What are the types of riddles?

Generally speaking, riddles can be divided into two categories, one is called the riddle of things, which is often said; The other is called word riddle, which is also often called lantern riddle.

The mystery of things

Also known as folk riddles and children's riddles. Except for a few crossword puzzles, the answers to crossword puzzles are mostly "things" and "things" commonly used in our lives. For example, animals, plants, various vessels, articles, human organs, natural phenomena, cosmic celestial bodies ... It usually takes the form of catchy folk songs or short poems. For example:

Guess the word: there are horses traveling thousands of miles, there are water to raise fish, there are people who are not you and me, and there are soil to grow grain. Answer: Yes.

Guess an animal: it has a head without a neck, eyes without eyebrows, a tail without hair, and wings that are difficult to fly. Answer: fish.

Guess the plant: there are silkworms, no insects in the hole, no umbrella, no bees in the nest. Answer: lotus root.

Guess: Although the name is negative, it is actually very positive. I am busy with my work all day, and I work very hard. Answer: Tractor.

Guess what: two brothers are the same height. When they go out, they compete. They are always at the same distance, but they can't catch up. Answer: bicycles.

Guess daily necessities: your mouth can't talk, and your stomach doesn't eat steamed buns. Although there is no stomach trouble, I vomited a lot of yellow water. Answer: teapot.

Guess human organs: if the foundation is not deep, you must stand tall. If you want to look at your hobbies for a long time, it is difficult to calculate the cost of effort to look beautiful. Answer: hair.

Guess the natural phenomenon: like a cloud in Feiyun, like smoke but not smoke, the wind blows gently and the sunrise dissipates slowly. Answer: fog.

Guess the work: thousands of people weave splendid scenery and bend over to sweat. Originally the sea of Wang Yang, it suddenly became an oasis. Answer: Transplanting.

(2) Word riddles

Literal riddles are also called lantern riddles. Its answer is words that express any kind of meaning. So the scope of the answer is quite wide. Including single words, various words, phrases, short sentences and so on.

Please look at some riddles below:

Farmer (name a writer) A: Tian Han.

Anxious to return's answer: thinker.

Serve people with virtue (a place name in Liaoning Province) Answer: Fushun.

Kill at high speed (hit a musical noun) answer: Allegro.

Finger electrocution (type A) Answer: Mo.

The answer to the campaign of killing rats (in military terms): the war of attrition.

Looking at the treasure island of the motherland (playing a sports facility): the stands.

(3) The difference between the riddle of things (folk riddle) and the riddle of words (lantern riddle)

The mystery of things and the mystery of meaning are riddles, and they have something in common. For example, their basic structure is the same, that is, they all have riddles, riddles and answers.

Look at a folk riddle first:

Mystery: Seven-layer mattress and eight-layer quilt, one black sleeps in it, and the other red comes to call the door, kick the mattress and kick the quilt. Mystery: Play an entertainment project. Answer: firecrackers.

Look at another riddle:

Mystery: Keep your hair. Mystery: play idiom one. Answer: Ignore.

What's the difference between them? Let's compare it from several aspects.

(1) Puzzles and answers are locked in different ways.

Except for a few crossword puzzles, most folk riddles are based on the appearance characteristics of things. The riddle captures the thing to be guessed and describes its outstanding features in appearance, shape, nature, color, sound, origin and use. Through personification, metaphor, exaggeration, suggestion and other circuitous ways, people can guess the answer through association, reasoning and judgment according to the clues provided by riddles.

Lantern riddles are based on the literal meaning (meaning of words), so they are also called literal riddles, also called "Hu Wen" and "lantern riddles". Solve riddles on the lanterns is a unique word game in China. Solve riddles on the lanterns should focus on the meaning, sound and form of the characters on riddles. The making of riddles is to make use of the characteristics of polysemy, polysemy, stroke combination, description and pictogram of China Chinese characters, and to make riddles and answers related in word meaning or glyph by means of cognition, explanation, borrowing, dictionary transportation and word separation. Next, we will talk about two examples, and we will have a deeper understanding of their different fastening methods.

For example 1, the answer is "swallow".

The answer to the folk riddle is: a young lady is dressed in black, and when she comes, the weather will be thundered in spring, and under the eaves of her former residence, spring scenery will be added all over the sky.

