Bianwen

[[File:Pelliot chinois 4524-06.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|The Magical Combat (Jiang Mo Bian Wen) (降魔變文)]]

Bianwen () refers to a literary form that is believed to be some of the earliest examples of vernacular and prosimetric narratives in Chinese literature. These texts date back to the Tang dynasty (618–907) and Five Dynasties (907–960) periods, and were first discovered among a cache of manuscripts at Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China in the early twentieth century.