南宋“说话”的特征及其成因初探

Story telling in the Southern Song Dynasty: Its Characteristics and Contributing Causes

本文论述了南宋“说话”的普遍性、团体性和专业性的特征，并认为其产生的社会原因一是南宋社会经济的畸形繁荣。

This paper expounds shuohua, a kind of story telling, in the Southern Song dynasty, which was characteristic of being widespread and performed by professional troupes. It holds that the contributing causes were the lopsided prosperity of the social economy of the time and the feudal ruling classs interest and encouragement.