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There is a prophecy: Bowen comes out and Liu Ji holds it. Jinmao Road, in the north. Word nest, the world is served. Golden knives are combined into Liu; Wozi, it's season. Emperor gaozu liu bang, word season. This prediction is obviously that Liu Bang wants to unify the world and create public opinion for the divine right of monarchy. In diplomatic situations, crossword puzzles are often used as weapons of struggle. The story of the reflection of the Three Kingdoms, Wu Shu Xue Zong: When he was on a mission to the State of Wu, he laughed at the name of Kan Ze, a senior minister, with a crossword puzzle in front of Sun Quan. Kan Ze is not good at this and can't answer. Zhang Feng couldn't help feeling smug when he thought that he had lost the face of the Wu people. At this time, Xue Zong, the minister of the State of Wu, attended and replied: I have a mystery to ask my husband:' Dogs are Shu without dogs; If you cross the fence, the worm will enter its abdomen. This mysterious poem is full of Shu characters, and I feel that the name of the country is insulting. I replied helplessly: Please compare your Wu state in this way again. General Xue replied: No mouth is heaven, and the mouth of heaven is the country; King's Landing is the capital of all countries. So all the officials laughed, and the shame Zhang Feng brought to himself made him very embarrassed. In military struggle, crossword puzzles are often used as contact signals for military operations. During the reign of Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty, Xu Jingye assembled Yangzhou troops to prepare for rebellion, and the secretariat ordered Pei Yan to coordinate within the imperial court. The result was not kept secret and leaked. When the imperial court tried Pei Yan's rebellion case, it only found a letter he wrote to Xu Jingye, in which only the word "Green Goose" was written. The civil and military officials in the Qing Dynasty were puzzled, and finally Wu Zetian saw through it and said, This is a code word. Young people,1February; Goose, I am self-sufficient and self-sufficient. The original green characters can be split into1February 3 font; The word goose can be divided into three words: ego and ego. Pei Yan agreed to the Xu Jingye1February uprising, and he wanted to start from the inside. From then on, Pei Yan surrendered to the law and the rebellion was defeated. People often use crossword puzzles as a weapon of struggle when they resist feudal rule and vent their dissatisfaction. According to the Records of the Five Elements in the History of the Later Han Dynasty, Xian Di and Dong Zhuo were good at power, subverting the Chaogang and killing the people, which caused strong dissatisfaction among the people. Therefore, people in Beijing make up nursery rhymes: Senecio, He; Ten days, no life. The Senecio in nursery rhymes is combined into Dong; On the tenth day, divination was combined into Zhuo characters; What he and BuSheng mean is that Dong Zhuo, despite his great power, can't escape the punishment of the people. This song cleverly curses the overbearing and unscrupulous authority. In ancient times, crossword puzzles were an important part of literary works, including proverbs, poems, novels, plays and various literary works. As early as the beginning of crossword puzzles in Wei, Jin and Northern Dynasties, ancient poems and songs had fully absorbed various forms of crossword puzzles. According to Zhai Hao's "Common Compilation, Knowing Redundancy" in the Qing Dynasty, in the folk songs such as midnight and reading classics in Yuefu in the Six Dynasties, homophony was often used to compare the meaning of poetry. For example, the fog hides hibiscus, and the lotus is not clear. Take hibiscus as the husband's capacity; Take lotus as pity (love). Look at the trail of the cow at dusk and you will know that it is a hoof mark. Beat with one's hoof. The sun in the east, the rain in the west, the wind and sunshine on the road. Take sunny as love Such mysteries are too numerous to mention. At that time, the literati also suppressed a sense of mystery and created many ancient poems with unique feelings. For example, Xie Lingyun, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote a clutch poem: The ancients complained about the letter, and the ten days were not over. It hurts to add me to my heart. The play is for tourists. Don't forget your virginity. This poem is five words and six sentences, full of sadness of parting. In every two sentences, the three words of mouth, strength and knife are implied by the law of separation and combined into other words. Like this kind of ancient poem, its poem (mystery) accords with mystery and its writing level is extremely high. The way of obscure meaning in ancient poetry is inherited by later poets, because it can gently pour out the poet's feelings and make poetry more implicit and rich. Such as Tang Mengchi's poem "Boudoir Love": There are mountains on the mountain that don't return, and the Xiangjiang River flies in the rain. There is a mountain on the mountain, which not only writes about the hardships of the journey, but also hides a word, which gives full play to the expressive force of Chinese characters, just like making the finishing point, adding luster to the whole poem. Stone "Burning an Open Fire at Night": Sit and watch eighteen gongs and throw ashes. Using eighteen males to hide a rambling character is very clever in personification and also benefits from the illegality of crossword puzzles.
An important part of the story.
