What are the top 10 elegant games of the ancients and which are not bad games?
In ancient times, people were relatively poor in material and lacked basic entertainment items. They could only choose according to their own thoughts. Fun games, then many of these games are given to the field of literal meaning. Let’s take a look at the entertainment games of ancient people.
Drinking order
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Drinking order is a unique game for Chinese people to have fun while drinking. The drinking order is a unique and unique flower in the drinking culture that has been passed down to this day in ancient my country. It is the civilized and artistic behavior of persuading people to drink. It can be called a "pen meeting" during the drinking banquet.
Jiu Ling has a long history. The drinking customs during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period included the so-called "poetry for feasts" and "improvisation of songs". During the Qin and Han Dynasties, inheriting the legacy of their predecessors, literati also used couplets during the banquet, which was called "improvised singing". As time went by, the drinking order as a game came into being.
The word "Jiu Ling" was first seen in "The Biography of Jia Kui in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty": "(Jia Kui) wrote nine poems, including odes, poems, lianzhu and Jiu Ling." The Jiu Ling mentioned here, That is the wording of the order. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, many literati and scholars liked to follow the ancient customs, drinking and having fun all day long, talking about Lao Zhuang and Zhuangzi, wandering around in calligraphy, and doing things like drinking wine and drinking water. This kind of elegant drinking ceremony, which is like a white snow in spring, is not only a means of punishing people with alcohol, but also makes it extraordinary because of the participation in such elegant things as writing poems. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the drinking ceremony developed rapidly and the types became more colorful. According to records in Huangfusong's "Zuixiang Sun and Moon", at that time there were already names such as "dice order", "xiaojiu order", "change order" and "gesture order", and the game rules of wine order also had various provisions.
According to the "Jiu Ling Cong Chao" written by Yu Dunpei in the Qing Dynasty, Jiu Ling can be roughly divided into four categories, namely: Gu Ling, Ya Ling, Tong Ling, and Cao Ling. Among them, Yaling is the most popular. The Yalings that are only found in historical records include Sishuling, Huazhiling, Shiling, Riddlesling, Changziling, Allusion Ling, Yapai Ling, Name Ling, Duizi Ling, Caiyun Ling, etc. "Feihua Ling" is a type of Ya Ling.
Feihua Ling
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"Feihua Ling" was originally a drinking order in ancient China that was used to add alcohol to the drink to entertain people when drinking. However, it is much more difficult than folk drinking orders such as "Five Chiefs, Six Six Six". People without a foundation in poetry cannot play it at all, so this kind of drinking order has become the favorite of literati.
Tracing back to its roots, the word "flying flowers" comes from the sentence "Flying flowers are everywhere in the spring city" in the poem "Han Shi" by Han Hong, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The most basic Feihua Order poems must contain the word "花", and there are also strict requirements for the position where the word "花" appears.
These poems can be recited from previous poems or recited on the spot. The people are sent one after another, and when they are unable to compose or recite the poems, or make mistakes or recite the poems incorrectly, they will be ordered to drink by the wine ordering officer. For example: when a flower blooms and needs to be broken, the first word is flower; when a flower falls, it is independent, and the second word is flower; when a flower bursts into tears, the third word is flower... and so on.
In addition, there is another way to make an order: when performing the "Feihua Order", the number of characters in the poem is "花", that is, the number of people drinking in a certain order. For example, there is such a description in Ba Jin's "Home": "Shuying said, 'We will meet you again when the flowers fall', and it is time for Shuhua to have a drink."
Of course, people now learn from TV programs In addition to the word "flower", "Moon" and "Wine" have been used as keywords in the "Feihua Order" I saw; the requirements for verses are not so strict. Contestants only need to recite verses containing keywords to pass. .
Analyzing characters
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Analyzing characters is also a kind of drinking order. It is very difficult to give orders by analyzing characters, but it is more elegant and interesting. This kind of drinking order requires the analysis and interpretation of a certain word, which is well-founded and reasonable. It can be said that the skill is revealed in the game. Feng Menglong, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, recorded the story of Han Yong and Xia Xun drinking and ordering in his "An Introduction to Ancient and Modern Tan". The requirement for their order is: each person chooses a word, which word must contain "big man" and "little man", and use two proverbs to prove it.
Han Yongxian said that his order said: "There are five people in the word umbrella. The following are small people, and the upper one serves one big person. The so-called 'blessed people serve others, and unlucky people serve others'."
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Xia Xun responded and took the order: "There are five people in Shuangzi, surrounded by many villains, and one person hidden in the middle. As the saying goes, 'Don't tell people's lengths in front of others, only to believe that there are more people among them.'"
