An Investigation Of Legend Of The Tang Dynasty In The View Of Culture

The legend of the Tang dynasty has manifested the independence of novel, and it represents the mature of the Chinese classical novel. The rise of the legend of the Tang dynasty is related with the special culture background in the midterm of the Tang dynasty. The legend of the Tang dynasty contains a great deal of the information, and it shows us many vivid popular life patterns. We can know the whole social scene through the legend of the Tang dynasty, and the legend of the Tang dynasty is a mirror which revealed the life of china in all directions, and through it we can see "the multitude appearance" in that era. The History of Chinese Literature writes: "The development of literature is related with the development of the whole culture. Writers in antiquity are all also historian, philosopher, calligrapher, artist and their works often permeated profound culture connotations. Only analyzing from the culture visual angle, can we study deep into the history of literature." This paper just starts with the study of culture, puts the legend of the Tang dynasty in the whole background of the midterm of the Tang dynasty, chooses several important culture patterns as investigation perspectives, and tries to find the culture contain in the literature works, then reappears the exactly history of the midterm of the Tang dynasty.