The characters are Traditional Chinese. The grammar is modeled after that of the literary classics written thousands of years ago. (And later works imitating th

The characters are Traditional Chinese. The grammar is modeled after that of the literary classics written thousands of years ago. (And later works imitating that style.) In particular, it uses 是 to mean "this" instead of the verb "to be" and a bunch of characters that are not used for modern vernacular texts, like 曰 "say".