Tang Dynasty Shandong Literati Rhyme

The materials of this thesis are mainly collected from the literary compositions created by 61 literary men lived in Shandong area in Tang Dynasties.Some characteristics of the Shandong area dialects in Tang Dynasties can be revealed.The conclusions read as follows:1 The rhyme in materials can be divided into 26 rime categories:8 YinSheng Rimes阴声韵10 YangSheng Rimes阳声韵,8 entering Rimes入声韵.The phonology in the poetries has already been different from that of Qieyun切韵and that the rime categories have reduced greatly.The familiarly sounded rimes have been converged gradually.2 The rhyming system used in verse in Shandong area are much the same as that used in the rest northern area,but Some phonological features of Shandong dialects were shown in Tang Dynasty.For example:The labial of You Hou Rime尤侯韵had not been classified into Yu Mo Rime鱼模部;Yuan Rime元into HanXian Rime寒先.;The Shan She山摄could be divided into 3 categories:Wen rime文韵used only;Yuan Rime元had been into HanXian Rime寒先,although mingled with Hun Hen Rime魂痕sometime;Zhen Chun Zhen Xin Rime真谆臻欣mingled with each other freely.And these three categories seemed different from each other greatly.The Ping sheng of Qi Rime齐韵could been classified into Qi Wei Rime齐微部,but Ji Rime霁and Ji Rime祭were still within Xie She蟹摄.Dong Rime东could been seen used only many times although which had been mingled with Zhong Rime,and Hao Rime豪were separated from Xiao Yao萧肴.3 The voiced initials had been voiceless,and the voiced rising tones had changed into departing tones were confirmedly reflected by the materials.4.By analyzing numbers of entering Rimes入声韵in the rhyme system,we can see that the ending -p is very different from the other two endings,we bring forward a hypothesis on the disappear of Rushing rhyme:at first,the ending -t and -k changed into glottal stop -(?),then the ending -p turned into -(?)as well and after a long time,the Rushing rhyme finally disappeared in Mandarin.