Brief introduction of lantern riddles

Lantern riddles are the crystallization of ancient people's wisdom in China and the traditional culture and art in China. Lantern riddles, as the name implies, are riddles written on lanterns. Riddles originated from ancient folk oral riddles, and were later processed into crossword puzzles by scholars, which have spread in China so far. Lantern riddles first appeared in the Song Dynasty. Scholars put riddles on lanterns for people to guess. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, solve riddles on the lanterns was very popular among the people.

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Lantern riddles generally consist of riddles, riddles and answers. Lantern riddles take advantage of the polysemy of Chinese, not riddles, from which other meaning is derived. As long as there are words on the riddle, it can't appear in the answer, otherwise it will "offend each other at the bottom."

Solve riddles on the lanterns is not only an entertainment activity, but also contains profound cultural connotations. In the ancient Lantern Festival, people went to see lanterns, and in solve riddles on the lanterns, literati drank on lanterns, wrote poems and solved riddles. There are also many kinds of riddles: children's riddles, crossword puzzles, animal riddles, idiom riddles and so on.

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Lantern riddle Baidu encyclopedia