Song Dynasty Tong Chuan Rd Poet Rhyming

By making an exhausive study of the rhyming of 4434 poems written by 81 poets,who were from Tongchuan(潼川)in the Song (宋) Dynasty, the article has generalised their rhyming system which consists of 17 rhyme categories, that's is to say,7 Yin-sheng (阴声) ,6 Yang-sheng(阳声)and 4 Ru-sheng(入声).Compared with the system used in the common language in the Song(宋)Dymsty,it has merged category Zhen-wen(真文)into category Geng-qing(庚�'),and the new one is called catego ry Zhen-qing(真�').Some dialect information has revealed in the rhyming system used by the poets from Tongchuan( 潼川),for example, category Ge(歌) contacts with category Hao(豪),Yu(鱼)vfith You(尤), Zhi(支) with Yu(鱼), Yang-ping(阳平) branches and so on.However,there is no dialect sign in modern dialects in Tongchuan(潼川)and Sichuan (四川)for particular historic reason,but it's most close to the ryhyming characteristics in Fujian(福建) in the Song(宋)Dynasty and modern dialects in Fujian(福建).The reason,perhaps, is that the two areas have the same immigrants speaking same dialects,and the two dialects take same forms in the similar processes.In a word, the language used in the rhyming system in Tongchuan(潼川)is the common language but is much influenced by dialects,in other words,the regional variants of the common language.