There are many anecdotes in the classical Chinese short stories of Tang people, which are called Tang legends by later generations.
The Prosperity of Tang Legends and Its Causes During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, China's novels were still in their infancy. At that time, there were a large number of novels of ghosts and gods, as well as a few novels such as Shi Shuo Xin Yu. I remember more stories and anecdotes from the upper class. These novels are generally short in length, concise in writing and lacking in specific description. By the time the legend of the Tang Dynasty appeared, great changes had taken place. In addition to some descriptions of ghosts and gods, the legends of the Tang Dynasty also recorded a large number of human world situations, from top to bottom, far broader than in the past, with a strong flavor of life. In artistic form, the length has been lengthened. Compared with the rough outline of the Six Dynasties, the narrative is full of twists and turns, with gorgeous rhetoric and clear traces of evolution? (Lu Xun's A Brief History of Chinese Novels); Some works have also created vivid and touching characters. The appearance of the legend of the Tang Dynasty marks the maturity of China's ancient short stories. Song Hongmai said:? Novels of the Tang Dynasty are indispensable. Small things, heartbroken, but people who meet God don't know. And poetry is a wonderful work of a generation. ? He compared Tang legends with Tang poems and spoke highly of them.
The prosperity of Tang legends has certain historical and social reasons.
After the unification of China in the Tang Dynasty, the society was relatively stable for a long time, and agriculture and industry and commerce developed. Some big cities such as Chang 'an, Luoyang, Yangzhou and Chengdu have large populations and prosperous economies. In order to meet the cultural needs of the general public and the ruling class, in such a big city, private? Talk? Art was born. At that time, Buddhism flourished, and Buddhists also used this popular literary form to praise Buddhist stories or other stories to attract audiences and publicize Buddhism, which led to a large number of variants and promoted? Talk? The development of art. From the folk to the upper class, speaking is generally loved by people. Guo Zhuo's Biography of Gao Lishi records that Xuanzong lived a lonely life in his later years, and Gao Lishi often let him listen to it? Change the speech? In other words, change prose and novels to entertain yourself. Wang Jian's poem "Watching Man Prostitutes" and Ji Shi's poem "Watching Shu Women Turn to Zhaojun Change" both tell the story of prostitutes singing Wang Zhaojun. The story of Mu Lian's saving his mother's life is familiar and quoted by Bai Juyi, (s Skill Poem and Wang's Tang Poetry). Duan Youyang Za continued to record that he had seen zaju during the period of Taihe. What is that? Urban novels? Tell the story of the famous doctor Bian Que. So-called? Urban novels? That is, stories told by neighborhood artists. At that time, scholars gathered, and there were also? Talk? Entertainment. Yuan Zhen's poem "Hundred Rhymes for a White Scholar": The calligraphy topic is exhausted and the time is smooth. ? Attention:? Every time Lotte swims with Yu Youren, there is no problem with the title of the book, but also with Xinchang House. A flower? , from Yin to the third, the words are still not finished. ? A flower? It is a story recorded in Bai Xingjian's Biography of Li Wa, which lasted for four hours, that is, eight hours today, so the narrative is very detailed. At the end of some Tang legends, it is often mentioned that writing this article is because of friends? Talk? , for example? Talk over dinner and night? ("Ren Chuan")? Night talk is different? (Biography of Lujiang Feng Ke)? Talk about it? ("Long Hate Biography")? Because of strange things? ("Continue the mysterious record? Ni Miaoji) and so on. Popular with the scribes? Talk? The atmosphere, its? Talk? Meticulous art is an important reason for the large number and outstanding achievements of Tang legends.
