Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival. There are many traditional activities among Chinese people, such as eating dumplings, watching lanterns and guessing riddles. Many friends don't know why the Lantern Festival guessing riddles. Today, Xiaobian told us the origin and legend of guessing riddles.
Guessing lantern riddles, also known as playing lantern riddles, is a unique form of entertainment rich in national style in China. It is a characteristic activity of Lantern Festival that has been circulating since ancient times. Ÿ on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, every household should hang up colorful lights and set off fireworks. Later, some good people wrote riddles on paper and pasted them on colorful lights for people to guess. Because riddles can enlighten wisdom and cater to the festival atmosphere, so many people respond, and then riddles gradually become an indispensable program of the Lantern Festival.
Guessing lantern riddles is a fun activity. Lantern riddles originated from the Western Han Dynasty, and later developed into folk riddles, also known as "playing lantern riddles". According to records, in the Southern Song Dynasty, guessing lantern riddles has become a way of playing the Lantern Festival. In the old stories of Wulin, the Southern Song Dynasty said: 'poems are cut and written with silk lamps, which are used to ridicule, draw figures, hide hidden heads, and make fun of pedestrians. The 'hidden head' is a riddle.
During the Lantern Festival, there is no night in the imperial city. In the Spring Festival, people enjoy the Lantern Festival. People are miscellaneous. Poems and riddles are written on the lamp and reflected on the candle. They are listed on the thoroughfare. People can guess them. Therefore, they are called lantern riddles. What's the reason for Lantern Festival? There's an interesting story.
It is said that a long time ago, there was a rich man called a smiling tiger. When he saw the well-dressed, he tried to ingratiate himself. When he saw the poor in coarse clothes and ragged clothes, he blew his beard and stared. A young man named Wang Shao was once driven out of the gate when he went to borrow food because of his ragged clothes. Wang Shao thought more and more about it. On the night of the Lantern Festival, he put up a big lantern and came to xiaomianhu's house. There is a poem on the big lantern. Smiling tiger came forward to watch, only to see it said: head tip body thin white as silver, called & ucirc; half a cent. Eyes grow up to the buttocks, but clothes don't recognize people.
Look at it with a smile, red faced and furious, shouting: 'good boy, dare to scold the master. 'then he ordered his family to rob the lantern. Wang Shao & aelig; picked up the lantern and said with a smile:' Hey, master, don't be suspicious. These four poems are riddles. The answer is & lsquo; Needle & rsquo;. Think about it. How is this "needle" to you? Isn't it "needle" to you, or how do you know it's you? "He thought with a smile, but he was so angry that he stared at you and walked away. Zhou and Chi laughed happily. When it spread, it spread further and further.
The next year, people followed suit and wrote riddles on lanterns for people to guess and enjoy. In the future, guessing lantern riddles and playing lantern tigers have become important activities of the Lantern Festival.