Introductory knowledge of lantern riddles

Splitting Characters

It is also known as the Character Analysis Method, or the Addition and Departure Method. It is one of the two major methods of guessing lantern riddles, along with the method of combining ideas. It makes use of the characteristics of Chinese characters that can be analyzed and disassembled to make changes to the shape of the characters, strokes, radicals, and radicals on the face of the riddle or the bottom of the riddle, or to make changes to the original shape of the characters by adding or subtracting them. These riddles are often a combination of the real and the imaginary, and require careful deliberation in order to find the answer to the riddle.

Disjunction

It is one of the most commonly used guessing techniques in lantern riddles. Chinese characters have a complex structure, and there are words within words, which can be divided or combined in many different ways. It is precisely by utilizing this characteristic of being able to decompose and recombine the characters to create new meanings that lantern riddles are made. For example, the answer to the riddle "Green Trees by the Village" (playing a word) is "Lin". Riddle selected from the Tang Dynasty Meng Haoran "over the old man Zhuang", now using the technique of other solutions to "green, tree, village" three words "side" deductions "corner of the silk side, the wood side, the wood side", for the departure; Another example is "Now we are parted and parted at the Broken Bridge" (playing a character from Dream of the Red Chamber), the answer is "Jiao Xing". The answer is "Jiao Xing". The word "Bie" is now separated into "女" and "口", which are placed in "断开的桥"("断开的桥") and "Qiao" ("乔"), which is a combination. "and "Qiao" respectively, and then reassembled to form the character "娇杏". From the characteristics of the Chinese characters, the method of making riddles by separating the characters and combining them together was developed in the Han Dynasty. This is related to the prevalence of prophecy in the Han Dynasty. Liu Fo said, "The hair of separation is made clear by Tu Prophecy." Prophecy is to make political prophecies in the form of riddles with the help of word clusters. At the end of Han Dynasty, there was a rumor: "Thousands of miles of grass, why green, ten days of divination, shall not be born!" This is a prophecy which implies that "Dong Zhuo will die." "Thousands of miles of grass will hide Dong Zhuo." Ten days of divination "hidden, Zhuo", using the word "folded" from the law.

Adding method

According to the hints given by the words with added meanings on the face or bottom of the riddle, the method of adding words or radicals, radicals, and strokes is used to get the face and bottom of the riddle to fit each other. The riddles that utilize the addition method, such as: "Make a little more contribution to China" (Typewriter 1) is based on the word "Grasshopper". This is a different interpretation of the riddle into the word "China" with the addition of the characters "一" and "," (point), which combined together gives the answer "蝈" (grasshopper). The word "gamps" is added to the word "China" and the word "one" is added. In this puzzle, the word for adding meaning is "为? contribute more". contribute". In the case of the additive method, such as "反"(打四字常言), the answer is "eat ready-made food", which is a different interpretation of the answer, if there is a word "eat" next to the word "反", then the answer is "eat". This is a different interpretation of the riddle: if there is a character "食" next to the character "反", the riddle becomes "饭". The word "food" is synonymous with the word "eat". The word for increase in meaning in this riddle is "now".

Diminishing method

According to the hints given by the words with diminishing meanings on the face or the bottom of the riddle, the relevant words or radicals or strokes are subtracted from the face or the bottom of the riddle and the faces and the bottoms of the faces and the bottoms of the riddles are then interlocked. For example, the word "bright" in the paragraph "The bright moon is in the sky", because "the moon is in the sky" ('empty') is interpreted as 'the moon is in the sky'. The word "bright" in the paragraph "The moon is in the sky" is lost because of "the moon is in the sky" ('empty' is interpreted as 'void'), leaving "sun"; the word "yang" in the latter paragraph "people are all looking up" is lost because of "the moon is in the sky" ('empty'). In the latter part of the sentence, the character "仰" in "人尽仰" is "人尽", and the character "" in "人尽" is "", leaving "卯". The two characters "日" and "卯" have been recombined to form "昂". In this riddle, the words for derogation are "空" (empty) and "尽" (exhausted), both of which have changed in character. The riddles that utilize the derogation method, such as "牛"(打政名词一), have "收件人", which is a different interpretation of the word "牛", "牛"(打政名词一). This is a different interpretation of the riddle: if the radical "人" is taken away from the word "件", the word "牛" will be left. In this puzzle, the word that indicates the meaning of derogation is "收".