The analysis of the characters "umbrella" and "shuang" is very subtle and interesting to read. Just think, if you don’t have considerable literary skills, I’m afraid it won’t work. (Note: Xu Xuan interpreted "Shuang" as "big, with light in the gaps". The word "big" has four "X"s sandwiched between it, and some people also write the word "big" with four "people" under its arms.)
Gesture command
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Gesture command is also called "waving command". Drinking among Han people is a game for fun. The name of the wine order in the Tang Dynasty. The name can be found in the fragmentary copy of "Zuixiang Riyue" written by Huangfusong in the Tang Dynasty. The gesture order is the double shot guessing order, which is divided into the double shooting order and the guessing order. Both of them hide something and make the other party guess the shot; or one person says a word and uses the word to hide something, making the other party also use the same word. Shoot this thing. The early gameplay of the overshot game mainly involved making riddles and guessing, and using pots and bowls to hide something in advance to make people guess. The guessing game is the descendant of the "gesture order" of the Tang Dynasty.
Mingcha
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Mingzhan, also known as tea fighting, is a tea tasting competition in popular terms.
The purpose of tea tasting is naturally to compare the quality of tea leaves, and tea fighting is a word invented by the ancients for this purpose. Jianzhou in Fujian Province is a famous tea town, which contributed a lot of good tea to ancient rulers, and Dou Cha originated from this place. Every spring, after new tea is made, local tea farmers and tea drinkers engage in a tea war.
Poetry read backwards
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Poetry read backwards is a type of palindrome poem. Palindrome poems are like what we now call word games, which are poems that can be read back and forth, and can be read forward and backward to form chapters.
For example: Zhang Fen, a female poet in the Qing Dynasty, has a poem called "Poppy Beauty", titled "Regarding Sister Chen through the Plain Window". It is read as a poem in the forward direction, and it is a seven-character rhymed poem in the reverse order.
Read the word cloud in sequence:
The sound of autumn is accompanied by flying geese, and dreams are broken with broken hearts.
If you want to write a poem about your sorrow and resentment, the shadows of the stacked bamboos and parasols are moving, and the moon is late.
The building is high and I look away from you, the leaves are cold and cloudy.
The cold wind left the lamp intact, and the quiet night left the courtyard with a small cover and half-lit windows.
Read the poem backwards:
The small courtyard is half-covered by the bright window, and the lights are still there in the quiet night.
The wind is cold, the leaves are falling, and we look at the tall buildings for a long time.
The shadow of the late moon moves over the slanting bamboo, and the overlapping poems leave the sorrow of the thief and traveler.
If you want to leave your broken heart with your broken dream, the wild geese will fly and make a few sounds of autumn.
Palindromes are unique to the Chinese language. They reverse the order of Chinese characters to form new phrases, new poems, and a new artistic conception. They also need to rhyme with each other to form a re-creation, which is something that cannot be done with Western pinyin texts. It's a masterpiece when it arrives.
Across Poetry
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Across Poems first appeared in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the essence of the gameplay is to split characters to combine characters. Usually four sentences form a clutch, and each clutch can be composed of one character. If it is a single character, it is the theme of the poem; if there are multiple characters in the clutch, it needs to be read consecutively to express its meaning; the first character of each sentence and the previous sentence If the first character of " is in conflict with the previous sentence, one character or one radical can be separated. In the last two sentences, the second sentence is also in conflict with the previous sentence, and one character or one radical can be separated from the first two sentences. Combining the characters or radicals, you can get another new character.
Dui Dui Zi
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Dui Dui Zi, commonly known as Dui Ke, is the most widely used part of Chinese culture in social life from ancient times to the present. The literature and art with the strongest vitality, the most refinement and the most economical application. Dual couplets, also called antithetical couplets, are an art form with national characteristics that is loved by the Chinese people. It is a perfect combination of language art, calligraphy art and decorative art.
Poetry Bell
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Poetry Bell is a time-limited poetry word game in ancient China. It appeared in the Fujian and Fujian areas during the Jiaqing and Daoguang years. . The poem clock can only be recited into one or more couplets after one stick of incense. When the incense is used up, the bell rings, so it is called the "poetry clock". The poem is recited, and then used as core couplets to supplement each verse into a rhythmic poem, and the game ends.
Guessing lantern riddles
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"Guessing lantern riddles" is also called "playing lantern riddles". It is an activity added after the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddles were first developed from riddles. It was developed and originated from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It is a literary game full of ridicule, discipline, humor and laughter. Riddles hung on lamps for people to guess began in the Southern Song Dynasty. "Old Wulin Lamp Products" records: "Silk lanterns are used to write poems, sometimes to express ridicule, and to draw figures, hidden secrets, and old Beijing idioms to tease passers-by. Now every Lantern Festival, lantern riddles are played in various places, hoping It can make people feel happy and peaceful. Because riddles can inspire wisdom and are interesting, they are very popular among all walks of life in the process of spreading.