The riddle is: Beijing zero.

Comparing these two riddles, folk riddles vividly describe the characteristics of swallows such as color (black) and living habits (under the eaves of spring flying). The riddle of the lantern riddle simply ignores the characteristics of the swallow itself and only sticks to the meaning of the word "swallow" "Beijing" is also called "Yanjing", and the word "Yan" is buckled here. "Zero time" is the "sub-time" in ancient timekeeping, and the word "sub" is buckled here. You see, is there a big difference in the way they buckle?

Look at the second example, and the answer is "garlic".

The mystery of the folk riddle is that seven or eight brothers sat around the pillar, and as soon as everyone broke up, their clothes were torn.

The riddle of the riddle is: two small and two small, with grass on their heads.

The former captures the characteristics of garlic, compares garlic petals to brothers, and compares garlic skins to clothes, and makes an anthropomorphic description. As for the writing of garlic, we don't even think about it, so that when we look at the mystery, the image of garlic appears in front of us. But the latter, regardless of the various characteristics of garlic itself, only focuses on the font and writing of the word "garlic". "Two small and two small" means "calculation", and then "grass grows on the head" becomes the following. Give two more examples, please analyze them yourself. What's their difference?

The first group is a set of puzzles with "peanuts" as the answer:

The answer to the folk riddle is: a hemp house with red curtains, in which lives a white fat man.

The riddle is: Son of Mulan.

The second group is a set of puzzles with "corn" as the answer:

The mystery of the folk riddle is: take off your clothes to see your hair, poke your hair to see your teeth.

The riddle is: precious rice.

(2) The range of puzzles (riddles) is different.

Except for a few crossword puzzles, the answers to folk riddles are mostly "things" or "things". Such as animals, plants, articles, utensils, human organs, nature

Phenomena, cosmic objects and so on.

Lantern riddles are riddles with literal meaning, so any word that can be expressed in words can be used as an answer. Its scope is quite extensive. From single words to poems and songs, idioms and proverbs, ancient and modern names, Chinese and foreign names, newspapers and magazines, Chinese and Western medicine, film and television dramas, various disciplines and various vocabulary names, from astronomy to geography. In contrast, the riddle is much wider than the folk riddle. And strictly speaking, there are differences in the writing of riddles. For example, the riddle of "Swallow", the riddle of folk riddle is written as "Beat an animal", and the riddle of lantern riddle should be written as "Beat an animal's name".

3 riddles have different forms of expression.

The riddles of folk riddles generally have more words, and they are often rhyming songs, among which four sentences appear more. Its language is popular, vivid and catchy, which is very suitable for oral recitation.

It's strange that a doll wears more than 300 clothes and takes off one dress every day. By the end of the year, there will be only one skin left. Answer: Calendar.

Another example is: in a small garden, flowers keep blooming for only one person to see, and the rest are just standing by. (Hit a toy) Answer: Kaleidoscope.

The riddles of lantern riddles are generally short words, and many of them are also in ready-made words. For example, poems, idioms, proverbs, allusions, names of people, places, movies and plays.

There are even riddles with letters, numbers, pictures, chess manuals and symbols. For example:

Looking up, I found it was moonlight (playing foreign place names). Answer: Yangon.

Interpretation by Wang Wen (type a word) A: 1.

Talk around (type a musical noun) answer: narrative.

Guide (to use an idiom) A: Hold on to the disabled and keep on missing.

④ The rules of guessing riddles are different.

Solve riddles on the lanterns and riddles have strict rules. For example, answers and riddles cannot have the same word (this is called "bottom-side violation"). Mystery and riddle are locked together.

Pay attention to propriety and strictness, and don't allow unnecessary gossip. However, folk riddles do not have these rules, as long as they are riddles, they can be used as reference answers. In addition, some riddles have riddles, while folk riddles have no riddles.

⑤ Different guessing objects.

Because folk riddles are easy to understand, most folk riddles are suitable for children to guess. However, riddles involve a wide range of knowledge and are difficult to guess, which requires the guessing shooter to have a certain cultural literacy. Generally suitable for adults with a certain educational level to guess and shoot. However, with the continuous improvement of people's cultural level and the continuous accumulation of life experience, riddles are gradually loved by young friends.