In the Tang Dynasty, scholars were selected in imperial examinations and literature was emphasized. Among all the subjects, the most important one is the Jinshi who tests poetry and fu. Before the examination, scholars often dedicate their poems to famous officials and ministers in order to gain praise, expand social reputation and create conditions for entering the examination. What was it called then? Get out? . Legendary writing is also often used as? Get out? . Song Zhaowei Yan said in "Clouds Full of Money" that in the Tang Dynasty, scholars wrote a scroll and threw it for several days. Warm roll? , such as "Ghost Record" and "Legend"? . Legends are narrative-oriented, close to unofficial history in style, often interspersed with poetic rhyme, and end with a brief discussion, that is, the so-called? Writing for many people? . There are many legendary picture books in the late Tang Dynasty. What kind are they? Get out? 、? Warm roll? Fashion related. However, Zhao Yanwei's statement lacks strong evidence in Tang and Song literature, so some researchers are skeptical.
The authors of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties regarded the novel as a kind of unofficial history who recorded anecdotes, outlined the outline and paid no attention to language ornamentation. < Wen Xin Diao Long > describes in detail all kinds of styles and homophonic argots, but none of them belong to the novel category. It shows that at that time, writing novels such as Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio and Remembering People was not valued by critics because of lack of literary talent. The legend of the Tang Dynasty is quite different. Lu Xun said: Tang people? First it was a novel. Think? Legend has it that the stream, the source covers the monster, but the algae painting is used to expand its wave, so the achievement is extraordinary. In the meantime, although it is also an allegory to relieve worries, the theory of blessing and punishment is based on literary talent and intention, which is quite different from those who have no other intention in the past and only say the cause and effect. ? (A Brief History of Chinese Fiction) This points out that tang legends writers consciously create literature, invent tortuous plots, pay attention to gorgeous language, and are rich in literary talent and ideas, thus achieving outstanding literary achievements.
After the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Buddhism and Taoism developed further in the Tang Dynasty and became popular in the society. The classics and literary works of the two major religions, such as bianwen and murals, all contain many bizarre and imaginative stories. They have a certain influence on the theme, conception and detailed description of some Tang legends (mainly the works of ghosts and gods), and they are also mixed with a lot of religious superstitions.
In the early stage of the development of Tang legends (from the early Tang Dynasty to Xuanzong and Suzong), there were few works, and the quality was not as good as that in the middle stage, but it has shown the characteristics and innovative spirit of Tang legends.
The earliest legend in the Tang Dynasty is said to have been written by Wang Du, a native of the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties, and its content is inseparable from the remnants of the Six Dynasties' strange novels. Based on the ancient mirror, it combines more than a dozen strange stories into a long story, which is more detailed than the note novels of the Six Dynasties and is a great progress. & lt "Biography of General White Ape in Bujiang": General speculation is also a previous work. The author is unknown, the content belongs to the category of mystery novels, the plot is tortuous, and the description is more concrete and vivid, which initially shows the artistic innovation characteristics of Tang legends. The Ancient Mirror and The White Ape mark the transitional form of China's novels from the Six Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty.
Your majesty, marquis Wu, there is another one? In "You Xian Dong", I went to a mansion in the evening on the way of self-narration, and stopped for one night when two women were having a banquet and flirting. The content is light and frivolous, which seems to reflect the life of prostitutes. The language is flashy and vulgar, and there are many lovers' sentences, often interspersed with poems and rhymes. The system is similar to the folk singing literature in the Tang Dynasty and should be influenced by it.
Xuanzong and Su Zong were called the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Poetry flourished in this period, and legends were relatively lonely. At that time, Zhang said that he wrote a legendary article. In "The Legacy of Kaiyuan Tianbao", there is an article "A parrot tells things": Yang Chongyi, a native of Chang 'an, married Liu and murdered his lover, but others didn't know. Later, the case was solved because the parrot on the shelf in front of the hall was reported. Court reasons? Seal the parrot as a green messenger and pay the harem for support. Zhang Hou said, "The Biography of the Youth Messenger" was handed down by someone who was good at it? . Another article in the same book: Shao Lan, the daughter of Guo Xingxian from Chang 'an, married a wealthy businessman Renzong. Ren Zongnan went down to do business and never came back after the year. Shao Lan's poems were written by Yan Zu, Guo Yannan, Fei Di and Ren Zong. After living in the second year, I went home. ? Later, the teachers of the law said that the story was told, but the busybodies wrote it? . However, the original texts of these two novels have been lost. Otherwise, all the problems in Shuo Qian and Yu Chuzhi have been explained clearly, but there is still a lack of reliable evidence.
