Performance
Wang Shaotang (王少堂)
Recorded
Nanjing Radio (南京廣播電臺)
Support
Audio Tape (Nanjing Radio; private collection of Vibeke Børdahl)
Abstract
For the last year Wu Song has taken refugee in the home of a rich and generous landlord, Chai Jin, because he has been involved in a case of murder, or so he thinks. News from home reveal that the person didn’t die after all, and Wu Song is eager to return home to see his elder brother, his only relative. After some days on the road he arrives one evening in Jingyang town and enters the local inn, where the young waiter Xiao’er, Little Secundus, serves him the good wine called Three Bowls and You Cannot Cross the Ridge. This is how Wang Shaotang began his tale for Nanjing Radio in 1961
Wu Song content
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Prose verse
Narrator Type
Fixed phrases
橫海郡柴進留賓﹐景陽崗武松打虎
Henghaijun Chai Jin liu bin, Jingyanggang Wu Song da hu
爺吃三十碗﹐挺身過崗
ye chi sanshi wan, ting shen guo gang