In the 1970s, we learned from interviews with more than 30 people over 70 and 80 who died one after another that there were two "Tiger Kings" in Changhuaiwei Street at the end of Qin Dynasty: one was called Zhang Zhuo, who was called "Jiao Gui"; The other is Chen Qi, known as the "charming ghost". These two people can not only shoot tiger characters, but also guess tiger characters. One night in 2002 BC1February, Xiang Yu fled south from Gaixia (now Guzhen County) overnight, crossed the Huaihe River, passed by Changhuai Wei and met these two "word Tiger Kings". They know from appearance and folklore that this is Xiang Yu, the overlord of the West Chu. They also heard that Xiang Yu didn't love Liu Bang, so they used the word tiger (that is, crossword puzzle) to trick Xiang Yu and his party into the reedy lake swamp, and used the crossword puzzle "Cui" to describe Xiang Yu, the second half of Cui, who died. This crossword puzzle has been handed down to this day.
In the 15th year of Jian 'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Pi went down the Guo River from Bo County (now Bozhou City) with the Southern Expedition Army, entered the Huaihe River, and drove eastward to the Changhuaiwei Wharf for a short rest. Cao got off the boat and occasionally saw and watched the lively scene of Changhuai Wei's "Word Tiger Can Guess".
During the Northern Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo, a great literary master, arrived in Hangzhou at the age of 36 and took a boat down the Huaihe River, passing by Fantuanzhou (now Changhuai Wei). By the way, after getting off the boat, he was very happy at the "Chongyang Xuan opportunity" in Changhuai Wei.
In the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Huaiwei's riddles became more prosperous. Zhu Yuanzhang, the great ancestor of Ming Dynasty, visited the Changhuaiwei Lantern Festival many times and made an impromptu decree that Fengyang County should allocate special funds to build a lantern riddle museum (now in the 21st Middle School). Based on this, we will make a lantern riddle activity in Changhuai Wei, make friends with lantern riddles from all directions, and recruit all the wise men in the world to engage in the great cause of lantern riddles. At that time, the guessing atmosphere of Changhuai Wei was very warm. From the palace to the folk, there are family puzzles, home puzzles, teacher-student puzzles, business puzzles, industry puzzles, holiday puzzles, old people puzzles, children puzzles, Chongyang puzzles, Mid-Autumn Festival moon-watching puzzles, Lantern Festival puzzles and so on. There are crossword puzzles, figure puzzles, painting puzzles, poetry puzzles, chess puzzles, seal puzzles, color puzzles, symbol puzzles, couplet puzzles, story puzzles, calligraphy puzzles and so on. Among the types of guessing, there are guessing, guessing, fighting, analyzing and appreciating. Among them, the content of the appreciation puzzle is more diverse. There are puzzles, puzzles, puzzles and so on. In addition to all kinds of guessing rooms, the Changhuai Mystery Museum also has a puzzle making room, which specializes in making new puzzles. There is also a jigsaw teaching hall, which specializes in explaining the knowledge of jigsaw puzzles, guessing skills and methods of making puzzles, and training puzzles.
Changhuai wei ren not only knows playing riddles and solve riddles on the lanterns, but also is good at using riddles. There have been many riddles and anecdotes such as Agricultural Exhibition, Solving Mysteries and Killing People, Solving Mysteries in Hell, Mysterious Children Going to the Fair, Zhang Naidian's Drama, and Love Letter of Marriage Proposal. It is really interesting, vivid and tortuous, dazzling and amazing. It has played a role in invigorating, prospering and developing the riddles in Daming Mountain.
In the Qing Dynasty, the riddle of Changhuai Wei continued to prevail.
During the period from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, the war in Changhuaiwei area continued, and people lived in poverty. People live in dire straits. Activities in solve riddles on the lanterns were interrupted. After the founding of New China, Changhuaiwei Company was looted by three floods and ten years' turmoil, and the lantern riddle activities in Changhuaiwei were always in a depressed and stagnant stage, and the representative inheritors of the lantern riddle cause died one after another. It was not until after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party that Changhuai Wei had a cultural station and the lantern riddle cause was reborn. Establish a riddle association, publish a riddle column, and carry out riddle quiz activities.
With the progress of the times, the development of society and the improvement of life quality, people's life tastes and hobbies have undergone new changes. Especially with the popularity of TV sets and the wide application of computers, riddles are gradually forgotten by people. Therefore, we need to pay more attention to digging, collecting and sorting out, find out the original historical features of the prosperity of riddles, inherit the traditional precious cultural heritage, and make new progress on this basis, so as to improve the cultural level of the whole nation and prosper the literary and artistic positions.