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Three Academic Trends of Versification Theories of Regulated Verse in the Early and Middle Qing Dynasty

Liu Yang   

  1. the School of Humanities, China University of Political Science and Law
  • Online:2018-09-25 Published:2018-11-28
  • About author:Liu Yang, Ph.D. in Literature, is a lecturer at the School of Humanities, China University of Political Science and Law, with main research interest in classical Chinese philology and literature of the Qing dynasty.
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Abstract: It is generally accepted that the current versification standard of regulated verse established in the Tang dynasty remains unchanged over one thousand years. However, until the early and middle Qing dynasty, there were actually at least three different academic trends of versification theories of regulated verse. This article concentrates on three representative publications, Four Studies of Regulated Verse by Li Zongwen, The Definite Form of Regulated Verse by Wang Shizhen, and The Sound Manual of Poetry by Yun Zonghe, in order to demonstrate the diversity of the versification theories in the early and middle Qing dynasty. The versification standard of regulated verse is not an unvarying "law", but an academic question that deserves discussion and a knowledge system that keeps changing and developing in history.

Key words: Four Studies of Regulated Verses, The Definite Form of Regulated Verses, The Sound Manual of Poetry, versification, the reform of imperial examinations in 1757

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