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The history of riddles is very long. There are many riddles in the pre-Qin ancient books Zhouyi, Zuozhuan and Xunzi. According to Zhou Zuoren's textual research, the words "breaking bamboo, spreading bamboo, flying soil and point by point" in Wu Yue Chun Qiu may be the earliest riddle to describe hunting. However, some scholars believe that the Shang Dynasty ballad "Women Carrying Baskets" in Zhouyi can be regarded as one of the earliest riddle records in China: "Women carrying baskets are not real; Stone seals sheep, no blood. " It cleverly shows the scene of a young shepherd couple shearing wool on the pasture. During the Warring States Period, Xunzi wrote a "Silkworm Fu", saying, "Travel in winter and in summer; When you eat mulberries, you spin silk; When it is chaotic, it will be treated later; When you were born in summer, you hated the heat. When you are wet, you hate rain. Pupa misses mom, moth misses dad, big deal. In this paper, the morphology, function and habit of silkworm are vividly and meticulously described by metaphor, just like a riddle. Dong Fangshuo in Han Dynasty was a master of humor. He likes making argot very much, and he likes popularizing argot. He said in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty: "The humor of the new moon is superficial, and it is inevitable to show off when children are upright, but the good people of later generations attach strange words to it." "But at that time, there was no such title as" riddle ".The word" riddle "began to appear when Bao Zhao, a poet in the Southern Dynasties, wrote" Three riddles ". Liu Xie's Wen Xin Diao Long? 6? 1 He Yin is the earliest literary theory work to explain riddles. The book said: "Since Wei Dynasty, there has been no superior, but the gentleman ridiculed and concealed it and turned it into a riddle. Since then, the word "riddle" has been officially used and widely circulated. In the Song Dynasty, with the rise of citizen literature and art, riddles had reached a very popular level. For example, during the Southern Song Dynasty, people in Hangzhou would put riddles on blue gauze lanterns during the Lantern Festival, hence the name "riddles". Now people say riddles are actually riddles, which are not necessarily attached to lamps. A folk artist who was good at writing riddles appeared in the Ming Dynasty. Tian Rucheng's Notes on Traveling to the West Lake records how to solve riddles at the Lantern Festival in Hangzhou: "People in Hangzhou used riddles like solve riddles on the lanterns and named them Shang Lue. At the beginning of Yongle, Yang Jing in Qiantang was blind and famous for his mystery. "Before the Ming Dynasty, there were no books devoted to riddles, and some riddles were scattered in history books, poems and notes. In the Ming Dynasty, there were books devoted to the study of riddles, such as Notes of the Mystery Society and Qianwenhu, but most of these books have been lost. Feng Menglong edited the special collection "The Mystery of Huangshan Mountain" and collected a large number of ancient riddles, leaving many interesting riddle materials for future generations. In modern times, riddles have become an important literary form to enliven popular cultural life, increase knowledge, broaden horizons and enlighten wisdom. Various riddles research works and albums have been published one after another, with a large number. A riddle consists of three parts: a riddle, a riddle and a riddle. Riddle is the carrier of riddle, also called "table". It is a single word, multi-word, idiom, ancient and modern poetry sentence or sentence written by the author, and it can also be graphics or other symbols and formulas, but it mostly appears in the form of short ballads, rhymes or poems. A riddle refers to the range of things that a riddle requires to guess, which is generally marked by "hitting something" or "hitting something". If the scope of speculation is not specified, the guesser will be at a loss and difficult to guess. The answer refers to what the riddle requires to guess, that is, the ontology of the riddle. The guesser should find out the actual thing it refers to and guess the answer within the scope specified in the riddle. Guess should also pay attention to certain methods. Some seemingly difficult riddles actually have their "secrets", which are puzzles. " Learn puzzles first and then grids. " A puzzle is an additional condition of a riddle, that is, a special regulation or a specific guessing formula. A riddle with a grid must be guessed according to the format specified in this riddle in order to guess correctly. There are many puzzles and different guessing methods. At present, there are several commonly used puzzles: transliteration puzzles, such as scrolls, upstairs, downstairs, falling heads, falling tails, swings, banana hearts and so on. See crossword puzzles, such as shrimp Xu Ge, broken brocade grid, dovetail grid, spread wing grid, flying head grid, curly tail grid, middle grid, etc. Half-reading crossword puzzles, so on. Reread puzzles, such as palindromes, leaving qualifications, etc. Read crossword puzzles harmoniously, such as Whitehead Plaid, Pear Plaid, Foundation Plaid, Fair Plaid, etc. Misread riddles, such as riddles.