If the foreign students who are interested in Chinese culture, especially the ancient Chinese literature, they must have heard of the two books name Stories of Wu Song and Stories of Yue Fei. The full-length novel Stories of Wu Song is one of the representative works of Gao Yuanjun, the famous quick-patter rap artist. The Stores of Wu Song originated from the famous book Outlaws of Marsh, being composed of sixteen chapters, starting from the birth of Wu Song to going to Liang Mountain with other heroes after being forced by the officials.
The most characteristic point of this book is to vividly portray the image of the hero who has a strong sense of justice and ready to help the weak with humorous language and vivid love and hate. The chapter about Wu Song fights the tiger is welcomed by many people. The drama version of the whole book was published by Chinese Quyi Press in the year of 1987. After that, it was widely applied to perform at stage.
The Stories of Wu Song fully displays the flexibility of Gao Yuanyun under the stupid appearance, alternating kindness with severity. The natural telling style and the relaxing and interesting is also characterized by the meaningfulness, showing the skillful technique of Gao. Another book that the overseas students who study in free Chinese lessons need to know is Stories of Yue Fei, which was published after the famous storytelling artist Liu Lanfang and her husband Wang Yinquan rearranged on the basis of the traditional long storytelling Jing Zhong Shuo Yue in the year of 1979.
The content of the book is to display the moving deeds and important achievements made by the national hero Yue Fei, the famous general in the Southern Song Dynasty for fighting against Jin army. There were many superstitious things and feudal thoughts in the original version of book. When being rearranged and told by Liu Lanfang, those contents were boldly deleted. It presents a new style by telling the ancient stories from the modern perspective.
Since the plots in Stories of Yue Fei are attractive and the telling of Liu Lanfang is fantastic, it is warmly welcomed by the general public. When it came to play the storytelling of Stories of Yue Fei, many people went home and stayed at home to watch carefully. In September of 1981, all 100 chapters of the storytelling Stories of Yue Fei was officially published.