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Lantern riddles (riddles written on lanterns) are also known as Wenhu. Guessing riddles, also known as playing tiger. The riddles are also known as "playing the tiger". The riddles are also known as "playing the tiger". Shot. Now, people are accustomed to use "riddles written on lanterns" as a name.

Lantern riddles are the crystallization of the wisdom of our working people, is a comprehensive art of our national tradition. As early as in the Xia Dynasty, there was a kind of ballad with hints to describe certain things. During the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods, this kind of ballad developed and evolved into "Thin Words" (also known as "Hidden Words"). At that time, due to the division of powers, many tourists in the admonition, often used "hidden words" to say what they had seen, so that the king was inspired by it. <<Guoyu. Jin language>> recorded: "there are Qin guest thin speech in the court, the doctor can not be right also." Can be seen at that time these "thin words" and "cryptic", is the prototype of China's riddles. Until the southern Song Dynasty writer Baozhao made "well". Turtle". earth" three riddles, and to <<riddles three >> included in his collection of poems, there is "riddle" a word called.

The first riddles were popularized in oral guessing, and in the Three Kingdoms period, some people wrote riddles on paper and posted them for people to guess. In the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to show their talent, some literati used to stick the riddles on the lanterns to attract the passers-by on the Lantern Lantern Lantern Nights, thus the name "Lantern Riddle" came into being.

The riddles were called "hidden words" and "concealed speech" in ancient times. Today, it usually refers to folk riddles. China's famous classical literary theorist Liu Si in the "Wenxin Diao Long - Harmony Hidden", said: "since the Wei Dynasty, rather than haiku, and the gentleman's mockery of hidden, turned into riddles. Riddle is also, back and forth its words, so that coma also. Or the body of the text, or images of objects, delicate to think, shallow to show rhetoric. The meaning of riddles is to be polite but correct, and the words are to be hidden but obvious." He made a high theoretical generalization of riddles, and made a profound analysis and eloquent exposition of the history of the development of riddles, the definition of riddles and their characteristics.

Folk riddles are different from lamp riddles, which are literary riddles, while folk riddles, except for a small number of word riddles, are all implied by the characteristics of things, and therefore, it belongs to thing riddles. It mainly focuses on the form, performance, action and other characteristics of things, using anthropomorphism, hyperbole, metaphors and other techniques to depict the riddle, so as to achieve the purpose of insinuation.

The scope of its riddles is relatively narrow, in addition to a small number of word puzzles, most of them are things and objects, such as animals, plants, objects, human organs, natural phenomena, human behavior and so on.

Its riddles are often ballads in the form of mountain songs, with more in the form of four lines, rhyming and rhythmic, which can be read in a catchy and vivid image, making it easy to recite orally.

Because folk riddles are easy to understand, most of them are suitable for children and teenagers to guess. Therefore, sometimes also called folk riddles children's riddles. Since ancient times, riddles because of its riddle body is different, so the bridge generation of the syncopated name has also changed.

The riddles were called "Yinyin", "Hidden Words" and "Concealed Rhetoric" during the Spring and Autumn Period, and "Shot Repeat" and "Clutch" during the Han Period. In the Han Dynasty, it was called "Shot Repeat", "Clutch" and "Character Riddle"; in the Tang Dynasty, it was called "Antithesis" and "Post Hiatus"; in the Five Dynasties, it was called "Riddle" and "Riddle". In the Tang Dynasty, it was called "antithesis" and "hiatus"; in the Fifth Dynasty, it was called "overshooting"; in the Song Dynasty, it was called "ground riddle", "poem riddle", "hostile riddle", and "social riddle". In the Song Dynasty, it was called "geomancy", "poetic riddle", "hostile riddle", "social riddle", "hidden head" and "market language"; in the Yuan Dynasty, it was called "one-legged tiger", "riddle" and "riddle". In the Yuan Dynasty, it was called "One-Legged Tiger" and "Riddle Rhyme"; in the Ming Dynasty, it was called "Anti-cuts", "Commercial Riddles", "Guessing Lanterns", and "Bouncing Lanterns". ", "wall-bouncing", "wall-bouncing lantern", "lantern riddle", "spring lantern riddle "; in the Qing Dynasty, it was called "riddle-zi", "riddle-zi", "cut-out", "reduced-foot rhyme", "wen-zhi", "wen-zhi", "wen-zhi", "wen-zhi", and "wen-zhi". ", "Wenhu", "Lantern Tiger", "Spring Riddle", "Lantern Riddle" and so on. .

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