The new compound words in the novel "New Collection of Anecdotes of Famous Personages" shows a variety of grammatical structural forms when Chinese word building by grammatical structure developed rapidly in the Wei and Jin Period and the main changes are characterized by free formation, discordant morphemes and increasing compound words.

Many corresponding morphological structures in the two languages can be found to have identical semantic meaning and place of use,such as word-end morpheme denoting case,word-end plural morpheme,word-end morpheme denoting end of sentence,and affix.

There are at least three ways to form expressions:formative imitation,semantic imitation and rhetorical imitation,which are sometimes overlapped.