Beiguan, as one of the main genres in Taiwanese traditional music, consists of four categories: iu-khik, hi-khik, pai-tsi, and hian-a-phoo. Pai-tsi and hian-a-phoo are instrumental music while the others are vocal music. Furthermore, hi-khik can be subcategorized to three types of plays, the ritual plays, the old-style and the new-style according to the source of their articulation.

　　One of the pieces in the program of HSU Pi-Jung graduate concert titled “Obsessed with Beiguan”, hue-ke (literally means going home), is just of the old-style play. It tells of a story about a famous general XUE Ren-Gui, who has served in the military for thirteen years far away from his family. Being nostalgic, he pretends to be a soldier for the purpose of his family reunion, but mistakenly kills his son, XUE Ding-Shan, on his way home.

　　The analysis and interpretation in this article are based on the rendition of the master CHUANG Chin-Tsai. This article, first of all, discusses all the characters in the play hue-ke. Secondly, it compares the text with the hue-ke-related ones in other genres such as jingju, yuju, bangzi, yuan zaju and narrative songs. At last, on the aspect of singing styles, the analysis and interpretation focus on some patterns used in this old-style play hue-ke, including tshai-pan, kin- pan, kin-tiong-bān and bān-tiong- kin.