Rhyming in Zhang Lei's New-style Poems in Northern Song Dynasty

This paper discusses the rhyming in the new-style poems of Zhang Lei who lived in the late Northern Song Dynasty. One outstanding feature of the new-style poetry was the influence of word borrowing and loaning upon the rhyming scope. Cross-rhyming, as revealed from Zhang Lei's classical-style poems, occurred to a various extent in the form of nasal rhyming among words with -m、-n and - as the ending-syllable consonants. The paper concludes that Zhang Lei's rhyming features reflect the phonetic characteristics of Jiang-Huai Mandarin.