Lantern riddles about Lantern Festival

1. The riddle: "Outside the garden, I can hear the apes calling, and on the small bridge, I can hear the sound of the moon and the stars" (小桥星月听萧声). (Riddle: Lantern Festival)

Analysis: The periphery of the word "garden" is hidden, leaving "yuan"; "apes calling" suggests the pronunciation of "yuan". The pronunciation of "yuan" is prompted by the word "ape". The symbol for "star" is "丶", and the symbol for "bridge" is "冖", which means "丶冖". "The combination of "丶冖" and "月小" makes the character "宵". The combination of "冖" and "月小" makes the character "宵".

2, riddle: sugar plums really strange, also no core and no skin, the first month of the fifteenth along the streets to sell, after the first month no one mentioned. (Riddle: Lantern).

3. Riddle: A night of fish and dragons dancing; playing a folk custom word. (Riddle: Lantern Festival).

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Lantern riddles are also known as Wenhu, guessing lantern riddles, also known as playing the tiger, playing wall lamps, commercial lamps, shooting, solution, demolition, etc., but people are accustomed to using the "lantern riddles," a name. Lantern riddle is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient Chinese working people, is a comprehensive art of Chinese traditional culture.

Early in the Xia Dynasty, there was a kind of ballad that described something with hints. During the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods, this kind of ballad developed and evolved into "thin speech" (also called "cryptic language"). At that time, due to the disputes among the states, many tourists often used the "hidden words" to express their opinions when giving advice, so that the king would be inspired by them. The state language - Jin language" recorded: "there are Qin guests thin speech in the court, the doctor can not be right." It can be seen that at that time these "thin words" and "cryptic language", is the prototype of China's lantern riddles. Until the southern Song Dynasty literary scholar Bao Zhao made "well", "turtle", "earth" three riddles, and "three riddles" included in his collection of poems, then there was a The name "riddle" came into being after he included the three riddles in his collection of poems with the title "Three Riddles of Characters".

Lantern riddles are riddles written on top of colorful lamps, riddles originated from Chinese folk oral riddles, and later became riddles through the processing of the literati, which has a long history in China. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, "cryptic words" or "thin words" appeared. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, it became a written creation. During the Three Kingdoms period, riddles were popular. In the Song Dynasty, lantern riddles appeared. People tied the riddles to colorful lanterns for people to guess and shoot. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, riddles were very popular among Chinese people.