The highest artistic value of Tang legends is Li's Biography, Yuan Zhen's Biography of Yingying, Bai Xingjian's Biography of Li Wa and Huo Xiaoyu's Biography.
There are also Biography of Ren Shi, Biography of Song of Eternal Sorrow, Biography of Kunlun Mountain, Ancient Mirror, Biography of General Bujiang White Ape, Biography of Campus Guests, Bedside Story, Nie Yinniang, Colorful Jade, Wandering Three Heroes, Away from Soul and so on.
The flourishing age of the early Tang Dynasty is the beginning of the legend of the Tang Dynasty.
That is, from the Wude period in the early Tang Dynasty to the end of the Dali period, it was a transitional period from the novels of the Six Dynasties to the novels of tang legends. During this period, a legendary article appeared. The Story of the Ancient Mirror is the earliest extant novel in the Tang Dynasty. It is written in the first person in the style of "ancient prose", ending the situation that China's novels always use the third person narrative.
Zhang Kun's "Wandering Fairy Cave" is a work with high artistic achievements in the early days of Tang legend's prosperity. It has the distinct characteristics of parallel prose novels and the nature of an affair documentary. Narrating in the first person, the language is simple and popular, and there are many quips with strong folk flavor.
Legendary novels in the early Tang Dynasty were formed on the basis of strange novels, combined with narrative literary elements such as historical biography, ci fu, poetry and folk rap art, and showed the diversity of styles from the beginning.