In which newspaper did China's earliest guessing game appear?

Crossword puzzles are cheap entertainment for people in alphabet countries. Any newspaper will have a crossword column. After dinner, crossword puzzles are a collective pastime for many families and a good tool for children to increase their vocabulary.

The history of the maze of characters can be traced back to Pompeii in the first century. The crossword puzzle first appeared in new york World magazine on June 5438+0965438+February 2 1 2003. 1924 Simon &; Schuster Publishing Company published the first book of this kind of game, and the crossword puzzle developed explosively.

I'm not sure whether Xiao Qiang's crossword puzzle in Southern Weekend is the earliest Chinese crossword puzzle in Chinese mainland. But its influence is absolutely the biggest, so great that it has set off a wave of crossword puzzles in China, which has never stopped and is getting worse-almost every newspaper will have such a column.

At that time, the trial issue of Southern Weekend was revised, and many fresh and lovely columns were added on the basis of maintaining the inherent style of state affairs and people's livelihood. "Xiao Qiang crossword puzzle" is one of the best columns that impressed me the most.

Different from traditional crossword puzzles in alphabet countries, Xiao Qiang crossword puzzles examine not your vocabulary, but whether you are an intellectual of this era.

20 topics, from Tang poetry and Song poetry to Jin Yong's novels, from Stephen Chow movies to the latest scientific and technological achievements, are almost all-encompassing. One third of them belong to basic common sense, and TV grand prix contestants must answer questions. However, without the sanctimonious judges in the audience, you don't have to worry about not getting grades, and you don't have to worry about being ridiculed by the judges and becoming the laughing stock of the media and the audience. I just don't know if I don't know. You can ask for help or search online. It's really urgent. Find the answer directly.

Xiao Qiang crossword puzzle is good not only because it is early, but also because its difficulty coefficient is reasonable. In addition to the basic knowledge, about one-third need to think, and the latter one-third need to mobilize all the knowledge reserves and try to search.

"Xiao Qiang crossword puzzle" became a new pastime in Sanlitun at that time, and I often received calls from friends who gathered there to play crossword puzzles. Ask a rare Tang poem, I think, that's the phone that makes Beijing look the most like a cultural city.

Thanks to Wang Ergang, Xi, Lajiadu and other "Xiao Qiang". Especially on weekends when there is no "Xiao Qiang", I often miss them.

Later, Southern Sports and City Pictorial, which belong to the same group as Southern Weekend, also launched their own crossword columns.

The crossword puzzle of Southern Sports is very professional. Whether you are a comprehensive sports fan or not, just fill in "Southern Sports". Just the long names of football players in Central and North America and the Caribbean are a test.

The crossword puzzle of City Pictorial appears in the form of a special edition, which can definitely be played for several hours. This is basically an introductory answer sheet for fashion chasers. All kinds of trendy nouns are combined with new things, plus street names in Cantonese and lyrics of the latest songs in Hong Kong. You must be a tour guide when you go to Guangzhou.

Intellectuals acquire knowledge not for developing and spreading knowledge, but for fear that they know too little. Nothing to say, vulgar taste, behind the crowd of the whole era. Happy Dictionary and Lucky 52 are not qualified.

However, it is not enough to know only a few nouns.

Crossword puzzles are a great drink, telling you that there are still many common sense you don't know. There is nothing wrong with watching TV variety shows and online news every day, but you can still read books when you have time, especially books outside your major.

I like to write crossword puzzles in order to find my blind spot in knowledge and know that I still have many doors open.