Li Weng's Rhyming Dictionary(Chinese Edition)

Large-print edition with pinyin annotations. Scan the QR code to listen to the audio. 大字注音版，扫码可听音频 Li Weng's Rhyming Couplets is a traditional primer that has been passed down from the Qing Dynasty to the present day. It is primarily used to teach children the fundamentals of composing couplets (dui), prosody, and historical and literary allusions. The book is organized according to the thirty rhyme categories of the Pingshui rhyme system, with the number of entries varying from two to four per category depending on its breadth, totaling 720 rhymed characters. The work is divided into two parts-the Upper Level Tone and the Lower Level Tone-and does not include the Rising, Departing, or Entering tones. As a primer on rhyme and prosody, another key feature of this book is its focus on composing couplets (dui). In this context, dui refers to paired phrases that match in the number of characters, with corresponding parts of speech and tonal patterns-specifically, the first line ends with a Rising or Departing tone, and the second with a Level tone. The book contains a total of 90 couplet passages, each comprising 78 characters and consisting of ten paired lines. These paired lines come in various lengths: single-character pairs, two-character pairs, three-character pairs, five-character pairs, seven-character pairs, and eleven-character pairs. Specifically, there are 180 single-character pairs, 360 two-character pairs, 90 three-character pairs, 90 five-character pairs, 90 seven-character pairs, and 90 eleven-character pairs. 《笠翁对韵》是一本自清代流传至今的蒙学读物，主要用于蒙童学习属对、声律、知识典故等。该书以平水韵三十韵部为纲目，依韵部宽窄而增减，数量由二则至四则不等，总计720个韵字。全书分上平声和下平声两部，没有上、去、入声三部。作为韵类蒙学读物，另一特点便是属对行文。属对即对对子，上下句字数相等，词性相对且不重复，平仄相对且仄起平收。书对文共计90则，每则对文为78字，每则对文有十组对句，对句包括单字对、双字对、三字对、五字对、七字对、十一字对，其中一字对180组、双字对360组、三字对90组、五字对90组、七字对90组、十一字90组。