A Textual Study on the Rhyming System of LU Lun' s Poetry

LU Lun,entitled the best of the top ten talents of Da Li period in the Tang Dynasty(618—907D.C.),his poets are famous and provide an excellent database for the rhyme study of that period.The rhyme in his modern-styled and ancient-styled poems both fall into 28 classes.Most of his poems employ strict rhyme schemes and the Dong Zhong,GengQing are different from Guang Yun.But they present the phonetic change of the spoken language of that time.In spite of the change of rhyme,repetition of the same rhyming word and the use of peculiar rhyming words,few of his poems are out of rhyme.