Characteristics of modern crossword puzzles
Modern crossword puzzles are developed on the basis of ancient crossword puzzles. After liberation, crossword puzzles, an ancient traditional cultural and recreational activity, gained a new life and showed a scene of vigorous development. This advanced riddle, which has always been appreciated and tasted by only a few literati, has been constantly appearing in various organized collective activities, and has developed to an unprecedented stage in both form and content, playing an increasingly important role in enriching people's cultural life and cultivating people's sentiments.
The characteristics of modern crossword puzzles are mainly manifested in the following five aspects:
(1) crossword puzzles have received unprecedented attention and support, and crossword puzzles and crossword puzzles have been widely popularized. In the past, crossword puzzles were played by only a few people. Even in the traditional Lantern Festival, only a few crossword puzzles met the masses. Now, crossword puzzles have become a regular item in New Year's Day, Spring Festival, May Day, National Day and various entertainment and party activities. During the period of 1979, a four-day national riddle quiz was held in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, which gathered all kinds of puzzles and became a great event in the history of contemporary crossword puzzles. In addition, the introduction of columns in various newspapers and magazines and their regular and irregular publication have greatly changed the way of spreading and guessing crossword puzzles. There are all kinds of books that collect and explain crossword puzzles in bookstores, which are in short supply. All these have played an important role in learning crossword puzzles, prospering the creation of crossword puzzles and promoting the study of crossword puzzles.
(2) Modern crossword puzzles have distinct characteristics of the times and play an important role in reflecting the development and changes of social life, the progress of the times and the prosperity of science. In modern crossword puzzles, many people eulogize a happy life and infinite yearning for the future. Dan Lu crossword puzzle: the old look is the new look. Zi Ling conundrum: China leads by one goal. It reflects people's increasing understanding of national strength. Another example is crossword puzzles: unite around the CPC Central Committee. The remaining puzzle: system reform changes people. It reflects people's confidence in reform and opening up. New socialist ideas, new morals and new fashions have also entered the crossword puzzle, injecting new blood into the crossword puzzle. Such as Russian crossword puzzles: ancestors have fallen behind. Eight-word puzzle: public and forget private. These puzzles have profound ideological significance and good social effects.
In order to meet the propaganda needs of situational education, some crossword puzzles are often done on a specific topic, which is entertaining and gives people a subtle influence. For example, in order to cooperate with afforestation and green the motherland, people have created a crossword puzzle: Arbor Day. Tea crossword puzzle: planting trees and grass has greatly changed the face. Fan crossword puzzle: Qi Xin and Qi Xin, great achievements in their forest and so on. In order to promote family planning, a Japanese crossword puzzle was created: promoting late marriage, everyone has a share. Crossword: A couple and a child. Puzzle: the national population must be controlled and so on. Another example is the autumn crossword puzzle: smoking every day is the cause. It is to promote smoking cessation. Xu crossword puzzle: Nanchang welcomes Chaoyang on August 1st. This is to celebrate the Army Day. Jar puzzle: National Day welcomes the morning sun. This is to celebrate the National Day.
With the pace of reform and opening up and the strengthening of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, a novel crossword puzzle with foreign letters and words came into being and became popular. If melons are connected with vines, vines are connected with melons to make riddles, guess the English letter Q, do riddles in English good morning, and guess a Chinese character Tan. They are all novel and interesting. In addition, new knowledge and technology have also entered the crossword puzzle. If you are using a unit for measuring sound intensity, make a difference (decibel). If you win, type a word (one in the box), and so on. These puzzles consciously use their unique social functions to serve modern society.
