Research On The Sound Of Medieval 'RuSheng' Characters In Guangping Dialect

GuangPing lies in the south-eastern part of Hebei Province,encompassing three Chinese dialects,Jin dialect,Jilu Mandarin and the Zhongyuan mandarin.GuangPing dialect is especially distinctive in terms of the phenomenon of Ru Sheng,which deserves more attention and research.The Ru Sheng becomes more and more dense from the North-east to South-west in China.It reflects the transitivity and the Change of language.It embraces much research.This thesis takes medieval Ru Sheng of morden pronunciation as the research object.Geographically,GuangPing can be divided into three parts,the south-west County (Shuang Miao county),the central part(the town of Guang Ping,the country of NanYangBao, the country of ShiliPu),the north-east(the country of NanHanCun,the town of PingGuDian, the country of DongZhang Meng).Sixteen points are selected to invest,describe,compare and analyze,hoping to observe the evolution of the rules and characteristics of the RuSheng synchronically.By synchronic aspect,it means the three generations,the old age,the middle age,and the youth,hoping to study the dynamic development of the entering tone from the change of the time.The paper also describes and analyzes the phenomenon of WenBai associated with the RuSheng and the phenomenon ShuShengCuHua.The paper includes five main parts:The first part is an overview.First of all,the introduction of GuangPing including the geographical situation,the evolution of history and the features of dialects;The second part makes a brief summary of the research findings of Jin dialect,which includes studies of early-jin dialect and the studies of Jin dialect since eighties twenty-first century;The last one is the aim,value and the train of thought of the thesis.The second part is the internal differences between the Ru Sheng of Guangping dialect analyzing the characteristics of entering tone of Guangping dialects though the differences in the southwest,central,and north-eastern part.Firstly,The Ru Sheng becomes more and more weak from south-west to the north-east.Shu Hua RuSheng word and RuSheng word turn to Yinping Yangping and QuSheng,which increases more and more,while trend of RuSheng decreases.Secondly,from the disappearance of RuSheng,in mose cases,the GuQingRu and the CiZhuoRu Turn to RuSheng,then to YinPingYangPing,then to ShangSheng;in most cases the QuanZhuo turns to YangPing,then to RuSheng,then to ShangSheng.The third part focuses on the differences among the different age groups in the entering tone at the central GuangPing.First of all,the differences exist in the sound of some RuSheng words in different ages,the main vowel decreasing from"e"to"(?)"also more and more closely to Mandarin.Secondly,analyzing concretely the tones' types situation of the RuSheng words in all ages.The fourth part is the differences of the RuSheng between the Classical Chinese and the YunShe.Making a Statistics of the differences between the Classical Chinese and the YunSheng at the situation of the distribution in acienst ancient initial and Yunshe;having studied the relationship between the reading of WenBai and the vocabulary.The fifth part deals with the phenomenon of ShuShengCuHua.There are two features of the ShuSheng CuHua of GuangPing dialect:1.The small quantity of the words.It doesn't become a trend like Shu Hua;2.most of Cu Hua and Shu Hua are exsisted at the same time apart from very few figures,moreover,Cu Hua only appear in some words.This passage also analyzes their features and rules though the old tone categories and the language situation they emerge。...