Review Of The Using Rhymes For Sanqu Of Xue Lundao, The Sanqujia Of Ming Dynasty

It is one of the important methods of studying Chinese pronunciation development for discovering the ancient pronunciation from the extant literature materials. Predecessors have worked very well in the Tang poems, Song iambic verse and Yuanqu. But it is very seldom found the reviewing of the using rhymes for Beiqu in Ming Dynasty. That is because many works about Qu rhymes are thought: Beiqu of Ming Dynasty still observes Zhongyuan Yinyun written. by Zhou Deqing, Nanqu observes Hongwu Zhengyuan, and we can fundamentally see the pronunciation conditions at that time from these two rhyme books, therefore, the Ming Dynasty's tune works are taken insufficiently, and the research results are very few. And hadn't the Beiqu slightly surmounted Zhongyuan Yinyun's fence? In order to make this question clear, the author reviews the using rhymes for Sanqu of Xue Lundao, the Sanqujia of Ming Dynasty.The author finds his using rhymes are 16 parts, 3 parts("Qin Xun", "Jian Xian" and "Qian Xian") less than Zhongyuan Yinyun, including: "Dong Zhong", "Jiang Yang", "Zhi Si", "Qi Wei", ',Yu Mu", "Jie Lai", "Zhen Wen', "Han Shah", "Huan Huan", "Xian Tian", "Xiao Hao", "Ge Ge", "Jia Ma", "Che Zhe", "Geng Qing", "You Hou". "Qin Xun", "Jian Xian" and "Qian Xian" have Separately belonged to "Zhen Wen", "Han Shan" and "Xian Tian". In addition, "Qi Wei", "Yu Mu" separately have the obviously dividing tendency. And in "Qi Wei" part, most of the [f] [v] initial consonant labial characters are in the "Hui" rhyme. There are 14 times being in "Mu" rhyme from "Yu" rhyme, 13 times appear in the Rusheng characters of the "Yu" rhyme, and these characters have already all changed Over to the [u] rhyme inthe modem Chinese pronunciatiomComparing the using rhymes parts of Xue Lundao with Zhongyuan Yinyun and Hongwu Zhengyun, we discover his using rhymes have his own characteristics. His using rhymes have many phenomenon of one part being in the other parts: Some of them are in rhymes between Yingsheng yun itself, such as "Yu Mu" and "You Hou"; Some of them are in rhymes between Yangsheng yun and Yingsheng yun , such as "Jiang Yang" and "Yu Mu"; Some of them are in rhymes between Yingsheng yun and Yangsheng yun, such as "Jia Ma" and "Zhen Wen"; Some of them are in rhymes between Yangsheng yun itself, such as "Dong Zhong" and "Geng Qing" etc.. Some are because of losing the rhymes, such as "Jiang Yang" being in rhymes to "Yu Mu"; Some are because of borrowing the rhymes, such as "Han Shan", "Huan Huan" and "Xian Yian"; Some are because of the author using broader rhymes, such as "Dong Zhong" and "Geng Qing"; Some reflect the trace of Chinese pronunciation changes, such as "Jie Lai" and "Che Zhe", it reflects the trace that the [k] initial consonant characters of "Jie Lai" lose. their [i] rhyme, tail and flow together with "Che Zhe" part at last; "Yu Mu" and "You Hou" have reflected the You Hou'S labial characters originating from the. Middle Ages have the complicated relation among "Yu Mu" and "You Hou" etc..In addition, the author inducts the omitting characters in Zhongyuan Yinyun and finds all the rhyme characters aren't completely summed up in Zhongyuan Yinyun, the omitting characters such as "ta" "cuo" etc reflect the certain limitation to selecting the characters in Zhongyuan Yinyun.In conclusion, through the study to the using rhymes condition of Xue Lundao's work, we find the using rhymes for Beiqu of Ming Dynasty have its own characteristics, but not all of them obey the Zhongyuan Yinyun.