唐郭《高力士外传》中有关“说话”的一段文字向为研究说唱艺术和话本小说起源者所重,然一直未见精当识解,除了有关“说话”的论述意有恍惚外,其中“论议”一语更是莫测大旨。本文指出,“论议”是佛教在其发展过程中从传统重说文化中借来的宣传手段,主要指僧侣间,同时也指僧侣与信众或异教徒间的相互问难,曾给唐五代通俗小说技法的演进以重要影响。“说话”作为讲故事活动从六朝至唐为佛家唱导、讲经的点缀,随着世俗情趣向僧侣阶层的渗透而逐渐独立起来,并留下了作为宋元话本滥觞的两种文字存在形态。佛家论议、说话等宣传方式与唐代民间说唱,共同构成古代通俗小说的源头。 Tang Guo-yang, “Gao Gu Shi Gaiden” in the “talking” to a section of the text for the study of the origin of rap art and storyteller, but has never been properly understood, in addition to the “talk” is a trance, One of the “discussion” is even more unpredictable. This paper points out that the “discourse” is a means of propaganda borrowed from the traditional emphasis on culture in the process of Buddhism. It mainly refers to intercourse between monks and monks and believers or pagans, The evolution of popular fiction techniques has an important influence. As a story-telling activity, “speaking” sang and guided the Buddhists from six dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, gradually embellished with the secular taste and infiltrated the monk class, and left the existence of two literal forms . Buddhist advocacy, speaking and other publicity and folk rap in the Tang Dynasty, together constitute the source of ancient popular novels.