Lu Deming (; 556(?)–630) was Tang dynasty Chinese scholar, author of the
Jingdian Shiwen, which provides annotations on the classics, including alternate pronunciations of characters in specific contexts. In addition to authoring this work, Lu Deming opposed the ''xié yùn'' method of reading the Odes propounded by
Shen Zhong
沈重 Shěn Zhòng is a sixth-century Chinese philologist. In his commentary of the ''Book of Songs'' he was the first scholar to note that the poems did not rhyme in contemporary pronunciation. He suggested pronouncing words differently in orde ...
. This method adjusted the pronunciation of characters to make them rhyme in contemporary speech. Lu Deming instead explained that rhyming practices were looser in earlier periods.
[Baxter, William. 1992. ''Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology''. Berlin: Mouton. p. 152]
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555 births
627 deaths
Tang dynasty writers