"Old Things in Wulin: Lights" records: "People write poems with silk lights, laugh at them, draw words, hide their heads and swear words, and tease pedestrians." On the Lantern Festival, the imperial city stays up all night, and the people enjoy the Lantern Festival in spring. Lantern riddles are written on lanterns, reflected on candles and listed on the avenue, so they are called lantern riddles. Solve riddles on the lanterns became a riddle, and there is an interesting story.
According to legend, a long time ago, there was a rich man named a smiling tiger. When he saw a well-dressed man, he tried to please him. When he saw a poor man in rags, he blew his beard and stared. There was a young man named Wang Shao. Once when he went to borrow food, he was thrown out of the door because of his rags.
Wang Shao became more and more angry after he returned. On the night of Lantern Festival, he played a big lantern and came to the front of the smiling tiger's house. This big lantern is engraved with a poem. A smiling tiger came forward to watch, only to see that it said: the head is as white as silver, saying that there is no half.
Eyes up to the bottom, only clothes, not people. After reading it, the smiling tiger flushed with anger, flew into a rage and shouted, "Good boy, how dare you scold your master." He ordered his servant to get the lantern. Wang Shao hurriedly picked up the lantern and said with a smile, "Hey, master, don't be suspicious. My four poems are a mystery, and the answer is' needle'. Think about it.
How is this "needle" for you? Could it be that the "needle" told you? How else would you know it was you? "A smiling tiger thought, yes, I had to glare and fly away, and everyone around me laughed happily. After the story spread, it spread further and further.
In the second year of Lantern Festival, people followed suit and wrote riddles on lanterns for people to guess and shoot for fun. Since then, solve riddles on the lanterns has become an important activity of the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddles have been passed down to this day.
The moral of lantern riddles:
China Lantern Festival has a long history in solve riddles on the lanterns. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, traditional folks hang lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, fans of good deeds wrote riddles on paper and posted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Quizzes have gradually become an indispensable program for the Lantern Festival. The main moral of riddles is that they show the wisdom of ancient working people and their yearning for a better life.