Crossword puzzles used in novels and operas often become an important part of the whole story. The legendary novel Xie Xiaoe Biography written by Li Gong of Tang Dynasty said that Xie Xiaoe's father and fiance were killed by thieves when they went out. That night, Xie Xiaoe saw her father in a dream and said, Who killed me? The monkey in the car, the grass in the east. I also dreamed that her fiance said: whoever kills me will walk in the grass for a day and be a husband for a day. These two words imply the names of the murderers Shen Lan and Shen Chun. After Xie Xiaoe solved the mystery, she disguised herself as a man and made an unannounced visit, so she avenged her father's death. This story, which takes crossword puzzles as the main clue to catch the murderer and help solve the case, is very unique and has a unique conception, which opens the way for later crossword puzzles to enter the novel story. In China's traditional drama, crossword puzzles are full of fun. In the Romance of the West Chamber written by Dong Jieyuan in Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Sheng and Yingying meet privately, and there is a poem "The Moon on the Night of March 5th" sent by the matchmaker, among which three or five times allude to the evening of 15th. At this time, Yingying's conscious anger when answering the book and solving the riddle, the matchmaker's panic when he didn't solve the riddle, and the joy after seeing Zhang Sheng solve the riddle made the whole play reach its climax. As elegant music in banquets, entertainment and other gathering occasions. Ji Xu's speed in solving crossword puzzles is a way for the ancients to identify each other's talents. Shi Shuo Xin Yu Wu Jie records that Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei Dynasty, led an army to pass the Cao E Monument. See the inscription on the tablet: yellow silk young woman, grandson mortar. So he asked Yang Xiu, do you understand this book? Yang Xiu replied: Yes. Wei Wudi said: Let's not talk about this for the time being, let me think about it. On March 30th, Wei Wudi said, I have it. Two people answer questions to each other and know that yellow silk is a kind of colored silk, and its color and tone are unique. Young women are young women, and it is better to combine them; Grandson, a woman's son, is a good match; Mortar is a pungent thing, which is a combination of acceptance and acrimony. The inscription on the stone tablet contains the word "wonderful and good". As soon as the mystery was solved, I sighed and said, I'm not as good as Qing, but I feel it's three miles.
At banquets and other gathering occasions, people often use crossword puzzles instead of drinking, singing and dancing for entertainment, rewarding those who guess correctly and punishing those who don't. Yang Xuanzhi's "Galand in Luoyang" in the Northern Wei Dynasty records that once Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty gave a banquet to entertain the ministers. When the wine is warm, toasting is a mystery: three or three horizontal, two or two vertical, who can tell the difference in a catty. . Three, three, horizontal, two, two, vertical are strokes to remove feathers, admiralty is a wine glass, also called Dabai in ancient times. Learn Chinese characters by combining feather characters with white characters. This riddle was guessed by King Cheng Peng, which is a very pleasant thing. Gao Yuan Deji's "Ping Shan Chronicle" said that when Yuan Dalu's flowers were stripped of red and eight thorns, they got together one day and once casually commanded: a word has four words and a cross; There are four crosses in a word. The first two sentences refer to the picture, and the last sentence refers to the completion. The puzzle was so difficult that no one here guessed correctly, and everyone was fined a large glass of wine. The date of construction and reconstruction of ancient monuments and tombs, the name of the owner of the monument, and the age of formation. Whether you know the special expression of crossword puzzles and whether you can accurately decipher ancient crossword puzzles often becomes the key to textual research and identification of ancient books and cultural relics. There was a famous historical book Yue Jue Shu in Guangwu era of Eastern Han Dynasty. This book doesn't have the author's name, but it is replaced by poetry in the preface. The poem says: Take going as your surname and getting clothes as your success. There is one meter in the name, which continues with Geng. Yu Donglai, buried in his hometown. If you don't blame yourself, class is self-evident. Wen is a word, and he is a sage of the country. Take the mouth as the surname and carry on the family line. Chu Xiang Qu Yuan, with the same name. The author of this book has never been known because it doesn't say who wrote it. In the Ming Dynasty, Yang Shen, a great writer, carefully studied the preface of this book, only to know that this book was written by Yuan Kang and Wu Ping of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the original poem, going is the surname and getting clothes is the merit, which alludes to the word "yuan"; Jue Ming Mi, with Geng Xu, refers to Kang; Yu Donglai died when he was buried in his hometown, because the author said that he was a Hui Ji person. Take the mouth as the surname, inherit the sky, and allude to a Wu word; Chu Xiang Qu Yuan, with the same name, is a metaphor for a flat character (Qu Yuan's name is Ping). With the solution of this mystery, Yuejueshu has been paid more and more attention and become an important historical book to study the history of wuyue during the Warring States Period.