Half-face method

Also known as the "half" method. It uses the technique of taking half of each Chinese character on the face of the riddle and putting them together to form a riddle, most of which have the character for "half" on the face. For example, "柴扉半掩" (柴扉半掩) is a riddle with the word "junk" (棑), which is a riddle in which the words "柴扉" (柴扉) and "戸" (柴扉) are masked off. This is a combination of the characters "柴扉" (柴扉) and "户" ("户") and "木" (木) and "非"(非), to form the character "棑". Another example is "半放红梅", which is formed by taking half of each of the three characters "放红梅". To make a half-side riddle, you should pay attention to the naturalness of the chosen side, not hard to put together. At the same time, you should pay attention to the logic, not ambiguous. For example, if you take "half-push, half-accommodate" as a riddle, it can be both "plundering" and "disturbing", which is not desirable because of the problem of one riddle with many bottoms.

Orientation method

According to the riddle text strokes pointed to the southeast, northwest, up, down, left, right, inside and outside the corners of the orientation of the relevant words, radicals, radicals or strokes for the corresponding disposition, embellished for the bottom. For example, "eloquence" (playing the organization referred to as two), the bottom of the riddle is "the Central Committee of the Party, the Central Committee of the League". This is the bottom of the riddle is interpreted as "mouth" in the "Party" in the middle of the word, "talent" in the "Mission" in the middle of the word. Another example is: "The Peacock Flies Southeast" (Typewriter 1), the answer is "存". The original phrase was the title of a famous ancient poem. The title of a famous ancient poem. Now the riddle is interpreted as follows: The eastern stroke "L" of the character "孔", and the southern stroke "佳" of the character "雀", have both "flown". The eastern stroke "L" of the character "Kong" and the southern stroke "Jia" of the character "Bird" have both "flown", leaving "子" and "小" to form "孙". This kind of riddle is characterized by its elegance and natural technique, with no trace of axe-work in the discarded and extracted parts.

Partition method

The use of Chinese characters to change the position of the strokes, without the need to add or subtract, to achieve the purpose of you have me, I have you, and the purpose of mutual parting. For example: "Easy to be bold" plays Lu Xun's "Tomorrow". The riddle is the name of the play, but now "easy" is interpreted as "exchange", implying that the strokes of the word "bold" will be re-installed as the word "tomorrow". The word "tomorrow" is implied to be re-installed as "tomorrow". Another example is: "dry a day all changed" playing the political noun "thirteen big" interpreted as "dry a day" three words of the structure of the strokes to change the word dry and the word above the word "day" and the word spelled three, leaving ten and big, and then finally re-installed into the word "tomorrow". The remaining ten and big, and then finally readjusted to "thirteen big".

Shift method

According to the modification relationship of the words in the riddle, the strokes of the Chinese characters are shifted to form the riddle. For example: "Domestic changes" is the word "main", domestic is jade, a bit of change implies that a bit of jade to mention the top into the word "main". Another example: "Endeavor to reform" playing chat "big male", the field of the word "Endeavor" will be moved to the top of the word "force", that is, the word "big male". The difference between the shifting method and the difference method is that the former only adjusts the strokes to themselves, while the latter makes sure that the strokes are different from each other.

The "mutilated" method

is the combination of the mutilated words of a riddle into a riddle. The part of the missing parts of the riddle with the meaning of the riddle, the missing strokes have more or less, or a stroke, or half, or the edge, or the corner of the remnants of the flexible use. For example: "the remnants of the flower piece into the painting" to play the word "Bi", this is the remnants of the flower of most of the word to take the two "dagger", the painting buckle "10 This is a combination of two "daggers" from the majority of the word "flower" and "ten" from the word "painting" to form the word "Bi". Another example: "body disabled heart is not disabled" to play the word "rest", which is the body of the word mutilated half, and the heart of the word combination into the word "rest". The difference between the mutilated method and the half-face method is that the former allows the character to be broken and mutilated at will, while the latter takes half or part of the natural structure of the character and combines them.

Tongyong Method

Taking a word in a riddle and interpreting it in its ancient meaning. It is also known as "Gu Tong", which is a method of interpreting a word with a different meaning, and in some cases, a different reading of the word. For example, Lu You "Bu San Zi" plum words "is already dusk alone sad" for the face to play foreign playwright "Moliere". The meaning of the word "Mo" is now standardized as "no, no", "no, do not" solution, but in ancient times and with the "twilight" pass! The word "no" is used in this context as "no, don't". The use of the method of Tongjiao will be the riddle of "Molière" other interpretation of the "twilight sad", and riddles with the coincidence. Another example is "crossing the river at dawn" as the face of the three-letter word "transparency". Since the words "度" and "渡" were used in ancient times, this riddle should be regarded as "透明渡"(解作'天色透亮时渡河') in order to match the riddle.

