FROM THE ELEGANT TO THE POPULAR ——THE POPULARIZATION AND FLOURISHING OF NOVELS IN THE SONG DYNASTY

The Song Dynasty's novels are more universalized and flourishing than Tang Dynasty's, and have had move extensive readers and audience. The authors of the novels vary from scholars to ordinary people. The contents and forms of the novels are getting more and more popular, and the quantity also increases greatly.The rulers of the Song Dynasty like the novels, and have adopted the civilization policy that is favour of the novels' development, and their religion policy also gives the popularization of the novels to have provided the free civilization environment with flourishing.The Song Dynasty novels enter history and personal history compilies being current, which enables the authors to realize their life value, and has promoted the large numbers of novels to be created and makes them popular.The innovation and the Song Dynasty art of printing and the development of the printing industry have also contributed to the wide spreading of the novels in the Song Dynasty.