Why do we have to guess lantern riddles during the Mid-Autumn Festival?

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone gathers together to guess lantern riddles, which is conducive to creating a festive atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Moreover, the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion is very suitable for playing such warm and educational games.

Lighting up Kongming lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional custom. For the sake of urban safety and avoiding fires, many areas have banned the lighting of Kongming lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Currently, the areas that inherit this tradition are concentrated in coastal and suburban areas.

Ancient women have always believed that there is a Guanghan Palace in the moon. In the Guanghan Palace lives a fairy named Chang'e. Chang'e is as beautiful as a flower and has a clever mind. Girls admire Chang'e and visit her every year. On the day when the moon is at its fullest, moon cakes, grapes, grapefruits, pomegranates and other foods are prepared and offered as offerings in front of the table. They worship with great concentration and pray for both virtue and talent, which expresses women's pursuit of their own beauty.

Extended information

On the full moon night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, many lanterns were hung in public places. People gathered together to guess the riddles written on the lanterns, because most young men and women At the same time, love stories are also spread in these activities, so Mid-Autumn Festival lantern riddle guessing has also been derived as a form of love between men and women.

There is no large-scale lantern festival like the Lantern Festival during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Playing with lanterns is mainly done among families and children. As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, "Old Martial Arts" recorded the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival, including the activity of "putting a "little red" lantern into the river to float and play."

Playing with lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival is mostly concentrated in the south. For example, at the Foshan Autumn Color Fair, there are various kinds of lanterns: sesame lanterns, eggshell lanterns, wood shaving lanterns, straw lanterns, fish scale lanterns, chaff lanterns, melon seed lanterns, bird and animal flower tree lanterns, etc.

Reference materials? Baidu Encyclopedia - Mid-Autumn Festival