清末,吴县曹元忠于杭州得《新编五代史平话》一种,武进董氏诵芬室据以影刊,遂显于世。此书,元明以来公私书目皆未著录,实为话本小说中之惊人秘籍。曹元忠断为宋刊,跋曰:“或出南渡小说家所为,而书贾刻之,故目录及每卷首尾辄大书‘新编五代某史平话’也。惟刊自坊肆,每于宋讳不能尽避,…… At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Wu Yuan Cao Yuanzhong in Hangzhou was ”a new generation of Pinghua history,“ a kind of Wujin Dong’s chanting room according to the film, then appeared in the world. This book, both the public and private titles since the Yuan and Ming dynasties are not recorded, in fact, is a surprising cheats in this novel. Cao Yuanzhong broken song for the song, Postscript said: ”or out of Nandu novelist, and book Jia engraved, so the catalog and the volume of each end of a large book Si, every song taboo can not be avoided, ......