When Xu Xuan, the father of the Southern Tang Dynasty philologist, was a county magistrate in Yixing, Jiangsu Province, he dug up a stone tablet of Xu Qi Temple, an official at the end of the Han Dynasty. The inscription was written by Xu Shao, a famous scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He commented that Cao Cao was a wise minister in the world and a treacherous man in troubled times. The inscription is gorgeous and magnificent, but the last eight words speak of Ma Bili, who is in charge of Tianqi, but I don't know what they mean. It took Xu a long time to figure out that these eight words were a crossword puzzle, which alluded to a comeback. It turned out that the inscriptions on Xu Qi's tomb were eroded by wind and rain. By the Tang Dynasty, the inscriptions had all been eroded and blurred. During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, when the Xu descendants were repairing the tomb, they re-engraved the original tablet and added these eight words. Talking about horses refers to Xu; Grinding refers to the inscription; The main field refers to duplicate words; Count seven fingers and stand up. If you don't know what it means to talk about Ma Bili and counting seven in the main field, you will mistake the stone tablets re-carved in the Tang Dynasty for those in the Han Dynasty.
Ancient crossword puzzles were also used. For example, character testing, lottery, fortune telling, dream interpretation and divination all use Chinese characters to confuse and deceive people. Song Dynasty's "Cai Tae talks about Tiewei Mountain": When Song Huizong was in China, Xie Shi, a native of Chengdu, made a fortune by writing big characters in Beijing and was famous for his fortune telling. One day, Song Huizong asked the Prince of the East Palace to write the word "Prince" and asked Xie Shi to calculate it. Xie Shi knew this for a long time. When he saw this word, he pretended to be surprised and said: This word has the style of a son of heaven! The dots under the word' Tai' are written longer, just like a horizontal line. If you move this over the word "big", isn't that the word "heaven" of the son of heaven? This method of changing characters by moving strokes is widely used in life signs.
The earliest crossword puzzles originated in the Han and Wei Dynasties. Liu Xie's "Wen Xin Diao Long Zangpian" said: Since Wei Dynasty, it has not been condescending, but the gentleman laughed and turned into a riddle. Liu Xie said that riddles came into being in Wei and Jin Dynasties because the literati at that time created many independent and complete crossword puzzles. For example, Kong Rong, a great writer at that time, wrote a poem named Hezuo County, with four words in each sentence and one word in every four or two sentences. The whole poem is twenty-two sentences long, * * * eighty-eight. The full text is as follows:
Fishermen bend over and water hides; Keep pace with the times and leave the temple. Lv Gong Loki hook, lower mouth; The nine realms are sacred, and no soil is king. Goodness is integrity, and women belong to Kuang; There are herrings overseas, and falcons fly. Six purlins will be excited, but the feather instrument is not obvious; The sting of the dragon and snake is unforgettable (Kong Rong's words and deeds). Kong Rong's "Parting Poems" is recognized as the first complete and mature crossword puzzle made in China. In this period, in addition to the form of poetry, people often use objects other than language to express the mystery of words. Shi Shuo Xin Yu Wu Jie records that when Yang Xiu was the editor-in-chief, he built a state house for Cao Cao. When the roof truss was first built, Cao Cao came out to inspect it, which was quite unpleasant. So he wrote a movable type on the door of Guo Xiang Building and left without saying a word. At the sight of this word, Yang Xiu immediately had the gate of Guo Xiang House torn down and rebuilt. He said: adding the word' live' to the' door' is the word' wide'. Wang Wei is too big. After the story spread, Cao Cao's ingenuity in making riddles and Yang Xiu's success in solving riddles were described as beautiful stories by people at that time. In the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, crossword puzzles became popular. Many scholars and celebrities like crossword puzzles and think it is elegant music. Pan Yue in Jin Dynasty, Xie Lingyun, Xie Huilian and Bao Zhao in Southern Dynasty, Wang Rong in Qi State, Xiao Xunzhi and Chen Shenjiong in Liang State, etc. , have made a lot of similar to Kong Rong's clutch crossword puzzle. Of course, from the perspective of the jigsaw puzzle making skills in this period, there has been great development. On the side of clutch characters, pictographs, metaphors, understanding, name culture and other methods are also mixed, which has a positive impact on later crossword puzzles.
In the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, riddles and riddles were very popular. Crossword puzzles are no longer limited to scribes, but have penetrated into every corner of social life. Various traces left by crossword puzzles can be found in nursery rhymes, Fu Rui's divination, inscriptions, seal script, novel notes, acrobatic skills and wine argot. From emperors and princes to ordinary people, it has become a temporary trend to take mystery as fun, take mystery as a play and compete for riddles. In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, crossword puzzles and crossword puzzles were also regarded as a skill, and some people could make a living by doing it. The best of them will be famous all over the world and will remain immortal. Song and Wu's Lecture on the History of Dreams and Novels: Those who have fought many battles, beat the drums first to congratulate them. Then gather people to guess poetry puzzles, word puzzles, crime puzzles and social puzzles, all of which are code words. ..... HangZhi guessing, and said a thing or two, if there is a monk and Ma Dingzhai, remember to ask BoQia, his reputation has been circulating for a long time. This just shows the popularity of crossword puzzles at that time and people's respect for people who can do crossword puzzles and 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 by only a few scholars, 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.