What position does the legend of the Tang Dynasty occupy in the novel?

The Tang Dynasty is the rising period of feudal society in China, and it is also a period of rapid development and prosperity of culture and art, as well as poetry and novels. The Tang Dynasty was the first peak of the development of China's novels. In the Tang Dynasty, novels made a qualitative leap and produced "legendary novels". Tang Legend is a short story in classical Chinese in Tang Dynasty, and it is a new style. It was not only fruitful in the Tang Dynasty, but also imitated by later generations and became an important genre of China's classical novels. Although it is a novel circulated among intellectuals, rather than a citizen novel, its achievements and influence are enormous. This change has opened a new era of China's novel creation, which is of epoch-making significance. Mr. Lu Xun said in "A Brief History of Chinese Novels": "Novels are also like poems, which changed in the Tang Dynasty." As far as its achievements are concerned, it can indeed be compared with contemporary poetry.