The general category of Pingshui rhyme includes five parts: upper level, lower level, upper tone, falling tone and entering tone. If you want to query the rhyme part of a certain word in Pingshui Yun, you can use online tools such as Yundian.com to search.
Shangping tones include Yidong, Erdong, Sanjiang, Sizhi, Wuwei, Liuyu, Qiyu, Baqi, Jiujia, Shihui, Elevenzhen, Twelve Wen, and Thirteenyuan , fourteen cold, fifteen deleted. Xia Ping tones include Yi Xian, Er Xiao, San Yao, Si Hao, Wu Ge, Liu Ma, Qi Yang, Ba Geng, Jiu Qing, Shi Zheng, Eleven You, Twelve Invasion, Thirteen Tan, Fourteen Salt, Ten Five salty.
The upper tones include Yidong, Erzhuang, Sanjiao, Sizhi, Wuwei, Liuyu, Qiqiao, Baqiao, Nine crabs, ten bribes, eleven Zhen, twelve kisses, and thirteen Ruan, Shishihan, Shiwu, etc. Qusheng includes Yisong, Ersong, Sanjiang, etc. Entering sounds include Yiwu, Erwo, etc.
Pingshui rhyme is a classification method of Chinese character rhyme. It was summarized and compiled by Liu Yuan of the Southern Song Dynasty on the basis of "The Rhyme of Renzi New Issue of the Ministry of Rites". ***One Hundred and Six Rhymes . The rhymes of Pingshui rhyme include fifteen parts for the upper level tone, fifteen parts for the lower level tone, twenty-nine parts for the upper tone, thirty parts for the falling tone, and seventeen parts for the entering tone.
In the early Tang Dynasty, Xu Jingzong proposed merging and revising the rhyme books. In the 20th year of Kaiyuan of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (732 AD), Sun Wei compiled "Tang Yun" (the original book has been lost), which is an expanded version of "Qie Yun". The book has 5 volumes and 195 rhyme parts. Similar to the earlier Wang Renzhen's "Qie Yun", its upper and lower tones have one more rhyme section than Lu Fayan's "Qie Yun".
The structure of the whole book
Each rhyme part contains a number of words. Rhymes are used to compose rhyme poems. The rhyming words must come from the same rhyme part and cannot be used incorrectly. Because Pingshui Yun was a merged rhyme based on Xu Jingzong's memorial in the early Tang Dynasty, when people in the Tang Dynasty used rhyme, they actually used Pingshui Yun.
Peiwen Yunfu compiled during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty combined "Pingshui Yun" into 106 rhyme parts; 15 upper level parts, such as Yidong, Erdong, Sanjiang, Sizhi... etc. ; 15 lower tones, such as Yi Xian, Er Xiao, San Yao, Si Hao, etc.; 29 upper tones, such as Yi Dong, Er Zhuang, San Leo, Si Zhi, etc.; 30 lower tones, such as Yi Shu, Er Song Dynasty, Sanjiang, Sizhi...etc.