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Guess the origin of the lantern riddle during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Learn Yushan 2016-09-21 14:58:58Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, August Meeting, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Daughter's Festival or Reunion Festival, is a traditional cultural festival popular in many ethnic groups in China and East Asian countries, when it is on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar.

There are many legends and activities about the Mid-Autumn Festival, how much do you know about the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival lantern riddles?

Lantern riddles are an art form of Chinese folk literature; It is the wisdom and crystallization of the people in the long-term labor practice, which comes from life and is used for life; It is also a kind of intellectual activity game that people like to see. It attracts enthusiasts from all walks of life from all walks of life, so that people can increase their knowledge and enlighten their wisdom at the same time, and at the same time get wonderful enjoyment.

The Mid-Autumn Festival lantern riddle has a long history in our country and has a history of more than 3,000 years. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a "hidden language", which was the prototype of lantern riddles. By the Han Dynasty, "hidden language" began to diverge into two directions.

a type of riddle that mainly describes characteristics; Another type of literary riddle is based on the shape and meaning of words. In the Wei Dynasty, it was called "riddles". During the Sui and Tang dynasties, with the prosperity of poetry, a large number of poetic riddles appeared and became the mainstream.

Since the Song Dynasty, some literati and scholars often posted riddles on various lanterns on the night of the Lantern Festival to attract passers-by to guess, and this is how the "lantern riddles" came about. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the mystery wind flourished, and many mystery masters emerged. After the Xinhai Revolution, the lantern riddles formed two styles of the southern sect and the northern school, and in the old society, because most of the riddlers were scholars and doctors, some literati pretentiously and highly, one-sidedly emphasized elegance and rejected folk lantern riddles.

After the liberation, under the guidance of the party's literary and artistic policy of "letting a hundred flowers bloom", the lantern riddle activities were more vigorous, and the riddles were increasingly perfected and enriched, making great contributions to the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and the enlivening of the cultural life of the masses. At present, overseas Chinese all over the world have lantern riddle activities and lantern riddle academic exchanges.

Guess the lantern riddles. The Mid-Autumn Festival has the traditional custom of guessing lantern riddles since ancient times, and in the areas where the traditional culture is well preserved, there is still the custom of appreciating lanterns and guessing lantern riddles during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also a kind of preservation and inheritance of traditional culture, so in the area where the Mid-Autumn Festival lantern riddles are retained, its liveliness and complexity are no less than the Lantern Festival. <

Guess the lantern riddles. The Mid-Autumn Festival has the traditional custom of guessing lantern riddles since ancient times, and in the areas where the traditional culture is well preserved, there is still the custom of appreciating lanterns and guessing lantern riddles during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also a kind of preservation and inheritance of traditional culture, so in the area where the Mid-Autumn Festival lantern riddles are retained, its liveliness and complexity are no less than the Lantern Festival.