"Bell, Gongs and Wooden Fish" is the first work of Venerable Master Hsing Yun. The article was called ‘Monogatari’ ,traditional Japanese literature, when published in a Buddhist magazine, and the masterpieces were "Words of the Big Bell", "Words of the Rosary", "Words of the Incense Board", etc. One introduces the common artifacts in Buddhism, and then uses ancient sarcasm to reflect the reality and disadvantages of Buddhism at that time. Furthermore, he delivered common knowledge of Buddhism and core teachings of the Buddha. This book contains the thought of the Grand Master and ambitions for Buddhism at his early time, and is a work worth of researching. This dissertation uses "Bell, Gongs and Wooden Fish" as the research text to explore the ideological content and literary performance of the book. The second and third chapter focuses on the ideological content, and the second chapter explores the book's creative trends and innovative ideas, as well as the inspiration of Humanistic Buddhism. The third chapter first analyzes the philosophies contained in the title of the book, and then discusses the core teachings of Buddhism, such as impermanence, compassion, and the concept of karma from the quotation or story of scriptures. At last, it summarizes some topics of concern in this book, and adapts to the needs of modern people. The fourth and fifth chapters focus on the literary performance of this book. The fourth chapter analyzes the book's narrative features, express the facts and arguments in a proper way which includes before and after, it makes good uses of humorous and tortuous to argument. Addionally, it summarizes writing styles obviously, as following, it also make good use of short sentences to transform the plot, and contrast to highlight the point of view, and the dialogues to broaden perspectives. The fifth chapter studies the art of rhetoric in this book. It first illustrates the application of anthropomorphism in Chinese literature, and then enumerates rhetorical skills such as manifestation, transcription, borrowing, symbolism, questioning, and parallelism and so on. The sixth chapter summarizes the key points of the whole article. It takes Buddhist innovation as the creative force and inspires the thought of Humanistic Buddhism. The rich use of story and dharma doctrines revealed in the book. It can be seen that Venerable Master Hsing Yun wants to convey Buddhist thoughts with new ideas. He focuses on the writing characteristics and rhetoric skills to show the literary performance of the book. This research found the origin of the Humanistic Buddhism of Venerable Master Hsing Yun and the continuity of thought of Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Sangha. The master's dharma thoughts and the literary connotations they reveal deserve the attention of those who want to study the master's ideology and literary.
