-
Bianwen (Chinese: 變文; pinyin:
biànwén; lit. 'transformation texts')
refers to a
literary form that is
believed to be some of the
earliest examples of...
- Lady Meng
Bianwen Dunhuang M****cript...
- originality. In the
development of
Chinese fiction, the
huaben are
heirs of the
bianwen (Buddhist tales) and
chuanqi of the Tang dynasty, and are the predecessors...
- (618–1279),
people began to
write in
their vernacular dialects in the form of
bianwen and yulu (語錄; 'language record'),[citation needed] and the
spoken language...
-
Indian drama in turn
appears to have
influenced the
development of the
bianwen verse dramas in China,
forerunners of
Chinese Opera. East
Asian verse dramas...
- rich
stories in the form of
chuanqi ('transmissions of the strange') or
bianwen ('transformation tales').
Mulian and his
mother appeared onstage in operas...
- Song
dynasty may also have been
influenced by a Tang
Buddhist tradition bianwen (變文),
which mixed speech with song and used by
monks to
communicate Buddhist...
- [Confucian and
Taoist differences] 11
Xianyao 仙藥 The
Medicine of
Immortality 12
Bianwen 辨問
Discerning Questions 13
Jiyan 極言 The
Ultimate Words [regarding immortality]...
-
range of less
formal works either oral or
using oral conventions, such as
bianwen, pingshu, and huaben,
which formed background to the
novel as
early as...
- were
earlier precedents of The Twenty-four
Filial Exemplars. A
Buddhist bianwen titled Ershisi Xiao
Yazuowen (二十四孝押座文),
which was
among the m****cripts...
