| 《Zu Tang Ji》,a twenty-volume zen records,was edited by two bonzes — Jing and Yun of Zhaoqing in Quan Zhou in Nantang Dynasty. It is one of earlier zen annals, which was completed in the Baoda tenth year in Nantang Dynasty (952 A.D.). This precious book had been lost in our country and it was not until the 1980s that it had been returned to the mainland. It is possessed of the literature worth about religion and language. Many researchers study emulatively emulatively after it comes back.The language of 《Zu Tang Ji》 is extremely characteristic of the half classical Chinese and the half modern Chinese ,and of the mixture of the two kinds of Chinese. In this book ,we can find lots of words which were belong of that time.( the Tang Dynasty and the Nantang dynasty ). And it keeps. |