The Art of Narrative Viewpoint of Tang's Legend and the Independence of Its Style

The independence of the narrative style of Tang's legend has much to do with its extremely flexible are of viewpoint.By adopting new narrative techniques including limited narration under omniscient frame,the limited narration of the first person and the third person,intersection and shift of different viewpoints,the authors make the legend's text transcend its origin historical biography and grew up to the narrative style with the aesthetic characteristic of fiction in many aspects such as narrative discourse, narrative structure,narrative time and rhythm,and so on.The achievements of Tang's legend can be attributed not only to its absorbing Chinese traditional narrative experience, but also to its adopting foreign narrative art, such as Buddhism literature and folk literature of India.