(3) Modern crossword puzzles have fully absorbed the essence of traditional crossword puzzles and developed healthily on the basis of continuous innovation. The traditional crossword puzzles in China are basically healthy. But there are also a few vulgar and backward things, especially ancient Chinese characters such as Fu Rui, prophecy, prophecy and divination, which are superstitious activities in the form of crossword puzzles. Therefore, we must be critical of the traditional crossword puzzle, take its dross and its essence, and make the crossword puzzle develop healthily under the new historical conditions. The attitude of modern crossword puzzles to traditional crossword puzzles is nothing more than inheritance, transformation and elimination. The eliminated parts of crossword puzzles, in terms of ideological content, are mostly vulgar or unhealthy, as well as stale feudal ethics preaching. From the form of expression, the eliminated part is too far-fetched, or too uncommon or bizarre in terms of words, allusions and cases. Such crossword puzzles are also unacceptable to modern people. On the contrary, those legendary crossword puzzles with healthy content, full of life, clever bottom buttons, popular and fluent language and vivid and interesting forms are mostly absorbed by modern crossword puzzles. For example, according to legend, it was a Japanese crossword puzzle written by Wang Anshi in the Northern Song Dynasty: draw a garden and write a square, with short east and long summer. It captures the shape and characteristics of the puzzle, highlights its internal contradictions, and the puzzle is concise and vivid, which is deeply loved by the people and widely circulated. Many crossword puzzles have also been rebuilt and appeared in a new look. Some take their manufacturing methods and endow them with the characteristics of the times. For example, in the Southern Dynasties, Bao Zhao's crossword puzzle: dry word nineteen, only standing without even; Kun is the second largest, just like two nights. This riddle is difficult for modern people to understand because it involves gossip knowledge. But according to its original meaning, the first two sentences of this riddle can get a word, and the last two sentences can get a cross. One and ten are consistent, which is the answer. Therefore, people now either change to mat exercise or do 100 minus 89. This riddle is easy to understand, the language is fresh and concise, full of the flavor of the times and easy to accept and spread.
On the basis of inheriting traditional crossword puzzles, modern crossword puzzles constantly create many new riddles that reflect the characteristics of the times. As far as the forms of crossword puzzles are concerned, people not only accept and inherit the ancient riddles such as poems, words, stories, things, paintings and crossword puzzles, but also constantly come up with new forms such as mathematical formula riddles, foreign alphabet riddles, Chinese phonetic alphabet riddles, seal riddles, poker riddles, chess riddles, symbol riddles, two-part allegorical sayings riddles, ballads riddles, calligraphy riddles and clock riddles, all of which are new. In addition, the making methods and rhetorical skills of puzzles are constantly improving, which is more developed than traditional puzzles.
(4) The modern crossword puzzle is an eclectic style with simplified characters as the main body, and traditional characters and variant characters are not excluded. The main object of crossword puzzles is words. The historical changes of Chinese characters' glyphs and fonts have a great influence on the compilation of crossword puzzles. After liberation, the government promulgated a script reform plan, which simplified Chinese characters and abolished some traditional and variant characters. Therefore, the modern popular Chinese characters with simplified characters as the main body are the answers to modern puzzles. If you listen to crossword puzzles: add half a catty. Doing crossword puzzles: a little effort. Wait, they are all designed for simplified Chinese characters. However, modern crossword puzzles do not completely exclude traditional Chinese characters and variant characters. If crossword puzzles are needed, they will also be used when variant characters or traditional characters enter. If progress is traditional, it can be divided into human (Beijing), walking (Beijing) and being good (Beijing). When doing the riddle of behavioral beauty, we must choose traditional Chinese characters. Another example is the rising variant. In order to express the meaning of the east is red and the sun rises, we still have to choose ascension as a crossword puzzle. Besides using traditional Chinese characters and variant characters in puzzles, some puzzles also use them. For example, get a crossword puzzle: over mountains and mountains. Ridge is a traditional form of ridge. A riddle means that if you go over one side of the mountain, you can get a riddle. This riddle is obviously not suitable for simplifying the word ridge. Although traditional Chinese characters and variants are not widely used in modern crossword puzzles, with the increasing cultural exchanges between the mainland and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas, mainland crossword puzzles flood into Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan or overseas, or overseas crossword puzzles are introduced into the mainland, and the number of traditional Chinese characters and variants will continue to increase, which deserves the attention of crossword puzzle makers and guessers.
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Basic structure
From the expression of the language structure of crossword puzzles, crossword puzzles consist of three parts: crossword puzzles, answers and puzzles.
A riddle is a word that is said or written to provide clues to a riddle.
The answer is the ontological thing that people have to guess.
A riddle, sometimes called a puzzle, is the real meaning of a riddle. In most crossword puzzles, one answer is a Chinese character.
