Pocket Rhyme Dictionary

Author: Lin Donghai
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Publishing Date: 2000-07-01
Features: The term "poetic rhyme" refers to the "Pingshui Rhyme" (compiled initially by Liu Yuan of Pingshui during the Chunxi period of the Song Dynasty), also known as the "One Hundred and Six Rhymes" (when Wang Wenyu of the Jin Dynasty revised and published it, the rhyme sections were divided into 106 parts). The most widely circulated versions are the Qing Dynasty edition of Pewen Shi Yun and the combined publication of Shi Yun, Shi Xi, and Ci Lin Dian Xi as Shi Yun He Bi.
Pingshui Rhyme has been the sole rhyme reference for traditional Chinese poetry since the Yuan Dynasty. In light of the growing number of practitioners of classical poetry, it is highly necessary to compile a Pingshui Rhyme rhyme book that closely aligns with modern. The newly edited and organized Pewen Shi Yun by Mr. Lin retains the complete form of the rhyme characters in Pingshui Rhyme, while the paired disyllabic words (with rhyme characters at the end) are adjusted based on modern linguistic conditions, making them more convenient to use. For obscure and outdated dead languages, only the rhyme characters are retained, and no words are provided; for commonly used rhyme characters, the number of associated words is increased. For example, the character "peng," which has seven paired disyllabic words in Shi Yun He Bi, now has nineteen in this book.