Scholarly transformation is one of the most important issues in the field of medieval literature and history research in China, while Tang prose is an indispensable part of Tang literature. Influenced by traditional literary concepts, research on Tang literature pays more attention to poetry than prose. As a result, the relations between Tang scholarly transformation and developmental prose styles are often overlooked. Based on the previous academic paradigms, this thesis explores the interactive relationship between Tang scholars and prose development in Tang Dynasty, by considering the change of times, scholarly transformation and prose styles from Early Tang to Mid-Tang Dynasty as major perspectives. It mainly investigates Tang ethos from the aspects such as the imperial examination system, the establishment of “literature” value, the evolutionary political ideals of “addressing to the monarch of Yao and Shun”, This research focuses on famous scholars who are selected from imperial examination system with different temperament and personalities, such as Wang Bo, Zhang Yue, Li Hua. The investigation is combined with the transformation of different prose styles. Approaching towards Mid-Tang Dynasty, this thesis suggests that the scholars from imperial examination system make breakthrough in medieval political and literary tradition, and reposition their identity since literature is established as a criteria to evaluate social elites, to accomplish the political and social transformation of scholars from imperial examination system and to enable their shift to Confucianism. Along with these changes is the development of prose concepts and styles.

士人轉型是中古文史研究的重中之重，唐代文章是唐代文學不可或缺的重要一極。受傳统文學觀念影響，唐代文學研究過分重詩歌而輕文章，致使唐代士人轉型和文章體式的關係被忽視。在反思以往的研究範式基礎上，將時代變革、士人轉型和文章體式三個因素作為關注視角，以初唐到中唐作為主要時段，探討唐代士人轉型和文章體式的關係。主要對唐代科舉文化、文學價值的確立和“致君堯舜”思想演化等時代思潮進行多線索考察，並以初唐到中唐的文學大家，如王勃、張說和李華等科舉士人的氣質品格轉向為視角，結合各種文形式演變而完成對唐代士人和文章關係的探討。走向中唐意味著，唐代科舉士人在突破中古政治和文學傳统的情况下，因文學被確立為社會評判精英的標準而重新定位自己身份，完成科舉士人政治和社會上的轉型並實現儒學化轉向，與之相伴而行的是文體觀念演進以及文體變創。