《唐語林》是一部關於唐代軼事的宋代筆記。到目前為止，學界對它的研究還不很充分。本文就研究《唐語林》的三個基本問題進行了初步的探討：首先，分析了它的文本歷史和版本；然後，指陳了這部筆記選材的重要面向；最後，討論了《唐語林》的結構框架可能受到哪些影響。本文指出，《唐語林》通過軼事來構造唐代形象的做法，和它的最主要材料來源《國史補》有類似之處。就文本結構以及構建唐代軼事式的文化形象而言，《唐語林》則體現了回歸《世說新語》框架的傾向。在擴展《世說新語》的結構框架時，《唐語林》又同時受到《大唐新語》、《續世說》，和北宋類書編撰傳統的影響。

The Tang yulin 唐語林, a Song dynasty collection of anecdotes about the Tang, remains an understudied text. This article offers an introductory discussion of three issues fundamental to the study of the collection. It first analyzes the textual history and various editions of the Tang yulin; it then presents significant aspects of the collection’s selective use of source material; and finally it discusses possible influences on the structural framework of the text. The article shows that the Guoshi bu 國史補, as the main source text of the Tang yulin, presents a way of constructing an anecdotal image of the Tang that is similar to the Tang yulin. In terms of structure and the construction of an anecdotal cultural image of the Tang, the Tang yulin represents a return to the original categorization scheme of the Shishuo xinyu 世說新 語. In expanding on that original structure by adding new categories, the Tang yulin was simultaneously influenced by the Da Tang xinyu 大唐新語, the Xu shishuo 續世 說, and the Northern Song intellectual tradition of encyclopedic compilations.