Zhang Kejiu Study On The Non - Dramatic Songs Rhyme

Zhang Kejiu is the Sanqu writer whose works were descended the most comparing with his peers in the Yuan dynasty, and also the writer who had been studied much in the research history of Sanqu. His works has affected the later works effectively. But researchers often focus on the language, situation, artistic style, aesthetic taste, et al when study Zhang Kejiu's works, and neglect the characteristics of its rhyme and verse-using. So the study aims at filling the blank according to methods that was utilized to study verse-using of other important writer by previous researchers.The article has five chapter.Chapter One is the Introduction, which generalized the previous studies on verse-using of Yuanqu, and anchored the orientation of the article. Then, Zhang Kejiu and his works were introduced briefly in order to define the study object and clarify the research value. Later the research methods on verse-using were explained.In Chapter Two, a complete and exhaustive research on the verse-using in Zhang Kejiu's works was discussed. 1535 rhyme feet and 6598 rhymes were analyzed and induced one by one. Postive-intonation rhymes and negative-intonation rhymes in Zhang's works were listed out, and compared to the Nineteen Schemes in Central plains Phonology. At last, verse-using by Zhang was compared with those of Guang, Zheng, Bai and Ma, the Four Important Writers in Yuanqu composition, and Qiao Ji's List of Verse-using in Yuanqu, and the conclusion that verse-using by Zhang was sterner and more accurate was made.In Chapter Three, the characters of entering tone in Zhang's Sanqu were studies specifically, and the state of Allocation of Rusheng in Zhang's works was investigated carefully. All of the characters of entering tone in Zhang's works were listed and signed their places in middle ancient phonology, and were allocated to responding categories in Central plains Phonology. Conclusion were made by comparing such characters to the real facts of verse-using by Zhang, rhymes and tones in rhyme pedigree.In Chapter Four, the characters of verse-using by Zhang were compared with those collected in Central plains Phonology. All the characters that had not been collected by Central plains Phonology were listed out, and classified into three groups to analyze with the references of others researches, so to card the confusing status of in most researches, which only collected the phonetics with no characters and classified roughly.In Chapter Five, the whole article was summarized.