China's short stories in classical Chinese in Tang Dynasty. The content is full of anecdotes. Later generations called Tang legend. Its appearance marks the maturity of China's ancient short stories. Compared with the novels of Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, it not only records some ghosts and gods, but also records a large number of human world situations, which reflects a wide range of social life and has a strong flavor of life. In art, its length has been lengthened, and some works have created vivid characters. Its language is mostly prose, with more than four sentences and neat syntax, which follows the tradition of strange novels in the Six Dynasties.
Prosperity and its causes The legend of Tang Dynasty is the product of the developed economy of feudal cities. In order to meet the needs of the general public and the ruling class in cultural life, folk talks came into being. At that time, Buddhism flourished and produced a large number of variants, which promoted the development of the art of speaking. Spoken English is widely loved by the people and the upper class.
Notebook novel:
Notebook novels are short stories in the form of notes. Features: short space and complicated content.
Notebook novels began to appear in Wei and Jin Dynasties. According to Lu Xun's viewpoint, academic circles generally divided them into two main types: "strange novels" and "strange novels". In a broad sense, it refers to all works written in classical Chinese, such as strange stories, legends, miscellaneous notes, anecdotes, biographies and essays. , a wide range of content, such as astronomy, geography, David Zhang, plants, insects and fish, customs, academic research, ghosts and gods, erotic legends, jokes and anecdotes.
The novel Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is basically influenced by the style of historical books, flaunting the authenticity of its notes and writing them as a historian, so it is not a conscious novel creation. In terms of artistic expression, the storyline is mostly a straight notebook, which lacks the description of the character's form and psychology, and there is no particularly extravagant plot development. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were no fewer than 3,000 kinds of ancient note novels in China, which were of great historical value and a huge cultural heritage.