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評話

简评话 · 繁評話

Mandarin · pinyin píng huà

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

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話: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect
评: píng · appraise, criticize, evaluate
话: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect

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2–4 · ping2 hua4

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ping4 waa6

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noun

pinghua (Chinese popular stories originated in the Tang and Song dynasties)

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