敦煌故事赋【英】

Dunhuang Narrative Prose

定义

敦煌写本中叙述故事的赋体作品。以叙事为主，多用问答体，大概来源于秦汉的杂赋，故事赋多用四言或六言句，韵脚较疏，大体整齐，语言通俗，也有散文化倾向较重的作品。

Narrative prose in Dunhuang manuscripts are dedicated to storytelling, mainly in a conversational question-and-answer style. They probably originated from za fu (miscellaneous rhymed prose) of the Qin and Han Dynasties. In most of the works, four-character or six-character sentences are frequently employed, with somewhat neat rhymes in vernacular. However, there are also works in a conventional prose style.