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The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties is a novel with both heroic legend and historical romance. The author is Chu Renhuo, a native of Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). The year of birth and death is unknown. Kangxi was alive twenty years ago. He has never been an official for life and has a high literary reputation. He is good at poetry and writing, especially interested in reading anecdotes about the history of past dynasties. There are many works, and the most representative of his literary achievements is The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties.
The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties takes the history of Sui and Tang Dynasties as its theme. Since the Song Dynasty, various legends and stories about the "18-Route Smoke and Dust" Rebellion at the end of Sui Dynasty have been widely circulated among the people, among which there are a large number of novels playing the history of Sui and Tang Dynasties, which can form a larger series. Before the Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, the works with the same theme were more influential, such as Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, Yang Diyan's Family, and the Legacy of Sui History in Ming Dynasty. The Chu people collected the above works extensively, and at the same time absorbed the relevant materials of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and processed and rewritten the 700,000-word Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties. As a master of the stories of the Tang Dynasty, Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties has almost noticed all the anecdotes and miscellaneous sayings about the history of the Sui and Tang Dynasties in ancient books and legends, and dissolved them into one work, which is miscellaneous but not chaotic, forming its own plot system, which can be said to be from behind.
The narrative of The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties began with the attack of the Sui and Chen Dynasties, and began with …