Solve riddles on the lanterns is a traditional custom in China, but why only Yuanxiao meets solve riddles on the lanterns?

"Lantern riddle", also known as "playing riddles", is a unique form of entertainment with rich national style in China, and it is a characteristic activity of Lantern Festival that has been circulated since ancient times. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, every household hangs lanterns and sets off fireworks. Later, some busybodies wrote riddles on paper and pasted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because solve riddles on the lanterns can enlighten wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, many people responded. Later, solve riddles on the lanterns gradually became an indispensable program for the Lantern Festival.

Solve riddles on the lanterns is an interesting entertainment. Lantern riddles originated from the code words of the Western Han Dynasty and later developed into folk riddles, also known as "playing riddles". According to records, in the Southern Song Dynasty, solve riddles on the lanterns has become a game mode of the Lantern Festival. Zhou Mi in the Southern Song Dynasty said in "Old Wulin Stories": "When writing poems with silk lanterns, people will laugh, draw characters, cover their heads and swear, and tease pedestrians." This "hidden code word" is a mystery.

On the Lantern Festival, the imperial city stays up all night, and the people enjoy the Lantern Festival in spring. Lantern riddles are written on lanterns, reflected on candles and listed on the avenue, so they are called lantern riddles.

According to legend, a long time ago, there was a rich man named a smiling tiger. When you meet a well-dressed man, you try your best to curry favor with him; Seeing the poor man in rags, he blew his beard and stared. There was a young man named Wang Shao. Once when he went to borrow food, he was thrown out of the door because of his rags. Wang Shao became more and more angry when he went back. On the night of Lantern Festival, I tied a big lantern and came to the front of the smiling tiger's house. This big lantern is engraved with a poem. A smiling tiger came forward to watch, only to see it read: his head is as white as silver, and it is said that there is no half point; Eyes up to the bottom, only clothes, not people. ?

After reading it, the smiling tiger flushed with anger and flew into a rage, shouting, "Good boy, how dare you scold your master." He ordered his servant to get the lantern. Wang Shao hurriedly picked up the lantern and said with a smile, "Hey, master, don't be suspicious. My four poems are a mystery, and the answer is' needle'. Think about it. How is this "needle" for you? Could it be that the' needle' told you, or how do you know it was you? " A smiling tiger thought, yes, so he just glared angrily and left, and everyone around him laughed happily. After the story spread, it spread further and further.

In the second year of Lantern Festival, people followed suit and wrote riddles on lanterns for fun. So it's called "lantern riddle". Since then, solve riddles on the lanterns has become an important activity of the Lantern Festival. There are several chapters in A Dream of Red Mansions about guessing riddles on lanterns in the Qing Dynasty. Lantern riddles have been passed down to this day.

Although Spring Lantern Riddle belongs to the literary trail, it covers all aspects from astronomy to geography, classics to history and modern knowledge. Unless you have a certain cultural literacy, it is not easy to guess. And its mystery is enough to express one's feelings, exercise one's thinking and inspire one's spirit. This is an educational entertainment.