These are the words that are used to describe the meaning of the word 'transparent crossing'.

The profit-and-loss method

Take the strokes of the text, or this more than one stroke, and the other less than one stroke; the riddle base is skillfully adjusted, and the meaning of the riddle is logical for the proper. For example, "How much heart and blood to get a word" is the character for "quiet", with one more stroke for heart and one less for blood, which is then combined with the character for word. Another example is "心有余而不足", which is the character "忍". Heart more than a little, force less than half of the head, face for the idiom, profit and loss dexterity, buckle together into a complete. The difference between profit and loss and shift method is that: the former is mainly to the strokes of the loss of profit and loss, sometimes not necessarily the same stroke; the latter most of the radicals, structural shift, limited to the same stroke.

Huiyi method

Also known as the word meaning analysis method, it is one of the two major methods of riddle guessing, as is the word splitting method. It is from the riddle on the text (including words, words or sentences) may have the meaning to comprehend, association, deduce, explore the riddle, so that the riddle riddle through the other interpretation according to a particular meaning match. The meaning of the riddle can be the "original meaning" which is usually obvious, or it can be the "hidden meaning" which is not easy to realize and needs to be interpreted differently. However, for the riddle as a whole, the meaning should no longer be the "original meaning" in the linguistic context, but the "hidden meaning" which has been interpreted. When guessing a riddle by the axiomatic method, it is important not to use the original meaning of the riddle to interpret the riddle. That is to say, when using the method, we must be careful not to make the mistake of "straight solving the riddle".

Multiple riddles

The phenomenon of the same riddle and riddle, but with multiple different riddles is called a riddle with multiple riddles. For example, the riddle "Xinghui Wuqian" (Typewriter 1) has the word "Gong" as its base if it is guessed by the subtraction method. This is a different interpretation of the riddle into "Xinghui" two words without (no) front part, the remaining "eight" and "Taiwan" synthesized into the word "Gong". The remaining characters are "八" and "台" to form the character "公". However, if the orientation method is used, the answer to the riddle is "佥". This is a different interpretation of the riddle: if the front parts of the three characters "興會無" (i.e. , 八, 一) are combined, the word "佥" is formed. Another example is this riddle: "人丁"(打成语二). If the derogation method is used to guess the riddle, the answer is "大打出手，一笔勾销". The word "打" is interpreted as "丁", and the word "大" is interpreted as "一", and the word "人" is interpreted as "人", and the word "man" is interpreted as "人". "Together, they are the riddle "人丁". However, if the additive method is used to guess the riddle, the answer will be "As a mouthful, there is a lot of potential". Solution: If the word "一口" appears on the riddle "人丁", "一" and "人" are combined to form "大", and "大". "big", "mouth" and "d" become "can", i.e., "man ding" becomes "ding". The word "mouth" and "ding" become "kuo", i.e., "人丁" becomes "dakuo", which is linked to the riddle. Due to the many different ways of guessing the riddles, and also due to the wide range of riddles, it is not surprising to see the phenomenon of a riddle with many bottoms. The key lies in the correct treatment of this problem. On the one hand, when making riddles should be repeatedly scrutinized. Multi-party review, as far as possible to avoid a riddle more than the bottom; on the other hand, if other people guess the bottom of the same buckle fit aptly, reasonable, then it should be counted as guessing, because this is in line with the objective situation of guessing riddles, so that people are convinced by the mouth.

