Represented by the works such as Yi Meng Lu,Qin Meng Ji and Xiang Zhong Yuan Jie,the novel works of Shen Yazhi of the Tang Dynasty show a typical style that shares a similar tone with Qu Yuan's Chu Ci poetry but belongs to a different era,known as the"Sao style"literary style.Shen Yazhi absorbed the unique Xi-character stylistic paradigm,as well as the romantic and natural expression of emotions and melan-cholic beauty of feeling of"Sao style".These features distinguished Shen's works from those of his contempora-ries..The legendary Sao style literary characteristics are reflected in the aesthetic connotation that finds beauty in sadness,their romantic and unrestricted artistic forms,as well as a mixed and melancholy art style.The leg-endary stories created by Shen Yazhi,which exibit distinctive characteristics of Sao style literature,can also be referred as"Chu Diao novels".The unique literary characteristics in Shen Yazhi's legends set his works a-part among numerous other legends,making him a remarkable figure of his time.