Eight Poetic Styles: Chen Wangdao

Wang Li is the most diligent in phonology. In his early years, he specialized in experimental phonetics in France, and he wrote Experimental Record of Bobai Dialect (193 1). His book China Phonology (renamed China Phonology when reprinted in 1936 and 1955) explains the concept of traditional phonology with modern phonology theory, and describes the basic contents of traditional modern phonology (Guang Yun phonology), ancient phonology and homophones. In addition, Wang Li has published a series of phonological papers. For example, textual research on the rhymes of poets in the Northern and Southern Dynasties (1936), research on ancient vowel system (1937), research on Sino-Vietnamese language (1948), and division and acceptance of intonation and sound in ancient Chinese (1960). Comments on Huang Kan's ancient phonology (1978), examples of unvoiced ancient sounds (1980), textual research on classical definitions (1982), Chinese phonology (1962), and Chu rhyme. Wang Li's contributions to ancient sounds are as follows: ① Lipid and differential parts. Wang Li, inspired by his predecessors, used the materials of pre-Qin rhymes and homophones to separate the microscopic part that is opposed to literature and events from the fat part that is opposed to truth and quality. This conclusion has been recognized by ordinary scholars. (2) In the structure of ancient rhymes, it is argued that each rhyme has only one main vowel, and all vowels are syllables. Gao Benhan's theory (each rhyme has more than two main vowels, most of which are voiced-□, -d, -b, -r, etc. ) has been modified. ③ It is considered that ancient tones are divided into two categories, namely, long and short tones and long and short tones, and then evolved into four tones: flat, up, far and forward. This proves that in ancient tones, apart from pitch, sound length also played a great (even major) role. In his view, this proposition can explain the fact that many consonant characters in ancient times (that is, long-entering, which was pronounced as disyllabic in many ways in the Middle Ages) were juxtaposed with consonant characters (that is, short-entering), and it is also similar to the common feature of vowel division in many languages of Sino-Tibetan language family. This statement has attracted the attention of comparative linguists who study Chinese and Tibetan.

Wang Li has been engaged in the study of Chinese vocabulary since the 1940s, and has published Death, Remains and the Cycle of Old Words (194 1), The Generation of New Words (1942), The Ideal Dictionary (1945) and The Book of Words. Two papers, New Exegetics (1947) and Some Problems in Exegetics (1962), have made a serious summary and criticism of China's traditional exegetics. He also advocated the establishment of new Chinese semantics from the perspective of historical development. His cognate dictionary (1982) is a representative work of carrying out his own lexicology thought.

Wang Li's descriptive and historical research on Chinese phonetics, grammar and vocabulary is concentrated in the book Historical Manuscripts of Chinese (upper, middle and lower, 1957 ~ 1958). At the end of 1970s, it was revised and rewritten into three books: History of Chinese Phonetics (1985), History of Chinese Grammar and History of Chinese Vocabulary. His Linguistic History of China (198 1) gives a comprehensive description and preliminary summary of China's linguistic research and heritage since 2000. The book Ancient Phonology in Qing Dynasty mainly introduces and comments on the research achievements of Jiang Yong, Duan Yucai, Dai Zhen, Kong Guangsen, Wang Niansun, Zhu, Jiang Youpei and modern Zhang and Huang Kan. Other owners

Ancient Chinese (1962 ~ 1964, ***4 volumes, revised by 1980) is novel in teaching system and rich in content, which has been widely praised at home and abroad.

Wang Li attaches importance to the application of language. He has done a lot of research and promotion in Chinese character reform, Chinese standardization and Putonghua promotion. As early as the 1930 s, he advocated the reform of writing and the use of romanization. The monograph "Chinese Character Reform" published by 1940 analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of current Chinese characters and the possibility of reform, and puts forward the reform plan. After 1949, he participated in the research work of Chinese character simplification, Chinese pinyin scheme formulation, Putonghua promotion and Chinese standardization, and published many papers.

Wang Li is also a poet. His Poetics of China (1958) made a thorough study of the metrical and linguistic features of China's ancient poems. The two papers published by 1962, The Beauty of Language Form in China's Classical Literary Theory and On the Beauty of Language Form, are another important achievement of his study of poetic language, which attracted wide attention in the poetic circles at that time. Wang Li is also a poet, and he is the author of "The Carving of Dragons and Insects" (1984).

Wang Li has more than 40 monographs and nearly 200 papers on linguistics, covering almost all fields of linguistics, many of which are groundbreaking. These works are being compiled into Collected Works of Wang Li, with a total of 20 volumes. The first three volumes were published in 1985. Wang Li donated the manuscript fee for this book and established the "Peking University Wang Li Linguistics Award", which was selected and awarded from 1986.