A Study On Rhyme Of Wenzhou Guci (????)

Wenzhou Guci(????),as a folk storytelling and singing art,enjoys its popularity in south Zhejiang(??)area,whose standard pronunciation is chengguan area dialect of Rui 'an((??)Wenzhou((??).It's main accompaniment of musical instruments are flat drum,jean made by beef tendon and three pieces of plate.At the meantime,it employs Banqiang-style as its main aria music.On account of the restriction of dialect and region,nowadays the study of Wenzhou Guci(????)is limited to collecting and compiling,which rarely refer to dialect and linguistics.This paper obtains 1787 rhyming sections from 10 verses of Wenzhou Guci(???).Based on the analysis of their rhyming phenomena,it concludes the rhyming features and patterns of Wenzhou Guci(????)preliminarily,which is helpful for the study of Ru 'an(??)dialect as well as the development of Wenzhou Guci(????).This paper is divided into six parts:The first part is an introduction of the background and the current research of Wenzhou Guci(????)as well as the materials and the methods.The second part is to analyze the rhyming patterns and words to do the basic work for the following classification and comparison of the rhyming categories.The third part is about the rhyme system.Rhymes in Wenzhou Guci(????)are divided into 15 categories,concluding 7 Yinsheng rhymes such as GeGe(??),YuMo(??),JieHuai(??),HuiGui(??),ZhiWei(??),ZhiSi(??),YouHou(??),and 8 Yangsheng rhymes,for instance,ShanTa,(??),XianTian(??),HanHuan(??),JiangTang(??),YangTian(??),ZhenWe(??),QingZheng(??),DongZhong(??).There is no Ru rhymes in Wenzhou Guci(????)owing to the glottal stop disapperaring.The forth part is to describe the phenomenon of cross rhyming,such as GeGe(??)and YuMo(??),GeGe(??)and Youou(??),XianTian(??)and ZhiWei(??),XianTian(??)and YangTian(??),ShanTan(??)andT JiangTan(??),GeGe(??),YuMo(??)and YouHou(??),and expound its reasons.The fifth part is the comparative study of the rhyme system of Wenzhou Guci(????)and modern chengguan area dialect of Rui'an(??),HongWu Zheng Yun(??????)and XinDing ZhongZhouQuanYu(????????),in purpose to know the rhyming characteristics of Wenzhou Guci(????)better.The sixth part is to draw conclusions from the above-mentioned analysis.