Studies On He Bing Zi Xue Pian Yun Bian Lan

He Bing Zi Xue Plan Yun Bian Lan is a Chinese phonology book written with great reform during late Ming Dynasty. Based on the grand old men and other scholars' productions, we've studied the book's background, author, copyright as well as the system of Chinese initials and Chinese finals and tones wholly, in order to reveal its features and significance.Bian Lan's copyright belongs to Zhang Yuanshan, because he organized people to compile and publish it. Xu Xiao is not author but the one employed by Zhang Yuanshan to do the work.Bian Lan is not a single phonetic system, it's based on Beijing dialect and some other elements examined and approved by the author on purpose.There are nineteen Chinese initials in Bian Lan, not twenty-two established in the book. All voiced initials have already evolved into unvoiced initials; Zhi, Zhuang, Zhang have evolved into one group, just as mandarin. The two groups of Jing and Jianare on the way to the stage of palatalization from which the group of dorsal initials hasn't evolved except the word Jia . Ying, Wei, Yi, Yun, Yi have assembled as zero initial.The important features of the forty-six Chinese finals in Bian Lan are as follows: first, there is a pattern of Kai, Qi, He, Cuo in it, while the final y gets independency. Some words ,such as Er, Er and Er have belonged to the initial Ying, which reflect the fact that the final sr has come into being. Most of the second grade words of velar and glottal have produced -i- medial. The ending of -m has developed into -n. Labial words are equal to mandarin, most of which dose not follow the rhyme chart. Many words have more than one pronunciation, which reflects the sound evolution of Beijing dialect.There are such four tone classes in Bian Lan as upper-even tone, lower-even tone, rising-tone and falling tong which like mandarin. The entering tone allocates to the other three tones. The fact that most of the entering tone words attached to unvoiced initials have merged into falling tone words reflects instability in early days.Syllabary is the general picture of Bian Lan's phonetic system.