流行于江南苏、沪、杭一带的苏州弹词是一种颇具地方特色的民间曲艺品种，因其主要以三弦、琵琶的弹奏为演唱伴奏，其唱词又多为七言诗，故名“弹词”。弹词有长篇、中篇、短篇等几种。表演长、中篇弹词前，通常要先唱一与内容无关的小段，因其具有“开场白”意义，故称“开篇 Popular in Suzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, the HangZhou is a kind of folk song folk song quite local characteristics, because of its main sanshin, pipa playing accompaniment for singing, and its lyrics are mostly seven words, hence the name “storytelling.” Tanci has a long, medium, short and so on. Performance long, medium storytelling before, usually first to sing a small paragraph unrelated to the content, because of its “opening” meaning, so that "the opening