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Mandarin · pinyin huà běn

Song and Yuan literary form based on vernacular folk stories

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話: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect
本: běn · root, origin, source; basis
话: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect

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4–3 · hua4 ben3

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printed versions of the prompt-books used by popular storytellers in the Song dynasty and Yuan dynasty

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