Zhang? You Xian Cave, Zhang Shuo's Biography of the Green Messenger, etc. , describes the life of the citizens, illustrates the legend of this period. Some broke away from the tradition of the Six Dynasties' mystery novels in content and subject matter, focusing on expressing human feelings and the world, and expanded into new fields.
Some collections of novels also appeared in the early Tang Dynasty, such as Tang Lin's Ghost Newspaper, Zhao's Record of Destiny and Guang Yi Lu. (Gu Kuang's Dai Guang's Different Preface). The original books of these albums have been lost, and some of them are kept in Medium. Generally speaking, the content is about what goes around comes around, following the tradition of the Six Dynasties, lacking creativity, and the words are generally quite simple, only a few chapters are melodious. And Niu Su's. The content of the account is slightly general, and some chapters are quite literary. For example, Wu Baoan describes the eternal friendship between Wu Baoan and Guo Zhongxiang, which is meticulous and moving, and The Book of the New Tang Dynasty is used in the biography of loyalty and righteousness. Although it and "Biography of Campus Guests" are both facts and fiction, they are both chivalrous figures, breaking through the tradition of seeking novelty.
In the middle period (from Daizong to Wenzong), this is the prosperous stage of Tang legends, with many works and many famous artists. Almost all the best single legends were produced in this period. Mr. Lu Xun once pointed out: However, from Dali to Dazhong, Zheng Yun, Yu Shuyuan, Shen Jiji, Xu Yaozuo, Jiang Fang, Yuan Zhen, Li Gongzuo, Bai Xingjian, Chen Hong, Shen Ya and so on are outstanding. ? The legendary works of this period can be roughly divided into ghosts and gods, love, history, chivalry and so on. Some of these works have overlapping contents, such as monsters and love, and other themes are also combined.
(1) monster. It tells a story about gods and ghosts. Although the theme follows the tradition of the Six Dynasties' mystery novels, it has new features in content and form. Shen Jiji's Pillow Story and Li Gongzuo's biography of Conan's satrap wrote that both Lu Sheng and Chun Yu were extremely close in their dreams, and they were miraculous. They woke up from their dreams and converted to religion. The theme is to show the wonderful world, the emptiness like a dream, which is not enough to rely on. The theme accepted the influence of Jiaohu Temple, a strange novel of the Southern Dynasties, in China. However, the full text of Jiaohu Temple is only over 100 words, and there are only a few crosses to write that Yang Lin is proud of his marriage in the pillow. A short narrative; On the other hand, the two books, Pillow in the Heart and Conan, are long in length, detailed in description and detailed in volume, showing? Painting with algae to enlarge its waves? The characteristics of. Moreover, because the brilliant and tortuous career in the dream is vividly described, it also indirectly reflects some situations of the imperial court and officialdom at that time, which has certain practical significance. In addition, Gu's Du Yue Jing, Biography of Lujiang Fengwei, Three Dreams, Biography of Zhou Qin, etc., or Ghosts, or Qimxy, also belong to this category.