Old riddles new guess

Here "old riddles new guess" refers to the folk riddles for the face, to guess the bottom of the shooting lamp guessing a new 颕 chic lamp riddles guessing shooting method. It is the product of the horizontal connection between folk riddles and riddles, and it is the synthesis formed by the organic combination of two different guessing methods of folk riddles and lampshade riddles. The old riddle new guess is a bit similar to the lampshade riddle heavy door frame, it is the first root frame folk riddle riddle revealed the original riddle, and then take this riddle as the intermediary riddle meaning, using lamps quietly other methods to guess the riddle in line with the requirements of the riddle. For example: "A grain of grain, scattered all over the house" (playing the photography noun one), this folk riddle original answer is to play a thing "electric lamp". Nowadays, according to the meaning of an electric lamp lighting up the whole room, the riddle can be further revealed as "indoor light", which is also interpreted as "the room is full of electric light", thus reflecting the meaning of the riddle. Another example is: "Thousands of threads, ten thousand threads, fall into the river weight and disappear" (playing the name of a city in China), the original answer to this old riddle is to play a natural phenomenon "rain". Nowadays, we can further use the technique of "rain" to think about the intermediary riddle, and it will not be difficult to reveal the bottom of the riddle, "Tianshui", and the bottom of the riddle will be interpreted as "water falling from the sky". Thus, it matches the meaning of the riddle. Another example: "A narrow house with five guests inside" (playing three words), this old riddle was originally based on the human action of "putting on shoes". Nowadays, from the riddle "five toes are put into a narrow shoe" such a mood, the use of alternative solutions to reveal the riddle "wearing small shoes". There is also this old riddle: "The chessboard is big, the pieces are numerous, and they can be seen but not modeled" (playing the international noun one), the original riddle is to play the natural world thing "star". Now from "the sky is like a chessboard, the stars are like chess pieces" this context, the use of other interpretation techniques for association, can be followed like a molded melon will be the bottom of the riddle "the highest authority" to reveal the bottom of the riddle, the bottom of the riddle other interpretations of the "high sky when like a chess game It should be noted that the above mentioned "highest authority" is not the same as "the sky is like a chess game". It should be noted that there is a fundamental difference between the above "old riddles and new riddles" and the past type of "old riddles and new riddles". In the past, the so-called "old riddles and new guesses" used the same kind of folk riddles, i.e., mainly based on the characteristics of the things concerned, nature, use, etc. to realize the answer to the riddles, but only to change another angle to guessing; another riddle just. But they also belong to the category of folk riddles. This book introduces the "old riddles and new guesses", although also borrowed folk riddles as riddles, but it is the use of lamp riddles to explain the techniques, from the perspective of the interpretation of the meaning of the text to go to a deeper level of guessing; in addition, it is also a strict rule that riddles and riddles can not be the same words, or it is the "offending surface Otherwise, it is a "violation of the face" and cannot be established. So it should belong to the category of lantern riddles. The above form of "old riddles and new guesses" was first created in recent years by lantern riddle enthusiasts in Nanning, Guangxi. As the riddle borrowed from the women and children know the folk riddles, guessing shot but the use of lantern riddles to explain the technique, thus more interesting, unique flavor. Practice has proved that this is a kind of elegant and popular **** appreciation of the new form of riddles, riddles is an innovation and reform on the creation of lantern riddles, welcomed by the masses.

Word double riddle

"Word double" was originally a song, many ancient and modern riddlers use it as a riddle or riddle, thus forming a form of lampshade riddles. If you use the word "double" as the face of the riddle, the riddle requires that the strokes of each character are composed of an even number of strokes. For example, the riddle is "Togo", which is the name of a country. Another example is: "字字双(打已故作字一)", the answer is "舒舍予", i.e. "Lao She" (老舍). The word "Duo" contains two "夕" and two "可", and "舒舍予" consists of two "舍" and two "", and "Shu Sheyu" consists of two "舍" and two "". "Shu She Yu" consists of two "舍" and two "予". If you use a "word double" puzzle as a base, you need the puzzle to be written and be able to split it into an even number of words. For example, the riddle of "Woman or Horse" (女子也好驰馬) is "字字雙". The riddle has two characters "女", two characters "子", two characters "也", and two characters "马", all of which are even numbers. All of them are even numbers. Another example is: Seeking and searching for cold and quiet, miserable and sad (playing the word brand one), the riddle is "character double". The riddle is about the famous poet Li Qingzhao of the Song Dynasty, and the whole sentence is made up of double characters. Although the word double riddle has a long history, it is obvious that the riddle flavor is not strong enough and the clasp is more general.

With the tiger for the skin

The lantern riddle industry calls the creation of lantern riddles "with the tiger for the skin", that is, in accordance with the selected riddles and riddles, the preparation of riddles. Because the lamp recitation is also known as "lamp tiger", "Wenhu", tube called "tiger", the riddle is naturally "tiger skin".

Proposed face for the bottom

The opposite of the bottom of the face, "with the tiger for the skin", to face for the bottom of the riddle is to list only the riddle, asking the candidate to choose their own riddle stone and riddle bottom. The riddles are usually poems and famous lines or some specialized terms and words with certain meanings. The selected riddles should be appropriate, and the scope and size of the riddles should be in accordance with the riddles; the selected riddles should be relevant to the original face, without any trace of axe or far-fetched drawbacks.

