「唸歌」是以閩南語為表達語言的說唱藝術，曾發行大量的唱本－「歌仔冊」，其中《大舜耕田坐天歌》深受民眾喜愛，在民間廣為流傳，它所敷唱的「舜的故事」，既對前人的創造有所傳承，也因應當時、當地的文化風俗而有所創新；本文除探討它的出版狀況，並從內容、人物、情節及其思想的變異，探究舜的故事在歌仔冊《大舜耕田坐天歌》中的演化現象及其敘事特色。

"Nian-Ge" is an art of chantable story-telling expressed by Southern Fujian language, and has been published a large quantity of singing volumes which was named as "kua-a-chheh". Among them, "The Song of Emperor Shun's Ploughing the Field and Ascending the Throne" was deeply loved by the public and widely spreaded in the society. Its diffusive chanting of "Emperor Shun's Story" not only had been inherited from the forerunner's creation, but also had been innovated in accordance with the local and contemporary culture and customs. Besides inguiring about the situation of its publication, this thesis, from the contents、the figures、the plots and its ideological alternations, further investigates the evolving phenomena and its narrative characteristics of "Emperor Shun's Story" in the "Song of Emperor Shun's Ploughing the Field and Ascending the Throne" amidst all "kua-a-chheh".