The characteristics of traditional legendary novels are as follows

Legend is a novel written for characters in the form of biography, which is the style of biography and anecdote.

There are so-called legendary novels and legendary narrative traditions in Chinese and foreign literary history. Legendary novels are a writing style that inherits anecdotes, and legendary narratives often contain ideal colors and exaggerated elements. As far as the narrative of China's novels is concerned, the legendary narrative mode formed since the Tang Dynasty is a basic symbol of the development of China's novels to a mature stage. The basic elements of legend are the fantasy of plot and the specificity of characters. Judging from the development of China's novel history, since the legendary novels of Tang Dynasty, Song and Yuan Dynasties and Zhang Hui novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties, the legendary narrative has gradually become one of the most popular and accepted narrative modes in the development of China's novels. Therefore, legendary narration is the most distinctive narrative mode and tradition in China.

As a narrative tradition, the poetic, epic or mythical western legendary narrative fills the individual's understanding of social development with a fantasy attitude and breeds the charm of individuals and society, but it is always "heterogeneous and homogeneous" with the legendary narrative mode in ancient China. Therefore, no matter the origin of China's modern novels or the development of China's novels, they are rarely influenced by the western legendary narrative, and always present a track and face of inheriting, transforming and innovating China's "legendary narrative" experience and tradition.

Legends are novels written in the form of biographies of people, mostly with the title of XX biography, which obviously imitates the biographical style of history books. China's historical biographical literature has a long history. Non-biographical history books such as Zuo Zhuan, Guoyu and Warring States Policy in the pre-Qin period recorded many complete stories of characters. The Historical Records written by Sima Qian in the Han Dynasty is a pioneering work of biographical history books and a classic of historical biographical literature. It is not only a model of biographical history books, but also a sample of legendary style. In historical records, the legendary biography of assassin ranger is more similar to legend. In addition, legendary novels often have annotations at the end of each article, which is also influenced by the annotation "Taishi Gong Yue" at the end of each article in Historical Records. The above is the answer to the question that Legend is a novel written for characters in the form of biography and what kind of style it is.