Types of Story of Meeting Fairy in the Legendary of the Tang Dynasty

Story of meeting fairy in the legendary of the Tang Dynasty can be divided into two types: human falling love with fairy and human abandoning the realistic society to enter the fairy world.The former actually is to beautify the realistic world and shows people's desire and pursuit for loyal love.And the writers of the stories show their writing talents by the description of fairy world.The later mainly belongs to satiric works.It is to express the Dao's idea of being free from realistic world by negating realistic world.In these stories, the image of fairy is conceptualized.The purposes of these stories are criticizing reality and preach Daoism instead of showing writing talents.The stories of meeting fairy before the Tang Dynasty produces deep influences on the story of meeting fairy in the legendary of the Tang Dynasty.