Happy Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival or the Spring Lantern Festival is a Chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar Chinese calendar. Usually falling in February or early March on the Gregorian Calendar, it marks the final day of the traditional Chinese New Year celebrations. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, it had become a festival with great significance. During the Lantern Festival, children go out at night carrying paper lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns. We'd like to share you few wonderfull riddles here. It is perfect to show them on a chocolate advent calendar.

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Riddle 1：

What 5-letter word has 6 left when you take 2 letters away

Key: Sixth.

Riddle 2：

A big indian and a little indian are walking down the street. The little indian is the son of the big indian, but the big indian is not the father of the little indian. How is this possible?

Key: The big indian is the mother of the little indian. 

Riddle 3：

What has four eyes but cannot see?

Key: mississippi (a place)

Riddle 4：

What's the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space; the beginning of end, and the end of every place.

Key: the letter "e".

Make your Leantern Festival chocolate advent calendar.

Riddle 5：

What fruit is never found singly?

Key: pear (similar pronunciation to pair)

Riddle 6：

When can you get water with a net?

Key: when water is turned into ice.

Riddle 7：

What goes on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, and on three in the evening?

Key: People. They crawled when they were babies and walked with two legs before they had to rely on a crutch in old age.

Riddle 8：

What do we get if we cross a woodpecker with a homing pigeon ?

Key: A bird that knocks on the door when delivering messages.

Riddle 9：

What must you do before you return a book to the library?

Key: Borrow the book from library.

Riddle 10：

How many sides does a cricle bave?

Key: two. inside and outside.