What are the "fourteen cold", "limited rhyme", "rhyme box", "door rhyme" and "thirteen yuan" in the poetry meeting of A Dream of Red Mansions? Thank you.

"Limited rhyme" means that the ancients had strict rhyme requirements when writing poems, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, they generally used rhyme according to the requirements of leveling.

A "rhyme box" is a box that puts rhymes together, that is, a card and a Chinese character. The words in this box are all rhyming.

"Thirteen yuan" and "fourteen cold" are rhymes.

The so-called rhymes in A Dream of Red Mansions, such as Yi Song, Er Xiao and Thirteen Yuan, refer to the representative words of each rhyme. The number of homonymic Chinese characters is uncertain. In order to say a rhyme conveniently, choose a word as a representative, for example, the word "first" in the lower tone represents the rhyme of all Chinese characters with the same rhyme as "first". Numbers such as "one", "two" and "thirteen" indicate the order of rhyme.

Extended data

The above verse comes from Pingyunshui.

Ping Shui Yun was named after its publisher, Liu Yuan, whose ancestral home was Pingshui in Jiangbei (now Linfen, Shanxi).

Ping Shui Yun divides Chinese characters into 65,438+006 rhymes according to the rhyme book used in the Tang Dynasty (the book is lost today), which is an abbreviated version of the earlier Guang Yun with 206 rhymes. Each rhyme part contains several words, which are used as rhyme in rhyme poems. Rhyming words must come from the same rhyme department, and they cannot rhyme or be misused.

During the Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty, Peiwen Yuefu, compiled by later generations, combined Pingshui rhyme into 106 rhyme, which was widely circulated.

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