A Research on Asymmetric Phenomena in the Beijing Dialect in the Ming Dynasty

The dialect of Beijing occupies an important position in the phonology history of mandarin, but there has never had a universal conclusion as to its historical position in the Ming Dynasty. This article studies the poetic rhyme used by Beijing poets based on the Xue Fen-sheng’s studies on Chinese phonology. Also, combined with Den-yu-tu-jing, it points out that the asymmetry phenomena of phonology of rhyme in poetic prose. It then tries to explain the asymmetric phenomena by following Chomsky’s theory of abundant description and explanation. At last, this article, guided by phonetics, Sassure's judgment of verbal language and historical comparative linguistics, draws a conclusion that Deng-yun-tu-jing and phonology of rhyme in the poetic prose are different.