Rhyme and rhythm of poetry

Author: Xu Zhigang (Compiler)
Publisher: Jinan Publishing House
Publication Date: 2002-10-01
Features: This book is comprehensive, applicable, easy to understand, and practical. It not only explains the basic knowledge of poetic rules to beginners and poets but also analyzes and revises poems that do not conform to the rules, providing comparisons. Especially, it solves the common problem many people face: "difficulty in checking the tonal patterns of characters and the rhyme of ancient Chinese poetry and prose." The third part of the book, "Retrieval of Tonal Patterns and Rhymes of Chinese Characters," includes 7,738 characters. Regardless of which character, opening the book and flipping through it in phonetic order allows one to immediately know how the character is pronounced in modern Chinese, whether it is a level tone or oblique tone in ancient Chinese poetry, and which rhyme it belongs to in "Pewen Shi Yun" (a total of 106 rhyme sections). This undoubtedly provides great help to both poets and researchers of poetry. Therefore, the publication of this book is highly meaningful. It plays a positive role in promoting the excellent traditional culture and excellent socialist culture of our country, flourishing poetic creation, and improving people's understanding and appreciation of poetry.