Is there a difference between The Complete Biography of Datang and The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties?

Not the same novel, the two novels are more related to history than The Complete Biography of Tang People.

1, Complete Biography of Tang Dynasty, the author is unknown.

Long historical novels in the Qing Dynasty, ***68 times. Also known as the complete biography of Tang people. Later, the biography of Tang people was engraved and renamed the biography of Tang people.

There are many official biographies of this kind of works, which are self-contained thanks to the essays of Tang and Song Dynasties. Although the outline of Legend of Tang Dynasty is like the legacy of Sui history, it can only widely absorb folklore and express it, and it is not limited to historical facts and has a distinct folk literature color.

2. The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties was written by Chu people.

Long vernacular historical romance novels in Qing Dynasty. The book has 20 volumes, 100 times and more than 700,000 words. It is a novel with both heroic legend and historical romance. Based on the peasant uprising at the end of Sui Dynasty, this paper tells a historical romance of the collapse of Sui Dynasty and the establishment of Tang Dynasty. The characters in the novel have distinct personalities and the story is widely known. One of the classic paragraphs, enduring.

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The process of writing two books:

1, romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties

The story of Sui and Tang Dynasties has been widely circulated among the people in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. But as a novel, it began in the Ming Dynasty. A large number of long historical romances appeared in the early Qing Dynasty, covering from ancient times to the Ming Dynasty, which almost constituted a complete and detailed historical series. The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties is a link in this series.

Before The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties came out, Luo Guanzhong had compiled Biographies of Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the middle of Ming Dynasty, Han Lin revised it and called it Biography of Sui and Tang Dynasties. The book is the main source of Chu people's acquisition. At the same time, it also refers to the Ming version of Qin Wang's Ci-Hua in Tang Dynasty, Emperor Yangdi's Yan's family in Wu Ming Dynasty, and legends, operas, folklore and other materials in Tang and Song Dynasties, such as Tales of Seamounts, Tales of Lost Buildings, Talking about the River, the Tianbao Legacy of Kaiyuan, the Legend of Taizhen and so on.

The author collects extensively and compiles meticulously, melting many figures, complex events and long history into one furnace, forming an organic artistic whole.

2. The Complete Biography of the Tang Dynasty

Tang Shuo is a masterpiece of historical romance in the early Qing Dynasty, which has been widely circulated among the people. Later, there were sequels such as Biography of Tang People (including Biography of Tang Xiaoxia 16, that is, Luotong Sweeping the North and Biography of Tang Xuejia House, 6 volumes and 42 times), Biography of Tang San and Anti-Tang Biography.

Describing the events after Wagang hero, Xue Dongzheng's expedition to the West and the anti-Tang Dynasty respectively, its main purpose is nothing more than praising and criticizing loyalty, goodness and evil, and promoting pioneering and sealing Hou, but it lacks new ideas in art, so its achievements are not high.

Today, the earliest official engraving is the Qing Dynasty Qianlong Guimao (1783)68 volumes and 68 chapters, with the preface of the first year of Qianlong (1736) such as Lotus Lay Man. The title of the book is "The Legend of the Tang Dynasty", which was used by the official literature publishing house in the 48th year of Qianlong and Huiwentang in the 6th year of Jiaqing. Later, the publication of Shengdetang divided it into fourteen volumes, entitled "The Complete Biography of New Carving into Tang People", and the word "Romance" was removed, while "New Carving into Change" was an advertising word.

The biggest change happened in the publication of Mountain Town Hall. It divides the sixty-eight chapters into eight volumes, entitled Prequel to the Tang Dynasty. The reason why Quanzhuan was changed to Pre-Biography was to match the already popular Biography of the Tang Dynasty. Subsequently, Shanchengtang, Yugu Fang Shan and other publishing houses combined the prebiography and the postbiography into one, and called it The Complete Biography of the Legend of the Tang Dynasty or The Combined Biography of People in the Tang Dynasty, and launched them together.

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