平話

平话
pínghuà
storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary

CEDICT

  1. Pinghua (a group of Chinese dialects spoken in Guangxi)
  2. alternative form of 評話 /评话 (pínghuà)
  3. local speech; plain speech; colloquial dialect

Wiktionary

我國一種講唱文學。行文的方式由韻散相間到純散體，係將前代的軼事渲染說唱而成，在宋代最為盛行。如《三國志平話》、《五代史平話》。後發展成說書體的小說也稱為「平話」。也作「評話」。

重編國語辭典

  1. 流傳於廣西的漢語方言
  2. 白話；口語。
  3. 評話／评话(pínghuà)的另一種寫法。
  4. 閩東語

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 平 píng
  1. flat
  2. level
  3. equal
  4. to tie (make the same score)
  5. to draw (score)
  6. calm
  7. peaceful
  8. abbr. for 平聲 píngshēng
2 話 huà
  1. dialect
  2. language
  3. spoken words
  4. speech
  5. talk
  6. words
  7. conversation
  8. what sb said

classifiers: 種, 席, 句, 口, 番

Containing this entry

平話字 pínghuàzì

Related entries

評話 pínghuà storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary