四声与南北音

The Relationship between the Four Tones of Classical Chinese Pronunciation and Dialects Existed in South and North China

四声的发现、研究与运用是永明新诗体产生的重要基础和必要条件。四声发现之时正是吴音与洛下音,即南方音与北方音双音并存的时期。南北音系之间的相互对比,促进了汉字语音之间的比较语音学的产生。四声的发现是在汉语内部的不同语音之差别辨析中产生的,它在诗歌写作中提出,又在诗歌写作中实验并得到完善的归纳。

When the four tones had been realized in China, it was the same time that Wu dialect and Luo Xia dialect, which were instead of the south and north pronunciation, been existed in the same area. The comparative phonetics had been appeared consulted to the comparison between these two local dialects. The four tones of classical Chinese was been realized through the different ways of pronunciations which existed in the inner system of Chinese. It was related with the comparison and the connection of the south and north pronunciation. The question about the existence of the four tones of classical Chinese had been proposed in the progress of writing poems, meanwhile, it was been systematized in the practice of the poetic creations.