The Script of the puppet show Baodai ji: Maofang hui in West Fujian Province is very similar with Fengyue jinnang: Chenxiang as reprinted during Ming dynasty's Jiajing period in such aspects as plot, tune titles, and diction. The script absorbed folk ditties then in vogue, so the prosody of its major tunes and the ditties are almost identical: while keeping the very pattern of performance and singing of nanxi or ”southern drama”, it also features an embryonic form of ”chanting” (gun), indicating a transition from Yiyang Tune to its variations. It is therefore reasonable to infer that the form of Baodaiji must have been fixed during Jiajing period of Ming dynasty. As a play, its style may have derived from the archetypal nanxi, or from Fengyue jinnang: Chenxiang of early Ming dynasty. It is a relic of the nanxi Liu Xi Chenxiang Taizi in Fujian. The Siping Opera Zeng Baodai is a variation of the singing style of nanxi.