Luminous goggles also speak riddles

Guessing is a noble entertainment that requires knowledge, wisdom and imagination, so Europeans call it "mental gymnastics" or "mental sports".

　　In ancient and modern China and abroad, in addition to guessing puzzles in ordinary times, people often hold guessing activities during festive festivals, such as China's Lantern Festival spotlight riddles.

　　Carnivals in Europe in the fifteenth century also flourished in the open air, and if the wanderer's guessing score reached a certain score, he could get free accommodation. At the end of the seventeenth century, london's popular café guessing, every afternoon, the regular customers of the café gathered together, while relishing the taste of coffee, while playing with great interest, this custom became popular among the small citizens. From the Middle Ages to before World War II, rural women in Western Europe were addicted to guessing. On winter nights, after dinner, the village women gathered together to spin yarn, sing songs, guess puzzles, and tell stories.

　　Good riddles are simply humorous poems, many riddles are written by famous poets, and schiller and Goethe of Germany often do riddles and contribute to German folk literature.

　　Chinese lantern riddles are more poetic, Qing Wei Xiuren mentioned a poem "Waves and Sands" in "Traces of the Flower Moon", each sentence is a riddle, very wonderful: the road to the long way (Qupai I), the recitation of the female unprovoked (Tang poems), the long night alone to endure five more cold (a sentence of the Book of Poetry), the mirror self-shock (Tang poems two sentences), reduced Zhu Yan (beauty name one). Harushin to Chongguan (flower name one), Midorigmei Mountain (medicine name one). On a sunny day, there is an agreement to be a group circle (a thing in "Dream of the Red Chamber"), and the biluo yellow spring is still looking for it (the second sentence of the "I Ching"), not to mention the human world (a sentence of "Zhuangzi"). Only four of the sentences are explained in the book, namely: the road is long - looking at the long journey; the long night is five more cold - "winter night"; the blue and yellow springs are still looking for - "the upper is not in the sky, the lower is not in the field"; on sunny days, there is an agreed group - "Wind and Moon Treasure Book".

　　Women also play an important role in guessing activities. There are many stories of the bride using riddles to test the groom, and the princess must choose a horse to produce three riddles, and the one who guesses is selected, and the one who guesses is not selected loses the hat.

　　In ancient Greek mythology, there is a famous myth: the winged sphinx likes to ask the passers-by to guess the puzzle, and if he does not guess, he will be killed. Once she came up with a riddle, one of the gods, Oedipus, solved the mystery - man, Sphinx actually committed suicide in anger, it turned out that the female monster's guessing skills were stolen from the human world.

　　Folklore says that in the Middle Ages there was a choir musician who owed money to a nobleman who was unable to repay it, who was not only rich, but also very conceited. He had already taken a fancy to the musician's wife, so he came up with three extremely difficult riddles, which the musician could guess within three days, and if he guessed correctly, the debt was written off, otherwise the wife would be paid off. However, the clever and beautiful wife helped her husband guess the riddle, and the nobleman had to give up.

　　How to compile high-quality riddles is a science (especially Chinese riddles, there are many that must be guessed according to the puzzle grid). The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle mentioned in The Art of Eloquence that riddles are metaphors, a definition that is fairly precise.

　　In the eighteenth century, the German scholar Hunold put forward an incisive insight: an important point in compiling riddles is that the first sentence allows a little farther away from the topic, and the last sentence must be the most relevant and suggestive, so that the riddle can be attractive. (Chen Yupeng)