Study On Jiang Yong's Ancient Phonology

As a famous academician of Qing dynasty, Jiang Yong has a lot ofwritings dabbled at science and technology,agriculture and phonology, totaled to 41categories and 270 volumes. In the phonology field, he excelled in the ancientphonology and grade phonology, his composing included "phonology discriminate","distinguish phonology with four tones" and "standard of ancient phonology". Theirstructure inherit mediaeval times script chart. The original ideology andunderstandability content make people regard these books as excellent contribution togain ground the foundation knowledge of phonology. More over, His study mentality isworth while to be followed. He gives attention to phonology, erudition, opinion andmore. The research of Jiang Yong is profuse after his depart. But these research areunilateralism and unformed, hard to avoid dissevering their inherent relation. As a result,this paper plan to review the ideology of ancient phonology macroscopically, then sumup the results and mentality of his research all these works are based on best understandof three books that he had written("phonology discriminate", "distinguish phonologywith four tones" and "standard of ancient phonology"). The paper Emphasis on thefollowing questions: multi rhyme belong to one, epilogue is independency, HongXitheory. Induct people to understand the master's great ideology on investigation.This paper consists of three parts: introduction, straight matter and subsidiary. Thestraight matter includes four chapters:Chapter one is Jiang Yong investigation, Section one comment Jiang Yong's life,his work and writings. Section two quotes others conclusion that studied on Jiang Yong,these researchers includes ancient and present scholars.Chapter two is the writings study. Section one is the study on "phonologydiscriminate". Section two is the study on "distinguish phonology with four tones".Section three is the study on standard of ancient phonology". The length of eachsections accord to their topic.Chapter three is the questions need to be discussed. Aim at three ambiguousconceptions the academe had bring forward. The first question is "what means multirhyme belongs to one? Does it homologous to different rhyme belong to one? What is the relationship between multi rhyme belong to one and four rhyme all along?" Thesecond question is "whether the syllabication is independent? Whether Jiang Yong hadgrappled the way to inter-transfer negative and positive? Whether Jiang Yong had putforward the method to inter-transfer negative and positive?" The third question is "whatdoes the HongXi theory mean?"Chapter four is the study on ancient phonology ideology, sum up the whole paper.This chapter consists of the evaluation of Jiang Yong, his achievement and insufficiency.Each section encloses table or photocopy of original book. Snippet is marked withauthor and page number; strive hard to make the contents well-known.