宋代,在灯谜发展史上占着重要的一页,“灯谜”这个名称就产生在那时。我国古代早有元宵赏灯的习俗,到了南北两宋尤为盛行。宋朝的统治者,为了粉饰太平,下令民间在农历正月十三至十八日大放花灯,在都城金吾不禁,任人观赏。因而有“好事者”就别出心裁地“以绢灯剪写诗词,时寓讥笑,及画人物,藏头隐语,及旧京诨语,戏弄行人”(见宋代周密《武林旧事》)。从此,“灯”与“谜”便 Song Dynasty, in the history of the development of riddles an important page, “riddles ” the name was born at that time. In ancient China, the customs of the Lantern Festival lanterns were praised as early as the north and south. In order to whitewash peace, the rulers of the Song Dynasty ordered civilians to spend large lanterns on the 13th to the 18th day of the first lunar month and could not help but watch at the Jincheng in the capital. Therefore, there are “good people ” ingenuity to “cut the poetry with a silk lantern, when ridiculed, and painting characters, hidden headwords, and old Beijing language, teasing pedestrians ” (see the Song Dynasty “Wulin old things” ). Since then, “light ” and “mystery ” will be