Disassembling a riddle

These riddles are solved by disassembling the riddles, one by one, and corresponding to the face of the riddle. This type of riddle is much more difficult to guess than the "split face to bottom" method. The reason is that it is easier to guess when the riddle is in the face of the riddle, but when it is in the bottom of the riddle, it is often necessary to think about it in many ways, and to explore it repeatedly in order to get a bull's-eye view. For example, the answer to the riddle "Gui" (a line from Ouyang Xiu's poem) is "After dusk". Here is a different interpretation of the riddle: if you take the "man" in the word "炅"("炅"),the remaining "日 "and "八 "are "日 "and "八", respectively. If the "man" of the character "炅" is separated, the remaining "日" and "八" are the last parts of the characters "黃" and "昏" respectively. Another example is "Da Yu" (a four-character common saying), the answer to which is "truly unprecedented". Da Yu is a legendary water-control hero, and the solution to this riddle is that if the words "实" and "属" are blanked out at the beginning, the word "Da Yu" will remain.

The bottom side of the face of the same

Lantern riddles is not only an interesting word game, has its knowledge, fun, art, but also has a certain role in publicity and education, has its ideology. Therefore, in pay attention to the skills and fun at the same time, but also consider the positive and negative relationship between the bottom side and its social propaganda effect, it should be given a healthy, upward, positive ideological content. If the bottom side of the meaning of the contradiction, the content of the paradox, praise and blame is out of tune with the political and ideological common sense and common sense contrary to the bottom side of the grammatical. Such as "thousands of miles of marriage" as the face of the legal term "bigamy", the riddle is positive, but the bottom of the riddle is deducted out of the "bigamy" crime. Another example is to "export products" to play the three-word colloquialism "not in use", the riddle is not interpreted as "not used in China", but the face and bottom of a link, it seems to say that the Chinese The "export products" are "not useful" things, then it's not good enough? More attention should be paid to the praise and criticism of the characters. For example, some people have used "more than ten rats" as a face to hit the Japanese movie star "Tanaka Yuzi". Originally, "ten" buckle "Tanaka", "more" buckle "Yu", "rats" buckle "Yu". Mouse", "Zi", in terms of skills, it is also ironic. But Tanaka Yuzi is an international friend familiar to the majority of our movie and television audience, her name and rats mentioned, it is rude, is disrespectful to friends. In fact, this riddle can use the method of meeting the meaning of the riddle, will be made into a "countryside millionaire", then it is obviously much stronger than the previous riddle. Tanaka Yuuko from the "mouse" jumped into the waist of a millionaire "rich", I believe she will also be happy. In conclusion, it is important to distinguish between riddles that are not derogatory to positive characters and those that are not positive to negative characters. Lantern riddles that may cause adverse publicity effects on society, no matter how skillful they are, should be firmly discarded as if they were worn out. With the progress of the times, the riddles should pay more attention to the unity of ideology and artistry, so as to make the riddles really have social value and a broad future.

Alternative solutions at the bottom of the riddle

Alternative solutions at the bottom of the riddle is a traditional and authentic method of riddle making, and is still the most commonly used method of alternative solutions. Its main characteristic is that the riddle surface text meaning to take the original meaning of the solution, but the bottom of the riddle text to take the ambiguity of the solution. For example: "Wound healing" (playing the economic term one), the riddle is "income generation". The original meaning of "generate income" is "create wealth, increase income". Nowadays, however, the word "创" in the riddle is interpreted as "创伤" and "收" is interpreted as "收缩". "Wound healing" means that the wound has closed and grown back.

Riddle face other solution

It is one of the lantern riddle other solution techniques, refers to the bottom of the riddle text to take the original meaning of the solution, but the riddle face text to take the ambiguity of the solution. For example: "The hunter fights the jackal" (playing a domestic movie), the riddle is "Star Star". The riddle seems to be about the situation of hunters hunting, but this is only the author in the riddle of the riddle in the disguise of doubt. This riddle is in fact the use of riddles, in the riddle list the names of the three constellations: "Orion" and "Jackal" is the modern astronomy of the constellation name, and "Doo" is one of the twenty-eight constellations of China's ancient times. The "Doo" is one of the twenty-eight constellations in ancient China. Therefore, when guessing the riddle, you should first solve the riddle separately, and then use the induction method to arrive at the bottom of the riddle, "Star Star". Another example is "single dawn" (playing five-character proverb), the riddle is "unfamiliar with life and place". The riddle is the name of a contemporary Chinese calligrapher, but now it is interpreted as "single (only) know the sky". Since "heaven, earth, and man" were called the "three talents" in ancient times, and since Life knows about heaven, it can be inferred that he is unfamiliar with both earth and man. The riddle can be read as "life, the ground is not familiar" to fit the riddle.

