Tang Dynasty Bulk Transfer

The development of biography literature reached a high peak at Tang Dynasty, both the standard history books and the prose written in biographical style came into a new developing period. The written of biography prose especially entered a prosperous time of development. The Tang Dynasty ruler profoundly knew the importance of'learn from history', so they concentrated efforts on official biography writing, their action guided and promoted those literary men to write the biographical articles. However the official writings showed only the thoughts of rulers, the limitation made the literary men unable to show their talent, thus urges them to display their written abilities on biography prose. The writing style and technique became more and more skilled after the developing from the late of Han Dynasty to Sui Dynasty, which give the creation development of biography prose a stable basic. The classical literature movement started in mid-Tang Dynasty which renewed the prose style gave a great atmosphere for the evolution of biography prose. Biography prose mostly written as practical writings at Tang Dynasty, but some were still rote with the ordinary style. These prose biographies inherited and developed the writing skills and standard from'Shi Ji'such as the tradition of truthfulness and taking care of literature meaning, skills of description and disputation, retained the biography writing style and melted the art technique as novel. These prose biographies'writing objective was'punish the wicked and encourage the good', and'pass on infinitely'. Simultaneously has its own artistic characteristic: the distinct personage character, intense express emotion, short length, flexible using and innovating of language. Tang's biography prose brought'unimportant person'into biography prose, promoted the development of Tang's legend literature at the same time, which had a profound influence at that moment and later.