art that uses storytelling actors to tell stories, supplemented by actions, so that the audience can be artistically inspired and educated. Therefore, novels and storytelling are two different art forms. Novels use language and characters to shape images, describe plots, and reflect social life; storytelling use sounds and shapes to shape images and reflect life. Readers of novels must have certain cultural literacy, and at least be literate; people who are illiterate and storytelling can also understand and appreciate it.

②Different ways of appreciation. The novel uses people's visual organs to associate with the plot described in the language and words, and obtain pleasure and education from it. This way of appreciation is usually done by a single person, and it is rare for several or even hundreds of people to read a novel at the same time. Even if two people sometimes appreciate the same novel at the same time, the speed at which the two readers appreciate the novel and the associations they generate are very different. Storytelling uses people's auditory organs to associate with the plots and characters narrated by storytelling actors in order to obtain pleasure and education. Appreciating storytelling is generally done in groups, with audiences ranging from 2 people to hundreds or even millions of people. They appreciate a work at the same time (TV stations broadcast storytelling to millions of listeners), and the audience’s appreciation speed is different from the storytelling actors. proportional to the comment speed.

③The description of the plot of the novel is a straightforward narrative, while the storytelling is told through the "柁子". Novels have malleable requirements for storytelling, while storytelling has very strict requirements for storytelling. It relies on "story" to win. Both novels and storytelling require the storyline to have a beginning and an end, which is the appreciation habit of the Han nation. However, when novels present storylines, they are described sequentially either in chronological order or in event order. Although Pingshu writes about the same events and characters, it is different from novels in showing the plot. It divides the entire storyline into a number of relatively independent "柁子".

④ The basic element of storytelling is "buttons", and novels do not have strict requirements for the setting of buttons. There are several buttons in the beams in storytelling. The so-called "buttons" refer to exciting suspense. There are big buttons and small buttons. "Big Button" mainly focuses on narrating storylines, with rigorous structure and meticulous details. "Little Buttons" focuses on character creation.

⑤ Novels use comprehensive techniques to describe characters, while storytelling relies on "opening up the face" to create characters.

⑥In terms of the description of the environment and scenes, the novel is inseparable from the description of the social environment and the natural environment. Storytelling only provides a simple description of the natural environment, which is called "setting up the details", that is, necessary explanations of the background and situations of the characters' activities in the book.

Such as the city, courtyard, village scenery and other places are narrated, and the scenery, people and plot are combined to make people feel immersed in the scene. Novels often provide complex and detailed descriptions of the social environment in which the characters live, but storytelling often only provides simple explanations without lengthy and detailed descriptions. The description of the natural environment is also concise and concise, and the writing environment is also displayed along with the development of the plot.

⑦ In terms of language, storytelling also has characteristics that are different from novels:

A. The musicality of language.

B. Use "duo sentences", that is, use a large number of parallelism and exaggerated descriptions to describe events or characters. Parallel phrases are majestic and sonorous, and can exaggerate the atmosphere and impress the audience.

C. Popularization and colloquialism of language.

D. The image of storytelling language. Both storytelling and novels require a sense of image, but storytelling is more demanding than novels because storytelling is an art of speaking and singing. Without a high sense of image, it cannot attract the audience.

⑧The language of novels is divided into character language and narrator language, and the language of storytelling is divided into three categories: "comments", "tables" and "bai". "Comment" refers to evaluating the characters' language behavior and thoughts in the book. "Table" refers to narrating the plot of the story and introducing characters and events in the speaker's tone. "White" refers to imitating the speech, voice, smile and appearance of the characters in the book. "Comment" is closely connected with "expression" and "bai", which means combining the plot of the story with the description of the character's appearance and evaluation of the character.