(2) Genie and love. In Shen Jiji's Ren Zhuan, the fox turned into a beautiful woman and lived with a poor man. The stone man is not only gorgeous, kind and intelligent, but also resistant to rape and has a moving image, which is a great success for later generations. Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, for example, focuses on the forerunner of the fox fairy story, and the story writing is also better than his Sleeping Man and Chen's ecstasy. In order to follow his lover, Zhang Qianniang's soul and body are separated. Li's Liu Yichuan; Liu Yi, a scholar who wrote a book to save the Dragon Maiden in Dongting, finally married the Dragon Maiden after many twists and turns. The plot is bizarre, the personality is distinct, the description is meticulous, and the words are gorgeous, which is a masterpiece in the legend of the Tang Dynasty. Li wrote in Li Zhangwu's Biography that Li Zhangwu was madly in love with the woman Wang near Huazhou. After the death of the king, the ghost and Li Zhangwu, who revisited the old place and stayed at his house for the night, pursued their love. Wang Bijiang called it narrative? Beautiful writing, touching. , and is called specializing in this kind of brushwork (Tang Dynasty novels). These chapters are actually about love and marriage. If we strip off the supernatural coat, they are all excellent love novels. In addition, Shen Yazhi's three works, Xiang Fen, Strange Dream Record and Qin Meng Record, also belong to this kind of works. Although the narrative is simple, it is full of poetry and charm, which shows the author's sad feelings.
3 love class. In addition to the above-mentioned love stories in the form of monsters, there are also some legends devoted to human love. Such as the poet Han Yi in Yao Zuo's Liu Zhuan.
(a work? Han Wei? ) the story of falling in love with Liu, being separated by turmoil and finally getting back together. This situation is also very common in Meng Zhuo's real life. Another example is Bai Xingjian's Biography of Li Wa, which is about a large family in Xingyang falling in love with Chang 'an and advocating women. After many twists and turns, he was killed and finally had a happy ending. In Jiang Fang's Biography of Huo Xiaoyu, it was written that Li Yi and Chang 'an people in Shaanxi advocated that Huo Xiaoyu fell in love and then became the first official, which was ungrateful. These two legends are based on the love between clan children and prostitutes, which has practical significance. Scholars in the Tang Dynasty were proud of marrying famous women, because this kind of marriage was conducive to the promotion of official career and the improvement of social status. Generally speaking, the children of clans dote on prostitutes, which can only be a temporary affair. Li Wa asked to leave after being appointed as the first official in Zheng Sheng, and advised? When Xie Yuan settled his ancestors? . Huo Xiaoyu also knows that cohabitation with Li Yi won't last long. He just wants to spend eight years temporarily. When Yi Lee was 30, then what? Wonderful hall choice? . This reflects the profound contradiction between strict class boundaries and sincere love. The main characters of the two legends have distinct personalities, twists and turns, and delicate and vivid writing. Together with Biography of Conan Taishou, Biography of Liu Yi and Biography of Qiu Ke, it marks the peak of tang legends's art. Among these works, Yuan Zhen's It is also famous. This article describes Yingying's character in a particularly profound and detailed way.
4 history class. Represented by Chen Hong's Biography of Song of Eternal Sorrow and Biography of Old Father in Dongcheng. In the first half of Song of Eternal Sorrow, it was written that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty favored Yang Guifei, and the corruption in political affairs led to the Anshi rebellion, which exposed the dark reality in the later period of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty. In the second half of the year, after Yang Fei's death, Xuanzong missed her day and night, and a scholar from Sichuan visited Xianshan in Penghu. This story is pure fiction, but full of emotion. At the same time, Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow is accompanied by a biography. When Jia Chang was a teenager, the biography of Dongcheng Old Father wrote that he was good at fighting cocks and was favored by Xuanzong, which reflected the dissolute life of Xuanzong in his later period. After the Anshi Rebellion, the family often fell into poverty and lived by Buddhist temples. A cockfight is vivid in the text, but most of the narratives are straightforward, which is not as brilliant as Long Hate Biography. Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was a key historical figure in the Tang Dynasty, and he was in office for nearly fifty years. He worked hard in the early stage and was wise and promising; In the later period, he was superstitious about alchemists, indulged in womanhood and was dishonest, which led to great disaster. He is also good at poetry and music, and he is brilliant. Therefore, there are many legends about the character events between him and Kaiyuan Tianbao. There are also many songs and records about him in Tang poems, notes and novels. In addition to the above two biographies of Chen Hong, there is Jason Wu's Kaiyuan Yuan Shengping (about Chen Hongzuo). Guo Shu's Biography of Gao Lishi, etc. However, the writing is straightforward and lacks literariness.