The riddle is too general

In the process of making riddles, there are quite a lot of cases in which a riddle has more than one side, but they must be taken from different materials and portrayed differently. The same deduction of the face of the sentence, can not just change the vocabulary; on the other hand, the same material, such as both the use of this sentence, but also the use of that sentence, the content of the riddle how to change, are the same deduction of the riddle. This kind of situation is called "riddle too general". Guessing this kind of riddle is too general can only make people feel like drinking plain water, bland and tasteless. For example, "Dong Cunrui, Liu Hulan" (playing the name of a domestic movie), the riddle is "Heroic Children". This riddle riddle any choice of a man or woman heroes, such as Huang Jiguang, Qiu Shaoyun, Zhao Yiman, Jiang Zhuyun and so on can be buckled, that of course, no riddle flavor to speak of. Another example is "the difficulty of the road to Shu is more difficult than the sky" (playing the Water Margin Park people one), the riddle is "Li Yun". Don't interpreted as "Li Bai Yun". But Li Bai said a lot of famous words, just take what he said can be deducted "Li Yun", of course, boring.

The riddles are not complete in terms of individual words or phrases, and the term "throw away" is used to refer to the words that are not in the riddle. This is a common occurrence in riddles that borrow sentences. All the key words in a sentence, "throw away" is not allowed, because a "throw away", will induce the guesser to idle words to think, the face of the bottom of the buckle is not rigorous. For example: "light sweeping moth eyebrow toward the supreme" (playing chemicals a), the riddle is "light powder". Face sentence from the Tang Zhang Hu "set Lingtai" poem, said the State of Guo lady without powder to go to the king, face sentence elegant, with "light sweeping moth eyebrow" deduction "light powder" for the interpretation of contempt for the application of powder, quite see the God. It is a pity that the three characters of "Chao Zhi Zun" are not available and have been thrown away. Another example: "water birds call each other" (playing a physical noun), the riddle is "*** song". Face sentence from Du Fu "tired of night": "dark under the firefly from the light, water lodging birds call each other". The meaning is that the birds that sleep at night by the stream keep calling each other. "The birds call to each other" can be deducted from "**** chirping", but the word "water lodging" has no place, and is left out.

The riddle is empty

The term "empty" means that the individual words on the riddle are not reflected in the riddle, making the riddle redundant. For example: "Shan" (a line from a poem by Mao Zedong), the answer is "A mountain flies against the side of a big river". The word "riverside" is "water", which combines with "a mountain flying against" to form "shan", but the word "big" is not the same as the word "water". However, the word "big" has no place, and it is empty. Another example is "谢客" (a line from a poem by Chen Zi'ang), the answer is "后不见来者". The word "thank you" means that you do not want to see the visitors, which can be linked to the riddle's "not see the visitors", but the word "after" has no place and is empty. If the riddle is changed to "Mrs. Wang thanks the guest", "Mrs. Wang" is interpreted as "the king's wife", that is, "after". This will make the bottom of the face fit snugly, impeccable.

Wrong use of words

Lantern riddles mainly utilize various variations of Chinese characters, especially the use of a word with multiple meanings to make the bottom face fit, so the riddle maker must use Chinese characters correctly, and can't afford to make any mistakes. Because if a riddle uses the wrong word, it will make people have no way to guess; at the same time, due to the lack of logical connection between the bottom side, it does not make sense, and thus can not be linked. For example: "Autumn water *** long sky a color" (playing the name of a country), the bottom of the riddle is "Poland". This puzzle, despite the choice of the Tang Dynasty Wang Bo "Tengwangge Preface" in the famous lines for the face, quite poetic, but the face of the bottom can not be deducted, the reason is that the author of the orchid "orchid" as the wrong blue "blue" to make the puzzle. Another example is: "Coughing up saliva to make a pearl" (Typewriter 1), the answer is "who". The face of the sentence is idiomatic, meaning that spitting words into pearls and jewels, a metaphor for the speech of the smart and sophisticated. But the author of the riddle "Troi" mistakenly as "good", and thus mistakenly deducted for "speech good". In fact, "Troi" pronounced zhui, is a short-tailed bird, and the meaning of "good" is very different. This kind of error is often caused by the carelessness of the author, Taiwan to be in the making of the puzzle carefully check, it can be avoided.

