科举与音韵——明代音韵学繁荣的原因

在中国历史上延续四百多年的八股文，对当时的政治、思想、学术、文化、社会风习及思维方式等各个方面都产生过深远的影响，作为中国传统学问之一的音韵学也不例外。通过对明代科举内容的考察，并与宋代科举相对照，认为八股举业并未限制明人的诗赋创作，八股文讲究骈偶对仗的声律要求，客观上对明代音韵学的发展和传播起到了促进作用。

The imperial examinations and phonology:The reasons for the flourishing of Chinese phonology in Ming Dynasty

The eight-part essay,which lasted for more than four hundred years in Chinese history,had an extraneous influence on such aspects as politics,ideology,learning,culture,society fundamental habit and mode of thinking at that time.Phonology,as one of Chinese traditional systematic learning,is no exception.By studying the imperial examinations of Ming Dynasty and contrasting it to that of Song Dynasty,the article thinks that the stereotyped eight-part essay had no restrictions on people's poetry and rhapsody cr...