Abstract: One of the most important methods used in Chinese phonology studies is to study rhymes employed in verses inherited from generations.Scholars in the Tang Dynasty first introduced such studies but their studies were not systematic enough.Many valuable ideas were presented in phonology studies in the Song Dynasty，but they lack significance in the methodology sense.Studies in the Yuan Dynasty were at the beginning stage of application of inductive method and provide reference for later researches in both research procedures and results.With openmindedness，scholars in the Ming Dynasty did a systematic phonology research on the verses by using an almost inductive method.Text research in the Qing Dynasty，with specific purposes and mature methods，was based on reliable text materials and thus is of reference at present.

Key words: verse materials, Chinese phonology, studies on rhyming, Zhongyuan Yinyun, Gu Yan wu