⑤ Chivalrous class. This kind of novel was rare in the middle Tang Dynasty. Li Gongzuo has a biography of Xie Xiaoe. Xie Xiaoe's father and husband were killed by thieves Shen Lan and Shen Chun. Xiao E disguised herself as a man and worked for Shen Lan's family. Finally, she designed to kill Lan Shunchun, showing the chivalrous spirit of both wisdom and courage. Shen Yazhi wrote in the biography of Yan Feng that Yan Feng and Huazhou were having an affair with Zhang Ying's wife. After that, the baby's wife gave a knife to kill her husband. Feng was angry with her injustice and killed her. It also shows the heroic style of taking responsibility after breaking the law. In addition, such as Qiantang Jun in Liu Yi Chuan, Xu Jun in Liu Shi Chuan and the yellow shirt in Huo Xiaoyu Chuan all belong to the chivalrous class, but they are not the protagonists of the whole article. This kind of novels developed greatly in the late Tang Dynasty.
There are few single legends in the later period (from literate Sect to the end of Tang Dynasty), including Xue Diao's Biography, Ling Ying Biography and Nightmare Record in Dongyang. The emergence of legendary albums has become a trend. Among the more famous ones, except for cattle, monks and children, Xu Xuanlu may have been written in the period before Wenzong, including Bo by Zheng Huangu and Xue Yongwei, Ganze Ballad by, Legend by, Joke by Kang Pian, Huangfu Mei and so on. Not all the works in the legendary album are created by editors. For example, Nimiao Ji in Continued Mystery Record was taken from Xie Xiaoe's Biography by Li Gongzuo and slightly modified, while Shen Yazhi in Bo was taken from Shen Yazhi's Strange Dream Record. Due to the huge number of albums, the number of works is far ahead of two periods; However, except some of them are more detailed and vivid, most of them are short in length, short in narrative and fantastic in description. Fu is close to the strange novels of the Six Dynasties, but its literary achievements are far less than those of the mid-term single legend.
In supernatural stories, such as Legend of the Miraculous, it is written that the dragon lady and Mrs. Jiu resisted the forced marriage of Chao Na Xiaolong, got the assistance of Zhou Bao from Jingyuan Our Times, and finally defeated Chao Na Xiaolong. The plot is quite tortuous, obviously influenced by Liu Yi's biography. In A Nightmare in Dongyang, a scholar falls into an empty house at night on his way to self-deception. When they meet monsters like camels, donkeys, chickens, cats and hedgehogs, they turn themselves into people, write poems to each other and talk to themselves. At dawn, all the monsters were gone. I visited them with suspicion, but I knew they were monsters. The last paragraph of this idea is quite close to the end of the biography of Conan satrap. What is written in the engagement shop? Old man under the moon? A famous story in charge of marriage books. "Peixing" in Legend tells the story that a scholar Peixing met a fairy in Lantian Post and finally got married through hard work, which is also widely circulated in later generations. The theme of "Du Zichun" in Continued Mystery Record comes from Volume 7 of the Western Regions of Datang. Martyr pool? Du Zichun is poor because of poor governance. When you meet an old man, you often give him money. Later, Taoist priests led them into Huashan Mountain, asking them to sit quietly and seek immortality, and not to be confused by all the illusions of the outside world. Zichun was able to keep the precepts at the beginning of spring, but when she saw her beloved son killed, she suddenly became silent and gave up all her previous efforts. The main purpose of the novel is to publicize the Taoist thought of abandoning customs, but the description is meticulous and shows high artistic skills.
