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rejecting the then prevailing practice of xiéyin (??) (i.e. changing the usual reading of a character in a Shi Jing poem in order to suit the rhyme). Encouraged by his senior, Jiao Hong (??) (1540-1620), he wrote Máoshi Guyin Kao (?????) and Qusòng Guyinyì (?????), in which he shows the ancient pronunciations (by homophones) of 650 characters. The results are based on painstaking analysis of the rhyming schemes in Shi Jing and other ancient

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