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上古音（Ancient tone） Eight. Introduction to ancient phonology. Phonetics is the stuff of speech. This is not a problem for modern chinese. But for ancient Chinese, this became a big problem. Therefore, the way to study ancient Chinese language can only be indirect. There are usually two main ways to go. One is through the study of ancient books or materials for the study of ancient Chinese Fanqie phonetic speech, the other one is through the study of ancient verse or other written materials for the study of ancient Chinese speech. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties and there is no yunyin Fanqie phonetic materials, so we can only through the verse or other written materials to study the speech. These verses or written material mainly is Book of Songs. Study on the Book of Songs can make us understand the ancient rhyme system. The usual method of research is called the tie method. The use of the law, the Book of Songs as a rhyme word together, become a rhyme, which concludes a rhyme. For example, Meng in the following sentences: A Chi Chi, trade commodities. Bandit come, trade silk, come and I plan. Songzi to Qi, as far as dunqiu. Bandits I period, sub unscrupulous media. Will not anger, autumn think period. Some of the words rhyme. In the poem gentleman in service, period and Zai, come and think rhyme. In the poem spring water, the word Ji rhymes with Qi and Ji. In the poem Xiang Bo, the word Qiu is in rhyme with the poem. According to the word link that phonology of this rhyme. Different scholars have different views on the division of ancient rhyme. Mr. Wang Li summed up the ancient rhyme Department into 11 categories, altogether 30 rhymes. Study on ancient Chinese initials are not so easy. Scholars generally through the system of ancient pictophonetic characters, variant, etc. to explore the ancient note of ancient Chinese. For example, sadness and Philippines, Peng and sewing, feeding and auxiliary sound symbols like B, P, F, visible three consonants in ancient times i