论《中州音韵》“入作三声”之实质

The True Nature of Entering Tone as the Third Tone

明代中叶前后的南曲韵书,一直相沿《中原音韵》“入派三声”之旧。这与有明一代南曲演唱用韵的实际情况是相吻合的。王文璧《中州音韵》的“入作三声”,实乃“唱作”,而非“变作”三声,并不会磨灭所据方言语音中入声的实际存在。

The rhyme books for the Southern Opera written around the middle of Ming Dynasty were always following the old saying-＂ entering tone as the third tone＂-of Zhong Yuan Yin Yun. This agrees with the real singing rhymes used by the Southern Opera in Ming Dynasty. Wang Wenbi＇ s ＂entering tone as the third tone＂ in Zhong Yuan Yin Yun means ＂is sung as＂ rather than ＂becomes＂. Such description cannot deny the existence of the entering tones in dialects.