The First Brilliant Monument in the History of China's Novels ——A Discussion on the Position of the Romance of Tang Dynasty in the History of Novels

The appearance of Tang Dynasty's romance marks the maturity of China's ancient novels. The self-cunscious era of creating novels begins fromteaching coach to wilful novel and from spot vecordingtodeliberate curiosity. The novels expressing historical themes were expanded from writing ghost stories and anecdotes to realistic lives. Thus novels were greatly developed in zigzag plots, reasonable structures, clear characters and artistic features. This coherency grealty affected the afterward developmont of novels. The Tang's romance is a brilliant monument of the history China's novels.\;