Scholars of linguistics believe that every language has a method for being written down, and Fukienese is no exception. This book shows that 400 years ago Fukienese were using Chinese characters to write scripts in their own tongue.
語言學家深信每種語言一定有它的文字記錄方式，閩南語也不例外，而這本以漢字寫成的閩南劇本﹘﹘荔鏡記戲文，進一步證明瞭語言學家的懷疑，早在四百年前，閩南人就以漢字寫劇本了。