On the Application of Ru Rhyme in Poetry from Hebei and Shanxi During the Jin Dynasty

[[abstract]]入聲字從何時開始相互混用，它又是以怎樣的形式進行融合，是否從中國北方 官話逐漸形成的，是研究漢語語音學學者一向好奇的主題。民國初年的學者白滌洲、 魏建功即已提出他們的推論，以為入聲字逐漸消失是從中國的西北向東發展，時間 大約自宋、金、元代前後。 中國河北大學劉淑學於2000 年發表《中古入聲字——在河北方言中的讀音研 究》，指出在河北149 個縣市裡，在其西部、西北部、西南部有33 個存在入聲音， 亦即河北省、山西省交界的北、中、南共有33 個存在入聲音。 金元兩朝係北方女真、蒙古族統治中國的北方，並以北京為首都，筆者即欲以 金、元時期河北、山西兩地之「詞」為押韻現象語料，藉此探究金元河北、山西兩 地在入聲音方面實際的語音現象，期能有所發現。[[abstract]]The study of Ru rhyme has always been an interesting topic for Chinese phonology scholars. When did it start intermixing, and how did it become integrated with other words? How did it gradually become intermixed with the official language from the North? After studying the early years of Min Gou (after the Qing Dynasty), the scholars Bai Di Zhou and Wei Jian Gong proposed their theory which suggested that Ru rhyme had gradually vanished when Chinese started developing from the Northwest to the East of the mainland during the Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties. Scholar Liu Shuxue of Hebei University of China published a thesis, “Medieval Ru Rhyme—The Study of Hebei Dialect Pronunciation,” in 2000 which claimed that there are 33 Ru rhyme words in the western, northeastern and southwestern regions among the counties and cities in Hebei province. In other words, there are 33 Ru rhyme words in existiance in northern, central and southern parts near the border of Hebei and Shanxi. During the Jin and Yuan dynasties, Jurchen and Mongols ruled northern China and established their capitals in Beijing. To make a thorough study of Ru rhyme practice in phonology, the researcher proposes to explore rhyming phenomenon in prose from Hebei and Shanxi during the Jin and Yuan dynasties. It is hoped that this will lead to a major breakthrough in this field of study