Riddle updating

This refers to the same riddles and riddles, with different ways of solving different riddles to seek different riddles, in order to achieve different riddles effect. It is important to note that we should not follow the same pattern and mechanically update the riddle according to the meaning of the original riddle, but should use a variety of flexible and varied techniques to achieve a refreshingly different mood.

Mixed riddles

The riddle refers to a lampshade riddle contains two or more different kinds of riddles, due to the riddles are messy, often give a person a kind of non-donkey non-horse, incongruous and unorthodox feeling, which makes guessing the fun of the shot is greatly weakened. For example: "success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He" (playing blasting equipment, postal term a), the riddle is "fuse, dead letter". According to Song. Hong Mai "Rongzhai renewed pen": "Han Xin for people against the Queen Lu want to call, afraid of its not on, but with Xiao Xiangguo seek, give letter into the congratulations, that is, was executed. Xin is a great general, recommended by Xiao He; now his death, but also out of his plan. The riddle is a famous idiom, meaning that the reason why Han Xin can command the three armies is due to Xiao He's introduction; therefore, "success is also Xiao He" can be deducted from "introduction of the letter", and "defeat is also Xiao He" can be deducted from "defeat". Therefore, "Xiao He" can be linked to the word "citation", and "Xiao He" can be linked to the word "death letter". This riddle is natural and appropriate, but it is a pity that the two riddles are not related to each other, which always makes people feel that the guessing is not smooth enough. Therefore, the riddle maker should try to eliminate this kind of riddle mixed phenomenon, and create a harmonious and comfortable mood for the guesser.

Using allusions to misrepresentation

When using allusions to make riddles, the use of allusions must be realistic. The reason is that there must be a source for allusion, even if it is a convention, it must be a "cause". If the author only seeks the bottom to be able to buckle, without regard to the fact that allusion to the fabricated, this phenomenon is called "the use of allusion to misrepresentation". For example, "Ah Dou is smart" (playing a religious term), the bottom of the riddle is "Zen machine". Adou is the three kingdoms of shu han lord liu chan's nickname, "adou" buckle "chan", "smart" buckle "machine", "adou" buckle "machine", "adou" buckle "zen". From the riddle button skills said also can still; but the history of the Ah Dou is a cowardly and incompetent emperor known, so "Ah Dou" has become a synonym for mediocre and incompetent people, what he is smart to say? Therefore, the inaccuracy of this puzzle is obvious. Another example is: "Chen Shuxu is out of the literary collection" (playing a sentence of five-character Tang words), the riddle is Tang. In Yang Jiong's "Marching from the Army", "Shengzuo is a scholar". Chen Shuxi was Chen Sheng, the leader of the peasant revolt at the end of the Qin Dynasty. The answer to the riddle is "Chen Sheng wrote a book". At first glance, this riddle has a different solution, the face and bottom of the buckle is also appropriate, but unfortunately committed the problem of misrepresentation of the dictionary. Because of the rummage through any canonical books, only know Chen Sheng is a hired laborer origin, is the peasant heroes rise up, but never mentioned what he wrote an anthology. Therefore, the face of this riddle can only be said to be the author of the riddle for the deduction of the bottom of the riddle and make a false statement only. This shows that the use of allusions to make riddles can certainly increase the interest of the riddle, but must be accurate and informative, based on the evidence, if the bull's head does not match the horse's mouth, can only make a fool of themselves, passed on as a joke.

Grids to help riddles live

This refers to the production process of lantern riddles, the riddle maker through the setting of the "grid", a former puzzle could not be included in the puzzle material to become a riddle material, so as to play a role in the resurrection of the dead. To the riddle maker, set "frame" can be some difficult to make riddle words and phrases for appropriate adjustment and transformation, in order to conceive more appropriate riddle, which greatly expanded the scope of the riddle material, to give the riddle maker a broader range of ideas and more varied means to enhance the riddle interest and change. For the guesser, as long as you are familiar with the rules of the riddle, guessing and shooting will not increase the difficulty, but to know the grid through the changes, easy to explore the riddle in the established scope of the chest to the bottom.

