唐人传奇文体规范界定主要集中于作品篇幅、情节结构、文笔描摹、想象虚构等，以此标准甄别界定具体作品，显得比较笼统且存在歧义。唐人单篇传奇作品范围界定，存在着"小说"与集部之传记文、史部"传记"以及"杂史"等混杂出入情况。从唐人小说集中甄选传奇之作，存在着传奇体与笔记体区分、选文定篇分歧出入、标准之严与宽等困惑。现当代学者界定唐人传奇作品范围的个案对于古代小说研究乃至古代文学研究具有重要启示意义。

In order to define the stylistic rules of legends in the Tang Dynasty, scholars always take factors like the works' length, plot structures, depictive writing and imaginational[JP2]content into consideration. It seems ambiguous if scholars take these factors as the standards to determine specific works. In terms of the scope definition of single-piece legends in the Tang Dynasty, there is conceptual confusion among a "novel" and an essay of "biography", a historical "biography" and a piece of "miscellaneous historical story". When selecting legends from novel collections in the Tang Dynasty, scholars are confused about how to distinguish the style of legends from that of notes and they also hold different opinions on texts' selecting as well as on the strictness of the standard. The case of contemporary scholars' scope definition of the legends in the Tang Dynasty is of significance for the study of ancient novels and even the study of ancient literature in general.