Storytelling · ST10706

Cantonese Yuequ and Naamyam

Cantonese sung pieces and narrative ballads, from wistful naamyam to storytelling muk-yu.

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Story · Ming dynasty (the oldest surviving fragment was printed around 1600)The Flowery NotepaperThe oldest known wooden-fish ballad book, put into English in 1824 and read by Goethean anonymous Ming author of wooden-fish balladsSE10171Song · Daoguang reign of the Qing (the Ye family's account; authorship disputed)A Traveller's Autumn LamentA classic of Cantonese nanyin whose authorship has long been disputed; its opening lines come from Huang ShaobaYe Ruibo · Huang ShaobaSE10139