| 河北梆子 | hé běi bāng zǐ | Hebei opera | |
| 梆子 | bāng zi | watchman's clapper; wooden clappers with bars of unequal length | |
| 梆子腔 | bāng zǐ qiāng | a general term for local operas in Shangxi, Henan, Hebei, Shandong etc; the music of such operas | |
| 硬梆梆 | yìng bāng bāng | variant of 硬邦邦 | |
| 柝梆传夜 | tuò bāng chuán yè | to go round as a night watchman (idiom) |
| 1 | A fire destroyed the house. | |
| 2 | Suddenly there came a rat-a-tat on the door. | |
| 3 | Her family was impoverished by a fire. | |
| 4 | Generally speaking people like to hear compliments from others. | |
| 5 | This paper is a case survey of Wanbang, a traditional local drama. |