Word Signs What is flat and narrow in a word? What's flat? oblique?

The tones of the ancient Chinese language are divided into four tones: flat, up, down, and in. "Ping" refers to the flat tone of the four tones, including the yinping and yangping tones, and "oblique" refers to the oblique tone of the four tones, including the up, down, and in tones. According to the tradition, "Ping" means flat tone, "Shang" means ascending tone, "Dei" means descending tone, and "入声" means short tone. The Jade Keys song of Shih Vacuum of the Ming Dynasty says:

"Ping" means flat, and "Dei" means low, and "上" means high, and "上" means fierce, and "上" means high, and "上, and "去, and "去, and "去, and "入声" means short, and "入声" means short, and "急" means short, and "急" means short, and "急" means short.

Simply put, the key to distinguishing between flat and narrow is "if it's not flat, it's narrow".

Modern Chinese

In modern Chinese, the four tones are divided into yinping, yangping, shangsheng and deheng.

Anciently, the tone of ping was divided into yinping and yangping, the so-called first and second tones, in modern Chinese.

Anciently, the tones of Shangsheng became partly De-sheng and partly Shangsheng in modern Chinese. The upper tone is the third tone of the modern Chinese juxtaposition.

Anciently, the tone de-vocalized was still de-vocalized in modern Chinese, i.e. the fourth tone.

The ancient incoming tone no longer exists in modern Chinese; it has been changed to the yinping, yangping, supersonic, and declension tones.

The table of the four tones in modern Chinese is as follows:

Yinping, Yangping, Shang, Desheng

First tone, second tone, third tone, fourth tone

For example:

Ma, Ma, Ma, Cursing

(yinping) (yangping) (supersinging) (desheng)

Simply put, among the four tones of modern Chinese, the first and the second tones are flat tones; The third and fourth tones are oblique tones.