Snow sculpture and Walking Fly Smoke by Huangfumei are outstanding works in later love novels. The former writes the love tragedy of Wu concubine Bu, with graceful narration and quite emotional color; The latter tells the story of falling in love with his cousin Liu and experiencing joys and sorrows. The plot is tortuous and the description is vivid. Although the latter one is mainly about love, the chivalrous elements are much more serious than the previous Liu Chuan and Chuan. To the article, I wrote that Kunlunnu Mill was brave and extraordinary. In order to fulfill the love of his master Cui Sheng, more than ten walls robbed a prostitute of a respected minister's family, and the focus of the description also shifted from love to chivalry.
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There are also some short stories in the legendary album. Although the plot is simple and the description is not detailed enough, the ideological content is of progressive significance. For example, "Que Yao" in "Rainy Three Waters" wrote about Hunan observation, which made Li's slave girl calmly deal with the teasing of her four sons, and designed to tease them, showing the wit and resistance of the oppressed. The Kyoto Confucian scholar in Huangfu's "The Original Story" describes a Kyoto Confucian scholar who claims to be courageous and not afraid of ghosts. He stayed alone in a haunted house all night, shocked and exposed, and portrayed an intellectual whose words and deeds are not the same. This kind of works is short and meaningful, which is similar to some articles in Ji Yun's Notes on Yuewei Caotang.
Poetry in the Tang Dynasty was developed, which produced many legends and stories about poets and their creation. Some of them are also legends. Xu Yaozuo's Liu Zhuan, Shen Yazhi's Qin and other single articles, as well as Wang Wei and Ji Mengzhi's special collections in Ji Mi Ji, all belong to this category. The two works of the late Tang Dynasty, Skill Poetry, mainly or exclusively recorded the poet's poetry stories. The Wei and Jin Dynasties advocated speaking freely and releasing people, resulting in Yu Lin, Shi Shuo Xin Yu and other note novels. Poetry was highly praised in the Tang Dynasty, resulting in stories such as Yunxi Entertainment and Skill Poetry. From this we can see the special atmosphere of an era.
To sum up, the content of Tang legends is rich and colorful, reflecting a wide range of social life. Some of them show the joys and sorrows of male and female lovers and social reasons. Some of them reflect people's beautiful ideals for a happy life through fantasy, some expose the ugly phenomenon of the upper class, and some praise the heroic acts of being brave and resisting violence, which are mostly of positive significance. Legends of the Tang Dynasty also contain many ideological dross, such as advocating superstition of ghosts and gods and fatalism, advocating that women are stunners and disasters, and praising their sons' loyalty out of personal gratitude, etc., which should be identified.
The language of Tang legends is generally prose, but there are more than four sentences with neat syntax, which follows the tradition of strange novels in the Six Dynasties. Such as the novels of the Six Dynasties, the language is relatively simple and does not pay attention to duality and rhetoric. What was the difference then? Words? Pen? Under the atmosphere, belong to? Pen? However, in this category, due to the prevalence of parallel prose, some sentences are neat in syntax and close to parallel prose in style. The legendary language of the Tang Dynasty developed along this road. A few chapters, such as You Xian Dong, even focus on parallel prose, but most of the works are basically prose, although mixed with parallel prose. However, due to the author's intention to attach importance to literary talent, the language of many works is quite gorgeous. Legends flourished and masterpieces piled up in the middle Tang Dynasty. Influenced by the prevailing atmosphere at that time, Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan also wrote several articles close to legend, such as the biography of Mao Ying by Han Yu and the biography of Hejian by Liu Zongyuan. But they don't pay attention to telling interesting stories like legends, but to the author's conception and literary talent, as Lu Xun said? Fable is the main thing, and the words are at the end? , in fact? Has nothing to do with legend (a brief history of China's novels). Legendary narratives are generally specific and meticulous, with gorgeous language, concise ancient prose narrative and elegant language. The Story of Yueyang Tower written by Fan Zhongyan in Song Dynasty describes the scenery he saw when he climbed the building, which is more specific and tidy in syntax. It is close to parallel prose, so it was laughed at by Athena Chu, an ancient prose writer. Legend? ("Poems on the Back Hill"), which is quite enough to illustrate the difference between the two styles. Therefore, works like Biography of Mao Ying can't actually be regarded as legends.
