The ancient contract document is one important part of the ancient literature of our country. It is a kind of documents with vouchers which is formed by people’s communication in social economy, social relation, etc. There is a long history of contract documents in China And there are a lot of document characteristics formed in its developing process which have special document values. As for language study, contract documents also play one part. They are data materials that can ensure the reliability and authenticity of the study. And as for data materials with strong region, they can be reference for the study of historical dialectic vocabularies. It’s also explores a new way for the research of vocabularies. So they are highly regarded.The contract document refers to the economic problem, which is indispensable with the use of value and kind of price. The article studies in the development of the word value and price from the ancient contract documents to explore the conditions of the development in Chinese vocabulary. On the basis of citing the meaning of these words, the article is also compares the differences in word usage of the other documents, analyzes the morphology and the conditions of development of the words, inspect the phenomenon of the using dialect words. In one respect of word-building, the constitute of values and prices in order to focus on three morpheme called’zhi’,’jia’,’qian’, be used for building a kind of meaning-related vocabularies. In terms of time uses, the value of contract document and words of prices appear later than other documents. It is mainly confirmed to be dialect vocabularies if it’s be missing. |