This paper is intended to analyze the protagonists in the jokes of Xiao-lin-guan-ji—Buddhist monksand num\ns. The jokes can succeed to make people laugh because the difference of the two monks’ images and the exposure of the tacit conditions. Besides, the jokes about the upside-down phenomena: the upper part of the body “head” and the private parts “genitals” actually subvert the social level and the common image in the text. Xiao-lin-guan-ji works in concert with Bakhtin’s “ranzonrechie” and “carnivalization.” It makes the holy monks and townsfolks have a dialogue and the collision at the same time, and clear up the differences between the higher and lower level in the social strata, the clean and unclean in the values, the holy and secular images on the Buddhist monks. Anyway, the jokes about the monks and nuns who do not follow the precepts for Buddhists in Xiao-lin-guan-ji make the topsy-turvy function.