The First Tang Ranger Literary Studies

This thesis discusses all sorts of knight-errant literary works before Tang Dynasty, generalizes all sorts of these work's different feature, and concludes knight-errant literary works' developing vein during the early days.First of all, there were a lot of knight-errant prose in the history prose of Han Dynasty, like Shi Ji and Han Shu. Though this kind of prose gave the first place to recording history, they have a lot of literature features, from which we can generalize the characters of the early knight-errant literary works.The second, this thesis will discuss the knight-errant poems before Tang Dynasty, classify these poems according to their content, generalize the characters of these poems, conclude the differences between knight-errant prose and poems before Tang Dynasty.The third, there were some novels of Wei Jin and South and North Dynasty referring to knight-errant, so this thesis will introduce this kind of works, and analyze their characters.