英文摘要 |
According to the statistics from Tso-fan Tang, there are as many as 1,755 rhyming sentences in The Book of Songs. These rhymes were passed down by Hsiang Cheng in the Song Dynasty and still in use until the Ming and Qing Dynasties. These are the first-hand materials for scholars investigating ancient rhymes, who continuously compile the collection of exquisite ancient rhymes. Starting from the establishment of Republic of China (R.O.C.), studies of poetry rhyming were affected by western linguistics, such as Zhi-wei Lu's Rhyme Scheme of Poetry, Li Wang's An Interpretation of the Rhymes in the Book of Songs, and Hsien Wang's Rhyme Scheme in the Book of Songs, made many improvements in the arrangement of article/section order and rhymes with highlighted rhyming words and punctuations, which are based on You-kao Chiang's An Interpretation of the Rhymes in the Book of Songs published in the Qing Dynasty. These rhyme-interpreting books are of great reference value. It's the author's honor to have been directed by Mr. Yu-chun Long, who is in his 90^(th) birthday, into the study of The Book of Songs. Under the instruction of Mr. Long, the author observed that Mr. Long mainly studied The Book of Songs from the approaches of linguistics and phonology and obtained results that were never discovered by previous scholars. Reading The Book of Songs from the perspective of phonology helps to resolve many issues, such as synonyms, sound changing, and rhyme interpretation. This study mainly gives examples on three aspects, chapter separation, punctuation, and collation, to discuss the relationship between interpretation of the rhymes and reading of The Book of Songs, in celebration of Mr. Long's academic achievement and his 90^(th) birthday. |