1, about riddles
A riddle is a game of culture and language. It is usually a question composed of a group of words or symbolic languages, and its answer needs to be obtained by association, reasoning and judgment. Riddles have different forms and styles in different cultures.
2. About the zodiac
Zodiac is one of the twelve traditional animals in China, and each animal represents one year, which constitutes the 12 year cycle of the China lunar calendar. They are rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs.
3. About "Horse"
In the zodiac, "Ma" belongs to the seventh place, representing 1830, 1842, 1954, 1966, 1978,1990,2000. According to the traditional culture of China, the horse is a symbol of courage, freedom, quickness and agility, and also represents luck, success and courage.
4. Explanation of riddles
Riddle is a special language genre, which often requires vocabulary, language accumulation and logical thinking to solve. And the riddle title "Riding on a horse in a thousand words" is not very appropriate, just a joke.
Expand knowledge:
1, the zodiac includes mouse, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog and pig.
2. The origin of the zodiac is related to animal worship. According to the Qin bamboo slips unearthed in Yunmeng Shuihudi, Hubei Province and Fangmatan, Tianshui, Gansu Province, there was a relatively complete zodiac system in the pre-Qin period. The earliest handed down document that recorded the same Chinese zodiac as the modern one was Lun Heng written by Wang Chong in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
3. The zodiac is an intuitive representation of the twelve earthly branches, namely, Zi (mouse), Ugly (ox), Yin (tiger), Mao (rabbit), Chen Long, Si (snake), Wu (horse), Wei (sheep), Shen (monkey), You (chicken) and Xu (dog).
In this way, a concept interpretation system has been formed, which has become an image philosophy in folk culture, such as the zodiac in marriage, the blessing in temple fairs, the animal year and so on. In modern times, more people regard the zodiac as the mascot of the Spring Festival and become a symbol of entertainment and cultural activities.
4. As a long-standing symbol of folk culture, the Zodiac has left a large number of poems, Spring Festival couplets, paintings, calligraphy and paintings and folk arts and crafts depicting the image and symbolic meaning of the Zodiac. Apart from China, many countries in the world issue stamps of the zodiac during the Spring Festival to express their wishes for the New Year in China.