A version of a riddle
Like other art forms, the most memorable and attractive thing about crossword puzzles is its external manifestation-crossword puzzles. This riddle embodies the essence of crossword puzzle. It usually consists of short and pithy words, phrases, sentences or ballads and poems with expressive power. Mysterious language has very special requirements. First of all, it should be concise, vivid and easy to understand. The main features of Chinese characters in crossword puzzles can only be vividly expressed by the images of things. It is not popular to pile up long, obscure and boring conceptual terms. Secondly, the main contents of the mystery are highly concentrated and summarized, such as the typical characteristics of Chinese characters, such as strokes, glyphs or lexical meanings of Chinese characters, which provide a true and credible basis for people to find and reveal the mystery. If the conditions provided by the riddle are not sufficient, people can't find the answer through this riddle, that is, the face is opposite to the bottom, and the riddle is not the answer. Third, it is generally not appropriate to describe the characteristics of Chinese characters in crossword puzzles in a direct way, but to hide the various situations of Chinese characters in crossword puzzles very cleverly and express themselves. A good riddle should be implicit, subtle and tortuous; Unshielded straightforward expression will destroy the interest of crossword puzzles and make them lose their due value. So riddles usually use a sentence with different meanings and full of hints. On the surface, it tells another story that has nothing to do with the real intention of the riddle, which induces people to take the completely opposite road to the riddle, but on the other hand, it is closely related to the Chinese characters of the riddle, thus causing "another solution" in the riddle. Solving puzzles is the main means to add mystery and complete crossword puzzles.
truth
In the form of crossword puzzles, people split and clutch regular Chinese characters in various ways that are not in line with the principles of philology. In this unpredictable physical isolation process, it not only highlights the characteristics of physical knots contained in Chinese characters, but also fully demonstrates people's intuitive understanding of the physical structure of Chinese characters. Studying crossword puzzles can reveal the laws of creation and design contained in crossword puzzles, help to sort out traditional national culture, and reveal the folk interpretation characteristics of orthodox Chinese characters that are outside the orthodox writing theory.
Here are some examples to illustrate this point. For example, "birds can't find their feet on the mountain, and they can't find water everywhere." This passage depicts a strange and vivid scene: a big bird flies to a hill. It stops falling behind and finds water everywhere, even its own feet are gone. The scene described in the riddle is strange, but this is not the main meaning it wants to express. In addition to the direct meaning of the riddle, there is another deeper meaning. The riddle not only tells the scene of big birds and mountains, but also puts forward various conditions or regulations. These conditions and regulations are related to Chinese characters. "Birds", "landing on the mountain", "feet missing" and "water all around" are all riddles that show us the situation. Chinese characters that meet these conditions are the answer. A bird with no feet landed on the hill, which should be the word "island". The meaning of the word "island" also meets the requirement of "there is water on all sides of the mountain". It can be seen that the riddle, similar to a code word full of suggestive meaning, is ready to guess all kinds of conditions and clues under a evasive appearance. Speculators can't be fooled by its superficial meaning. What he has to do is to think and understand the true meaning of this "code word" and find the correct answer according to the various regulations and restrictions shown in the riddle.
secret
A complete crossword puzzle, besides riddles and answers, there is also a riddle. Riddle is a word belonging to riddle, which plays a certain role in limiting the scope and quantity of riddle. The scope of the riddle is quite wide. Not only crossword puzzles, but also puzzles about things and things. The mystery of things is that the answer is the riddle of concrete things. A riddle is a riddle whose answer is a certain behavior or action. The mystery of things and the mystery of things are very different not only from the scope of puzzles, but also from the design and expression of puzzles. In order to make puzzles clear what answers they want to guess, it is necessary to use riddles in riddles to specify the approximate range of answers. At the end of a riddle, brackets are usually used to explain "typing" or "guessing" so that people can understand that this riddle is used to guess words. In crossword puzzles, another special function of puzzles is to distinguish one-sided puzzles from one-sided puzzles. One side is a riddle, which means there is only one answer to a riddle. Most crossword puzzles belong to this type. One side has many bottoms, that is, a riddle has two or more answers. This is also often used in crossword puzzles.
For example:
Only poplars are horses. (guess: type a word)-pestle
They are almost all soldiers. (Guess: Type 2)-Ping, Ping.
It's cloudy and dark, short and long, hot and cold day and night. (Guess: type a word)-Ming
Example 1 is a puzzle with one side and one bottom, and example 2 is a puzzle with multiple bottoms. As for example 3, it is a comparison between the left and right sides. If you only look at the words of the riddle, there is no obvious difference in expression between a riddle with one bottom and a riddle with many bottoms. In a sentence crossword puzzle, as long as it meets the conditions, it can be used to do one crossword puzzle or two or more crossword puzzles. In order to let the guesser know the exact meaning of this riddle, the number of riddles is specified by "typing one word" and "typing four words" after the riddle. The regulations and restrictions on the types of riddles and the number of words in riddles have pointed out the riddle path for the riddlers and unfolded the riddles.