Admixture of Ode & Biography: Romance in Tang Dynasty

Biography is a different style from ode which has its own characteristic. From Han-Wei Dynasty, the style traits of ode was introduced into biography in some writings,which was developed into a new writing fashion by the writers in Tang dynasty who then turned it into a bran-new style, the Romance. The Romance in Tang dynasty created some new writing conventions. As far as the theme is concerned, Romance in Tang dynasty keeps great interest into the imaginative world and private feelings. As far as the artistic expression is concerned, Romance in Tang dynasty interludes the depiction of scenery into the recountal of biography, and pays attention into the artistic form, rhetorical strategy, and tune, and takes the point of view of restrictive narrative of first-person and third-person. We can sure that it is not until adopted the purport and writing techniques of ode that biography turned into the Romance in Tang dynasty.