ABSTRACT
The aim of this essay is to compare narrative texts [shuci] from several schools of storytelling [pinghua] among the 'Three Kingdoms' [San guo] traditions of our time.1 In particular, we want to study what kind of inner congruity there exists between a number of versions from various schools of storytelling belonging to the same geographical area. We shall also take a look at the relationship between storytelling [pinghua] and the San guo zhi Pinghua-[Folk Book of Three Kingdoms] (edition of 1321-1323) (1955), the forerunner of the novel San guo yanyi [The Romance of the Three Kingdoms] (Luo Guanzhong 1957, 1980).