Adding a note to a riddle

This refers to the addition of a sentence after the text of the riddle, implying that the riddle or the answer requires the addition of a certain word, a certain radical, or the elimination of a certain word or a certain radical in order to fit. These additions are not only expressions of self-effacement or self-promotion, but also other encouraging or amusing words. On the surface, these additional words seem to be incidental and unimportant, but in fact they are the author's tricks. Therefore, in addition to the riddle, the guesser must also take these additional words into account as an important factor, so as not to swan. For example, "two" (playing chat item two), the riddle note "this riddle out of the ugly", the riddle is "Wang ten, cattle fly". Here, the phrase "this riddle is ugly" appears to be modest, but in fact it implies that the word "ugly", i.e. "ox", should appear in the riddle. This is according to the earth's domination of the Chinese zodiac, ugly and ox match, to "Wang X Fei" to deduct the riddle also such as "do not abolish the long river flow for all time" (playing China's Go player one), the riddle note "this riddle guessing to get the cash! The answer is "Jiang Zhuyi" (江铸). The answer to this riddle is "Jiang Zhujiu". The riddle "The river will not be abolished for ten thousand years" coincides with the phrase "Jiang Shoujiu". In order to change the character "寿" into "铸", the character "金" must be inserted next to the character "寿". This is "this puzzle guessed cash" the true face of the Lushan. Another example is "the rising sun at the window, easy to order the pen" (playing a legal term), the riddle note "no one can guess the bottom of the riddle". The answer to the riddle is "but the book". The riddle plus the note seems to be the author of the word from the micro, in fact, is to imply that the riddle aside from the "people" word side not to guess, will "but the book" as "Dan book" to guess can be with the riddle buckle.

One-word antithesis method

The riddle is a word, the bottom of the riddle is also a word, but the bottom of the riddle of a single word can be split to the opposite meaning to accentuate the riddle. For example, the word "wu" plays the word "fei" (non-text): "male" plays the word "ugly woman" (mo female), "ghost" plays "ugly woman" (mo female), "ghost" plays "ugly woman" (mo female). "打 "俳"(非人)，"黑 "打 "converted"(反白) "Le"(Le) "hit" praise "(Hugh mourning) and so on.

The riddle seems to be borrowing allusions, but in fact, it is a riddle, hiding from the sea, using its text and avoiding its meaning, through the riddle surface for other interpretations, so as to launch the bottom of the riddle. For example, "Xiaojun" is a three-character colloquialism for "Little Emperor". The allusion to the "Fine Gentleman" is: Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty gave meat to his ministers, and Dongfang Shuo cut a piece of meat before him and wanted to take it home. When Emperor Wu asked him why, he said he wanted to take it home to his wife, Xiaojun (细君). The name "Xiujun" was the name of Dongfang Shuo's wife, and later people used "Xiujun" to refer to wives in general. This time, the original text is put aside, and the word "xiaojun" is interpreted as "xiaojun" (small ruler), which means "xiao" (small) and "jun" (small). "The answer to the riddle is "little emperor", and the answer to the riddle is "Moshuyuu" (a four-letter word). The answer to the riddle is "Don't mess around". The allusion to the riddle is: In order to surrender to the Jin Dynasty, Qin Hui, a treacherous minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, falsely accused Yue Fei, a patriotic general who fought against the Jin Dynasty, and arrested him and sent him to prison. General Han Shizhong asked Qin Hui: What was Yue Fei's crime? Qin Hui said: Yue Fei's crime is "unwarranted". It means "may have". Han said: "'Moshuyu' three words how to serve the world!" Later, it was used to refer to the fabrication of false accusations. This riddle is not based on the original dictionary's positive connotation, but interprets "莫须有" as "不要有须 (beard)" to fit the riddle "不要胡来". Thus, it can achieve the effect of having a canonization without a canonization.

Positive word reverse side method

"With a single word written as the face of the riddle, the guessing shot in the bottom of the riddle for the font form of the reverse side of the change, in order to make the face of the bottom of the mutual deduction. For example, "目" hits the word "置", which is interpreted as "四字直起来放便成为 "目"; and "爿" hits the word "版". "The word "valves" is interpreted as the reversal of the word "piece" to become the word "valves". Another example is "半 "打成语 "本末倒置"，解作 "半 "是 "末 "字倒转过来放置而成的

The question is: "What are you doing here?

This method is usually used in the context of the riddles. In addition to the meaning of the riddle, there should be some extra content to be attached to the riddle. For example, the date, place

Unfinished

This method is usually applied to the riddles that have been used in the past.