Look for the word Tang Dynasty 16.

According to the correct order from top to bottom, we can get sixteen words: wide, long, appropriate, timely, oral, second, third, comfortable, legendary, ancient, earth, dry, windy, auspicious and tongue; Zigzag is a fun puzzle game, which I believe many people have played. This game originated very early and became popular at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but it was not called "Fenzi" at that time, but called "clutch poem".

Character separation

The entertainment function of literature is largely manifested through word games. Compared with other characters in the world, Chinese characters have unique advantages in this respect, because its box structure is most suitable for word games. Tracing back to the source, our ancestors planted the gene of "play" when they created words, such as the word "father", which is said to be "holding a staff" in Shuowen, and the word "mother" is "like milk".

In addition, the interpretation of characters in later generations is also rich in game elements, such as "Tian is a husband" and "a knife on the head of the color word", all of which use glyphs to illustrate a certain truth. Some examples of divination in the Han Dynasty also made use of the separability of Chinese characters. For example, the nursery rhymes quoted in Pei Songzhi's note in the History of the Three Kingdoms: "A thousand miles, He Qingqing; Ten days of divination, still unborn ",is to curse Dong Zhuo by" spelling ". "Senecio" is the word "East" and "Xunbu" is the word "Zhuo". This method of role separation is very common in later games.