hongpao river - looks like becoming smaller and a non-event - not that the people attending the event were lesser, but the stalls were lesser and the area it covered was much smaller. but the dengmi corner still very much attended.
chinese dengmi is very presumptuous, meaning it presumes that you are familiar with a lot of things around you, ie you are "in context" with the riddle - just like 文言文 chinese; you admire how clever the old scholars were, they do not have to be explicit in what they said, everything they said, wrote was implicit, implied and summarised, using much less expressions and qualifying words. perhaps as the scholars pointed, spoken language evolved from the need to communicate, but written language was mainly for recording. the earliest recordings were done in simple systems of knots, strokes.... human, ancient or modern by nature is lazy; would like to do any task in the shortest way. so instead of tying many knots, or carving many strikes for an event, they would go for the fewest. just to record down the important points of the event, and ignore all the bells and whistles - eg, when the king won a war - just record down king won war - when, and where, against who...
but arts is difference, art was engaged to magnifying certain aspects of the event, or glorify certain aspect of the event - for the above example, the artist(s) would have drawn the battle, with details of the army, of both sides, elaborately...
here a riddle waiting to be solved : since the stone ages, human's capacity for thots and ingenuity to take control of his own life has not change much - ie ancient people were as smart as us - how come we have the impression that we are smarter than our ancestors?
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