The basic meaning of poetic rhyme

Vowels used to form rhyming cycles such as poetry are called rhymes. China has paid attention to the harmonious rhyme of poetry since ancient times. For example, China's first poetry anthology, The Book of Songs, has paid full attention to rhyme. The first four sentences of 300 poems "The Wind Blows Nan Zhou to Watch Snails": "The turtle watching dove is in the river continent. My Fair Lady, My Gentleman's Pleasure "is an example of rhyme. "Poetry rhyme, in a broad sense, also includes rhyme, in a narrow sense, only refers to the rhyme book on which metrical poetry is based. Now it generally refers to the horizontal rhyme of 106 rhyme obtained by the merger of Qieyun and 206 rhyme. Words with different initials but the same vowel, such as dry, full and sigh, can rhyme with each other. These rhyming words are placed at the end of the same sentence to form the rhyme of the poem.

One of the earliest rhyming books in ancient China is The Sound compiled by Ren Wei Li Deng in the Three Kingdoms Period, which has not been circulated so far. Qieyun, the first comprehensive rhyme book compiled by Lu Yan in the Sui Dynasty in 60 1 year, has also been lost. According to textual research, all the contents of Qieyun are embodied in Guang Yun. Guang Yun is the most complete, oldest and most important rhyme book. A complete and detailed record of the language system in the Middle Ages (from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the end of the Song Dynasty). Today's scholars can know the basic situation of the initials, finals and tones of the Middle Ages according to Guang Yun. Scholars also take Guang Yun as a bridge to promote ancient sounds (sounds before the Han Dynasty) and modern sounds (modern and contemporary sounds). Therefore, Guang Yun is an indispensable classic for studying the history of Chinese phonetics and contemporary Chinese dialects.

After the Qing Dynasty, Pingyunshui was widely used, with four tones of *** 106 rhyme. The third and fourth strange situations witnessed in the past twenty years: "I learned to speak with a roll of rhyme, but it can be effective."

Rhyme is an important means to enhance the musicality of poetry. Modern poetry pays great attention to rhyme in order to make the tone harmonious and easy to remember. The ancients usually used official books that specially instructed the use of rhyme, such as Tang Yun, Guang Yun, Libu Rhyme, Peiwenyun, Poetic Rhyme Integration and Poetic Rhyme Combination. Among them, the rhyme of Pingshui New Publication by Wang Jinwenyu is the most popular, which is what the world calls "Pingshui Rhyme".

But what needs to be understood is that it is not worth destroying the essence of poetry in order to accommodate rhyme. Unless you take part in the imperial examination, even if a sentence or two rhymes occasionally, the ancients are allowed.