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Bianwen is a literary genre that emerged in the Tang Dynasty of China under the influence of the Buddhist art of disguise. It is a movement to popularize Buddhism and re-translate Buddhist scriptures. Because the Buddhist scriptures were too obscure, monks expressed the principles and stories in the Buddhist scriptures in the form of singing and singing in order to spread the Buddhist scriptures. The content of these stories was easy to understand. After being written into manuscripts, they became Bianwen.

Bianwen is mostly based on Buddhist scriptures or Chinese folk stories, and is elaborated and rewritten. There are generally three types of Bianwen materials: one is Bianwen with Buddhist stories, such as "Conquering Demon Bianwen", "Destroying Demon Bianwen", "Vimalakīrti Sutra Bianwen", "Diamond Sutra Bianwen", " "Damu Qianlian rescues his mother from the underworld" and so on.

Features of Bianwen

Bianwen has unique creations in the art form. In addition to narrative twists, vivid descriptions, rich imagination, and popular language, the combination of verse and prose is its important structural feature. The rhymes of Bianwen generally use seven-character poems, sometimes mixed with three-character, five-character, and six-character sentences.

Bianwen inherits more of the narrative techniques of Ci and Fu writers in terms of expression, and the writing style is rough and is known for its vigor and freshness. However, it often lacks the delicate and vivid descriptions of later novelists, and it is inevitably limited in portraying the character and showing the character's inner world.