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two famous ¡§enigmatic language¡¨ records, which were the phases
that Chun Yu Kun wanted to convince Qi Wei King ¡§there is
a big bird resting in king¡¦s garden, it has not flown and
it also hasn¡¦t cried for three years¡¨, also Shao Ru Zi tried
to admonish Wu King fighting Jing ¡§The mantis stalks the cicada,
unaware of the oriole behind¡¨. The first one used analogy
method and the latter one also used movement. They all speak
out of meaning, and really mean something, there were really
typical ¡§enigmatic language¡¨
In these two stories, we could see some buffoonery meaning.
In fact, ¡§enigmatic language¡¨ was the trick that ¡§comedians¡¨
used to abolish tedium and made jokes to please liege lord
in early Qin and Han dynasty, it was just one kind of entertainments
or games. However, someone liked Chun Yu Kun and Shao Ru
Zi who used those kinds of traceless and buffooning talk
to mock and remonstrate against monarch skillfully, had
showed great results. Therefore, literati and officialdom
started to pay attention on ¡§enigmatic language¡¨. Like Dong
Fang Shao in HanWu monarch period, he was one of famous
scholars and ¡§implication experts¡¨. <Wen Xiao Diao Long-Xie
Yin> was written by Liu Xie had said: ¡§Since Wei dynasty,
not comedians, but gentlemen liked to use implied words
and riddles¡¨. Since then ¡§riddle¡¨ appeared formally, and
became a new literature game for scholars.
According to Liu Xie¡¦s explanation, ¡§riddle¡¨ was ¡§resound
its words, confused people¡¨. The word ¡§confuse¡¨ was intentionally
to confuse people with words various usage. It could use
words to make riddles was one of characteristics in Chinese
Han words. In the ¡§Cao E Bei Mi¡¨ was written by Cai Zi,
Eight words ¡§huang juan you fu wai son ji jiu (¶À¸h¥®°ü¥~®]÷ñ¦Ý)¡¨
had implied four words ¡§jue miao hao ci(µ´§®¦nÃã)¡¨. ¡§huang juan¡¨
was one kind of colors (colored silk); ¡§you fu¡¨ meant teenage
girl (young girl); ¡§wai son¡¨ meant daughter¡¦s son (grandson);
¡§ji jiu¡¨ meant spicy (ji was one kind of spice plants, it
was often quashed in stone mortar before eating, jiu in
this sentence meant ji jiu and used to take spices, combined
spices as part of phase ¡V ancient time writing). It was
fully used the shape of han characters ¡V ¡§separated-combined
character¡¨ (words could be separated and also could be combined),
and it was first developed skill in riddle language.
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