The Study Of The Rhymes Of LiYu’s Operas

The study of phonology is an important content in the research of Chinese pronunciati on history.This essay studied the rhyme in all the remaining works of LiYu,the drama writer in late Ming and early Qing Dynasty.Through contrasting the same Qupai of KangXi Opern and determine the parallelism rhyming words,It takes nineteen rhyme-components of The Phonology of Central Plains as its frame to study which rhyme-component the rhyme words should belong to,the mutual rhyme phenomenon of different rhyme-components in LiYu’operas.This paper is a comprehensive exhaustive investigation and Research on the rhyme of Li Yu’s drama.As Li Yu’s opera works with the overall appearance of the rhyme is still blank,therefore,this topic will be based on his opera works,to study his opera with rhyme.Study of Li Yu’s opera works from the view of phonology,the study of this period with the rhyme corpus of phonetic features,provide materials for the history of modern Chinese speech tone dialect research,history research.At the same time,Li Yu also puts forward a complete set of drama theory,So we can take the Li Yu opera works and opera theory with specific comparison.By examining the actual situation of its rhyme in order to make up for their predecessors to study the vacancy.The study of rhyme needs to combine a variety of methods,"historical comparison method" and "historical document research method" are phonological use of the traditional method,Lu Guoyao gets these two methods together,forming a "new double Evidence law ",that is,the results of the textual research and contemporary dialect mutual confirmation,revealing the historical voice appearance.In this paper,the result of Li Yu’s Opera rhyme is compared with that of The Phonology of Central Plains,in order to draw the rhyme of the concrete practice.Through the comparison of the ancient and modern,and the comparison of the common language and the dialect,we can judge the special rhyme.The process of writing also uses the rhyme word method,induction method and arithmetic statistic method.Through investigation of Li Yu’s operas rhymes,the paper concludes 7 categories of Negative-intonation rhymes,4 categories of Postive-intonation rhymes and 4independent enter-intonation rhymes.The rhymes in Liyu’s works are different from those in The Phonology of Central Plains first in the division and combination of the rhyme categories.Li’s operas conclude 7categories of Negative-intonation rhymes,Qi Wei(齐微)、ZhiSi(支思)and YuMu(鱼模)have merged.4 categories of Postive-intonation rhymes in his operas,among them,GengQing(庚青)、ZhenWen(真文)and QinXun(侵寻)have merged,HanShan(寒山)、XianTian(先天)、HuanHuan(桓欢)、JianXian(监咸)and LianXian(廉纤)have merged,too.At the same time,there exists the phenomenon of mutual rhyming between individual rhymes.and second difference in the collection of rhyme words.The author mainly from the dialect of rhyme,rhyme and reason with antique sound and on another phase special rhyme phenomenon was explained and the professional but because of limited capacity,there are some special rhyme phenomenon in doubt.The innovation of this paper lies in the last part of the article,select the combination of linguistics and literature,the combination of Li Yu’s theory Xian Qing Ou Ji and Li Weng Ci Yun combined with the concrete practice of this paper,From the music and song rhyme two aspects of the comparison,the creation of Li Yu opera in the use of rhyme has a more comprehensive understanding.Because of the age,social atmosphere and purpose of creation of Li Yu,it is found that the theory of opera creation and practice have contradictory situations,and to some extent,it also reflects the dialectical relationship between theory and practice.