Souyun: Online Platform for Chinese Historical Phonology Research 100

Souyun.com was founded on February 12, 2009, combining a classical poetry and literature resource platform with poetry-related tools. Its founder, Mr. Chen Yiyun, is both a passionate poetry enthusiast and a software designer. Noting that although there are many poetry websites, their technology is generally weak and they fail to leverage software strengths to deliver better poetry services, he conceived the idea of creating Souyun.com.

Main Features of Souyun.com:

• Poetry Search: Souyun.com has collected approximately 780,000 poems from the pre-Qin era to modern times. Users can query poems precisely by author, dynasty, genre, rhyme category, keyword, and keyword position, or perform fuzzy searches similar to Baidu or Google.

• Vast Poetry Resources: Contains classic poetry works from ancient times to the present, supporting retrieval by author, dynasty, genre, and various other methods.

• Poetry Verification Tools: Souyun.com provides regulated verse (lüshi) checking, ci-pattern verification, and other features to help users check whether the meter and tonal/structural parallelism of their poems meet requirements. These tools can not only point out errors but also provide modification suggestions. Although these suggestions may not always be perfect, they still serve as valuable references.

• Intelligent Prosody Analysis: Provides poetry prosody analysis tools to help users check whether the level-deflected tones (pingze), rhyming, and other elements of their poetry works comply with established norms.

• Creative Assistance Tools: Built-in with a variety of poetry creation templates and inspirational features to help users quickly generate high-quality poetry works.

• Poetry Appreciation and Sharing: Offers beautifully designed poetry display pages and supports users in sharing their works to social media to share the beauty of poetry with more people.

• Traditional-Simplified Character Conversion: Batch conversion between traditional and simplified Chinese characters, automatically identifying cases where a single character has multiple conversion results and marking them for manual selection.
  

• Poetry Community Exchange: Establishes a community of poetry enthusiasts where users can exchange creative experiences, share poetry works, and collectively improve their poetry creation skills.

Features of Souyun.com:

• Professional and Authoritative: Souyun.com collaborates with multiple poetry research institutions to ensure its poetry collection is authoritative and accurate.

• Comprehensive Functions: Integrates poetry retrieval, prosody analysis, creative assistance, and appreciation/sharing to meet diverse user needs.

• Strong Interactivity: Builds a poetry community that promotes exchange and cooperation among users, jointly advancing the inheritance and development of poetry culture.

Souyun.com leverages computer technology to deeply mine and integrate relevant humanities data, develops numerous poetry tools, and disseminates poetry and literary resources through web technology. After years of effort, Souyun.com has grown into a well-established platform with comprehensive functionality. With professional expertise in poetry and strong computer technology, Souyun.com stands at the forefront of the digital humanities field and enjoys broad influence in the global poetry community.

Souyun.com also provides rich learning resources, including free poetry creation courses and open classes that help users learn poetry writing from scratch. The course content covers fundamentals such as level-deflected tones (pingze), rhyming, and tonal/structural parallelism, suitable for both beginners and users with some foundational knowledge. In addition, the site offers one-on-one tutoring services to provide users with personalized guidance in poetry creation.

The website's rhyme dictionary feature integrates a variety of classical poetry resources, such as the Hanyu Da Cidian (Comprehensive Chinese Dictionary) and the Kangxi Dictionary, providing users with detailed references for rhyming, word selection, and sentence construction. The combination of these tools and resources makes Souyun.com one of the best platforms for poetry creation and learning.

Souyun.com has collected approximately 900,000 ancient and modern poetry works, of which about 830,000 are from the modern era and earlier. Users can not only accurately search the poetry database anytime and anywhere, but also systematically refer to poetry critiques, rhyme dictionaries, and encyclopedic compilations from successive dynasties, in order to build a poetry knowledge graph.