"Cooking sheep and slaughtering cattle and having fun, you will have to drink three hundred cups", pour a pot of fine wine, drink freely with three or five confidants and friends, and talk about wine, why not be comfortable? In ancient times, people would also play some games during feasts, the most elegant of which was the "order to perform wine". One person is elected as the magistrate, the others are ordered to take turns speaking poetry, and those who violate the order or fail the challenge will be fined alcohol. The ancient literati's liquor order was an elegant rhyme and an opportunity to show their talents.
The history of the liquor order
Xing ling, also known as xing liquor order, is a kind of entertainment game on the ancient banquet in China, with a very long history, and is deeply loved by the literati and inkers of all generations.
The production of liquor orders can be traced back to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. There is an allusion to the idiom of "painting snakes and adding feet": "Warring States Policy Qi Ce II" Yun II "Chu has a shrine, give him a house of wine." The shepherds say: 'If a few people drink enough, one person has more than enough to drink; please draw the land as a snake, and the first to drink."' 'A man whose serpent is the first to become, and who draws wine and drinks from it; he draws a serpent in his left hand and draws a snake in his right hand, saying, 'I can be among them.' 'Unfinished, the serpent of one man became, and the co-conspirator said: 'There is no foot, and the son can be enough!' 'Then drink his wine.' For the snake-footed, he will die of his wine. "This includes the liquor order.
The "Warring States Policy" was compiled by the Western Han Dynasty based on the words and deeds of the relevant lobbyists and various pamphlets, so the appearance of the liquor order has a history of more than 2100 years.
The real prosperity of the liquor order was in the Tang Dynasty, because of the rule of Zhenguan, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, the economy was unprecedentedly prosperous, and the various large-scale liquor orders popular in later generations were almost all formed in the Tang Dynasty. Then there are many types of liquor orders that have been handed down, and today we will talk about some of the more famous ways to play:
1. Lottery
Lottery throwers are a type of game that uses props to play. The lottery refers to the stick that is put into the bamboo tube with a password written in advance, called the order sign. Participants shake the bamboo tube, draw a stick, and decide the number of cups, how, etc. to drink according to the instructions. The current adventure game can be said to be an extension of this game. With its unknown nature and wide range of diversity, it can quickly pull in the distance to drive the atmosphere of the wine table.
2. Punch
This is the most unconstrained play of venue, number of people, props, through different gestures or the number of fingers, to represent different meanings, and then according to the rules to determine the winner and loser and drinking methods. Once played, you come and go very lively, the most popular in the folk, and easy to understand. Nowadays, the public has gradually derived countless kinds of gameplay, such as "brothers are good, five leaders, six six six, etc.", which is the most popular way of playing the people.
3. Curving water flowing
This game is generally a game that was liked to be played among ancient literati. In the third month of the lunar calendar every year, after people hold the ceremony, they will sit around the curved sides of the small river, put the wine glass into the water and go down the river, and when they reach whoever comes, they will drink the wine in the cup, with the intention of eliminating diseases and disasters and avoiding bad luck. Praying for blessings and eliminating disasters while celebrating and entertaining was the most popular way to play in the Western Zhou Dynasty, but it is not very popular in modern times.
4. Flying Flower Order
The ancient Flying Flower Order required that the verses that were produced should be consistent with the verses that were recited, and that the prescribed position of the words appeared also had strict requirements. These poems can be recited from previous generations or can be presented on the spot.
Poems and words can be used when flying flowers, and songs can also be used, but the selected sentences generally do not exceed seven words. Now the flying flower order is no longer a special game for the wine table, such as the "poetry conference" and other cultural programs have related competitions, if there is nothing at home, you can also call out the mobile phone assistant in the mobile phone, say the flying flower order, you can man-machine pk! (Works on most phones)
5. Closed Moon Order
The closing order is that everyone says a poem without the word "moon" in order, but this poem must describe the moon, such as "calling as a white jade disk".
Similarly, there is "three hundred cups of drinking", which is written to drink wine, but there is no word "wine" in the sentence, which is a prohibition against alcohol.
(In fact, it is the difficult version of the Flying Flower Order, there are not many people who know this wine order, you can organize the game, it is recommended to reserve some relevant poems before playing in the wine bureau, so that you can "amaze" the whole audience when playing.) ）
6. Name Order
The name order is when everyone takes turns to say a poem, and at least one word in the poem must be the surname of the player present (sometimes for simplicity, it can also be a name).
For example, if someone here is surnamed Li, we can say "Spring Wind Peach and Plum Blossom Day". "Rong Hua is like a peach and plum". "Peach and Plum Spring Wind A Glass of Wine", "Li Du's Poetry Ten Thousand Oral Transmissions" and so on.
7. Dish name order
The dish name order is very simple, that is, everyone takes turns to say a poem, and this verse must contain the name of the dish or a certain word on the current table.
For example, "Hugh will sing yellow chicken with white hair" (chicken), "maple flower flowing water mandarin fish fat" (fish), "Zhumen wine meat smell" (meat) and so on.
If there are cauliflowers on the table, then all poems with the word "flower" will be OK, if there is wine on the table, all poems with "wine" will be OK, if there are soybeans on the table. If there is kelp, then all poems with "yellow" and "sea" learning are also OK.
There are many wine and banquet customs that have continued from ancient times to the present, but it has to be said that with the passage of time, there are really many good traditional customs that have been forgotten, and how many people know how to shoot arrows? How many people can improvise a poem in the middle of a meandering stream? And drinking is a very interesting thing, if you can integrate these interesting games left by the ancients, you will definitely reap the multiplied effect, so the next party to arrange the order to drink! Make every drinking party a little more fun!
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