Traditional Hub Of Changsha Play The Rhyming

Hua-gu opera is a traditional local opera, performed in the country of Hunan province. Its unvarnished style and rhetoric suits the mood of many people, therefore, the local linguistic cornpetence mirrors oral colloquial expression among its popular area. This paper is based on the acting texts of traditional Hua-gu opera in Changsha. We have made exhaustive research on the rhyme of 28 traditional ]?lays with 573 rhyme units. By analyzing and connecting the metrical fee.t, this paper sums up the rhyme categories which consist of 12 rhyme categories, that is, 9 Yin-sheng, 3 Yang-sheng.This dissertation consists of five chapters. ChapterⅠintroduces the intention, significance and methods of the research from the angle of Chinese historical phonetics. Following the course of re-examining materials, ChapterⅡsurveys the pattern of rhyme, excerpting the metrical feet, ChapterⅢconnects the rhyme categories, the rhyme of different systems contacting with each other, and literary reading and colloquial reading. ChapterⅣcompares the rhyme cateories of traditional Hua-gu opera in Changsha with traditional rhyme tablesd (lengthways), as well as those of traditional Hua-gu opera in Shaoyang(across). The total study is conducted to become united with dialect. ChapterⅤcontains the surplus discussion with three theories: the rhyming quality, the connection between rhyme categories and oral speech, between those of literary readings in traditional Hua-gu opera. At last, there is an appendix which introducing some worthy materials, that is, the history, the institution, the performances, the traditional plays, the language, the music and the monographs.