sentences:  Influenced by "Huaguxi" and other forms of drama during the reign of the Guangxu emperor of Qing dynasty, these folksongs developed into (滩簧).In order to distinguish them from Sutan and Nibo , Shanghainese people called them ""bentan"" (本滩) or ""shentan"" (申滩).Performance of "shentan" began in Shanghai around the 1900s.