Lantern Festival also has the worry, guessing riddles encounter network information overflowing mystery difficult to stay

Reporter Zhou Weiwei

March 5, China's Jiangsu Network, an employee of a public institution in the Soviet area in the past few days encountered a disturbing thing: Yuanxiao to guess riddles, led him to make some original riddles. "It's too hard. Xiao Hua brooded over a few nights, finally barely finished the task. He found some riddles from the internet and then processed them slightly. "Even if Baidu also want to move a bit of brains, otherwise everyone on the Internet to find the answer." "Xiao Hua's troubles are now the embarrassment of the culture of the riddle: the era of network information overflowing, the profound riddle of the lantern culture how to leave a place for its mystery refuge?"

In the history of Suzhou, lantern riddles have always been "strengths"

Suzhou Lantern Festival from the Tang Dynasty began to smell the world, the beginning of the Song Dynasty to increase the play on the Lantern riddle activities, for the Suzhou People Lantern Festival to increase the countless fun. Carefully "Kung fu old" said: "There is a silk lantern cut write poetry, when the ridicule, and painting characters, Tibetan-head lingo, and ancient Beijing Kehun language, teasing pedestrians." "In the Qing Dynasty, Suzhou literati Guro Narration of the customs of the" Qing Jia record "in Suzhou, a special chapter to record the custom of playing the Lantern Riddle:" Test lantern Riddles have 24, Cao E lattice for the most. ”

In ancient times, riddles are more like a literary contest between literati, by playing riddles to test the other side of the allusion to how to master, like the Ming Dynasty Tong Pak-Fu and Zhu Mountain is a master in the field of riddles. In modern times, Suzhou also has a lot of mystery experts, such as fee, Wang Shoulin, and so on, this batch of old "Enigma" in the National Lantern riddle field prestige extremely high.

Community organization guessing riddles, the main "was mobile phone"

Before the Lantern Festival, Suzhou Many units, streets, communities have organized a variety of lantern riddle activities. Yesterday afternoon, the Gu Soviet area Pingjiang Street Lantern Festival activities, playing the Lantern riddle has become the absolute protagonist of the whole activity. Street staff, in order to reflect the traditional characteristics of Lantern Festival Riddles, specially invited the District Lantern Association came to help, produced a group of Suzhou cultural characteristics of the original riddles, they also use a brush a stroke of thousands of riddles written on the paper. Can arrive at the scene, staff silly eye: should be the scholar gas full of riddles scene, unexpectedly became the smart phone competition speed game. "Riddles difficult to guess, I do not know who opened the head, think of using mobile phone Baidu search Riddle, immediately there are many people imitate operation, turned to see who search fastest." ”

The riddle became the mobile phone "search and search", such things will appear in almost every lantern riddle activity. In fact, not only will guessing riddles less people, who know how to compile riddles is more difficult to find. Gu Soviet Area Lantern Riddle Association deputy Secretary-General Peng Zhihao introduced, on the eve of the Lantern Festival they are obliged to accept a number of units invited to organize lantern riddle activities, let them regret that most of the organizers do not own a compilation of riddles, but in the network after a little change on the line. Many of them are not real riddles. "For example," some are actually allegorical sayings, such as "Hell Write Diary-Chinalens", some directly to the upper and lower sentence of a sentence into riddle and answers, such as "Blossom-colorful", some riddle and the answer even appeared the same word, which in the professional "Enigma" appears to have made "appearance" (Lantern riddle Culture of a proper noun) taboo.

In primary and middle schools, lantern riddle Culture hope heats up

Why is it so strenuous for modern people to guess riddles? In the network age, how should lantern riddle culture "Avoid net and live"?

In fact, the Lantern riddle is a very ingenious word game, there have been some people summed up the point-blank method, reflection method, sneak attack method, borrow code, Kana method, such as a variety of guessing techniques. Peng Zhihao told reporters that the cultivation of riddles in the "Don't solve", need to have a deep understanding of Chinese characters. For example, "June" the word, now commonly used meaning is "beautiful", and it also has a meaning is "laugh", such as "laughing" the word is to take this explanation, "the compilation of riddles, often riddle take a word, the answer is another meaning." "Peng Zhihao explained. The network age popular fast reading, people's writing habits more impetuous, so that lantern riddle inheritance less a soil, "every time the Lantern Riddle Association activities, almost all are a few old faces, mainly in the elderly, rarely see young people." "Peng Zhihao said.

However, in recent years, the focus of the lantern riddle continues to heat up, the reporter learned that, in addition to the "protection of traditional culture," the voice of more and more high, low cost, high popularity, good effect of the lantern riddle activities also advocated by the whole society and the practice of austerity. In Suzhou, the succession of lantern riddles also appeared a new bright spot: Enigma people "have entered the primary and secondary schools, to" language, history, political knowledge for the background of the preparation of riddles, so that children in the most familiar way to close to the Lantern riddle culture; all kinds of theme in line with contemporary social hot spots original riddles also came into being, such as "in front of a smile Answer the riddle for out-of-court settlement) "This kind of propaganda law riddles, only hope Haze no longer come (play an idiom, the answer is" in the clouds) "This environmental theme riddle.