The influence of Tang legends on later literature has a great influence on later novels, operas and singing literature.
Legendary style has become the main style of classical Chinese short stories since the Song Dynasty, and it still has certain influence even after the rise of vernacular novels. There were many legendary works in the Song Dynasty. Although generally speaking, it is dull and lacking in talent, there are some excellent works, such as Lu Xun's Legend of Tang and Song Dynasties: Biography of the Green Pearl, Biography of Yang Taizhen, Biography of Mei Fei, etc. Biography of Li Shishi > and so on. The famous legendary novels in Ming Dynasty include Qu You's New Tales of Cutting Lights, Li Zhen's Last Words of Cutting Lights and Shao's Searching for Lights. Among them, the artistic conception of "cutting lights and playing bureaucratic jargon" is quite refreshing for new people. Pu Songling's "It" also inherits and develops the characteristics of vivid images, twists and turns of stories and rich and vivid language of Tang legends, and has made great achievements.
Legends of the Tang Dynasty also had a great influence on vernacular short stories after the Song Dynasty, that is, scripts, and many themes and characters were adopted by scripts. According to Song Ye Luo, there are many scripts written according to the story of tang legends in Song Dynasty, but many of them are lost. A collection of words compiled by Ming people? Three words? ,? Two beats? In the book, there are also many words based on the legends of the Tang Dynasty. The legendary combination of narrative, poetry and discussion, that is, the so-called? Writing for many people? The characteristics and legendary methods of character description, such as detailed description and vivid dialogue between characters, also have reference and development.
The influence of the themes and stories of Tang legends on later operas and singing literature has always been concerned by researchers. A famous legend has produced several operas with the same theme in later generations. The most famous ones are Wang Bocheng's Palace Tune Tianbao Legacy in Yuan Dynasty, Wu Tongyu's zaju in Bai Pu in Qing Dynasty and the legendary drama "The Palace of Eternal Life" in Hong Sheng, Cui Yingying's Liangzhu Guci by Zhao Lingzhi in Song Dynasty, The Story of the West Chamber by Wang Shifu in Yuan Dynasty, The Story of Huo Xiaoyu, The Sleeping Man and The Story of the Taishou by Conan. Tang Yuming's four dreams? Influence and so on. Because the legend of the Tang Dynasty has become one of the treasures of the re-creation of later dramas and novels, some people compare this phenomenon with the influence of Greek mythology on later European literature.
Collection and research materials of Tang legends In the late Tang Dynasty, Chen Han collected many excellent chapters of Tang legends and compiled them into the Collection of Different Stories 10. The original book has been lost, and some of them were collected by Taiping Guangji. Five Hundred Volumes, edited by people in the early Song Dynasty, compiled novels, unofficial history and miscellaneous notes from Han, Wei to the early Song Dynasty. It is rich in materials and is the source of preserving novels of Han, Wei, Six Dynasties and Tang Dynasty. Books compiled in the Ming and Qing dynasties, such as Talking about the Sea, Novels of the Five Dynasties, Stories of Tang People, etc., are often? Make a fake title and change the title to the author? (Lu Xun's Preface to the Legends of Tang and Song Dynasties) Can't be trusted. ? May 4th Movement? Later, according to Wen Yuan Hua Ying, Tai Ping Guang Ji and other books, Lu Xun eliminated the false and retained the true, and specially adopted a single legend in the Tang and Song Dynasties as: There is a Border Bian Xiao at the end of the book, and made textual research on the collected legends and their authors, thus leading the sorting out and research work in this field into a scientific way. Later, Wang Bijiang edited another book. In addition to a single article, he also selected some representative works from the album. Each article has explanations and textual research, which can be compared to: parallel complementarity. Today, people are still collating the special collections of Tang legends, including Bo Zhi Yi, Ji Yi Ji, Legend and so on.