Tracing back to the source, the word "flying flowers" comes from the phrase "Spring City is full of flying flowers" in the poem "Cold Food" written by the Tang Dynasty poet Han Yi. The most basic flying flower poem must contain the word "flower", and it also has strict requirements on the position where the word "flower" appears. These poems can be recited by predecessors or sung on the spot. One after another, when people can't write poems, recite poems or make mistakes or recite mistakes, the wine drinker orders them to drink.
For example, flowers can be folded straight, and the first word is flowers; The fallen flower is independent, and the second word is flower; Where petals have been shed like tears, the third word is flower ... and so on.
In addition, there is another way to make the order: when making the order of flying flowers, the first word in the poem is "flower", that is, the first person drinks in a certain order. For example, there is a description in Ba Jin's "Home": "Shu Ying said,' When the flowers fall, you will meet the monarch', and it is time for Shu Hua below to eat wine."
Of course, besides "flowers", "moon" and "wine" which appeared on the stage of "Chinese Poetry Conference" have all been used as keywords; The requirements for poems are not so strict. Players can pass the test by reciting poems containing keywords.
Exploring the origin of alcoholic drinks order
The drinking order represented by "Flying Flower Order" is actually a unique entertainment game for China people when drinking.
the history of liquor order has a long history. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were so-called "singing poems at banquets" and "improvising songs". The game of throwing pots, which is transformed from shooting ceremony, is actually a kind of wine order. The resulting "throwing pot order" continued until the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
during the Qin and Han dynasties, following the legacy of predecessors, scholars also joined sentences at the dinner table, which was called "impromptu singing". After a long time of use, the drinkers' wager game was born. The word "drinkers' wager game" first appeared in the Biography of Jia Kui in the Later Han Dynasty: "(Jia Kui) tasted poetry, and there were nine articles of ode, eulogy, lianzhu and drinkers' wager game." The wine order mentioned here is the decree of the order.
During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, literati liked to attack the ancient style, drinking and having fun all day, talking about Laozi and Zhuangzi, and wandering in calligraphy and painting. This elegant wine order, like spring snow, is not only a means of punishing wine, but also remarkable because of the participation of poetry. One of the most famous "flowing water" was the Lanting Restoration Conference held in Emperor Yonghe of Jin Dynasty on March 3rd, 9th. At that time, Wang Xizhi, a "book sage", and forty-one celebrities of the dynasty sent their feelings and expressed their feelings in the Lanting in the mountains of Huiji, and the poems made by all of them were collected into a collection. Wang Xizhi was drunk and walked away, which is the famous Preface to Lanting Collection.
In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the wine orders developed by leaps and bounds, and the varieties were more colorful. According to Huangfu Song's Drunken Hometown Sun and Moon, at that time, there were names such as Dice Order, Small Liquor Order, Changing Order and Gesture Order, and the rules of the game of Liquor Order also had various provisions. Great poets such as Meng Haoran, Wang Wei, Yuan Zhen, Li Shangyin, Du Mu, Huangfu Song, etc., left us a lot of poems describing drinking rules, which added romance to the drinking culture. The folk story of Li Bai's couplet poems with He Zhizhang, Wang Zhihuan and Du Fu is a beautiful talk. A poem composed by four people is:
a full moon shines on a golden bottle, (congratulations)
the golden bottle fills the full moon, (Wang)
the full moon falls into the golden bottle, and (Du)
holds the golden bottle and swallows it. (Li)
It not only has the flavor of metrical poetry, but also can be regarded as a "thing on the table" that fits the occasion.
Famous wine orders in history
Although there are many kinds of wine orders in China's history, they can be roughly divided into two categories: elegant orders and general orders, among which elegant orders are the most popular. The elegant orders found only in historical books include four books, flowers, poems, riddles, word changes, allusions, names, words and colorful clouds.
The 4th time in A Dream of Red Mansions, Jin Yuanyang's Three Declarations of Teeth Order, describes the life scene of the upper class drinking and behaving elegantly at that time. When making an elegant order, you must be able to quote the classics, conceive on the spot, and improvise, which requires the orderer to be both literary and talented, as well as agile and witty, so it is the best project to show the drinker's talents in the wine order.
For example, it is recorded in the Song Dynasty's "Talk about Fishing in Tiaoxi" that the envoys of the Tang Dynasty went to Korea, and during the banquet, one person in Korea said, "Zhang Liang and Xiang Yu are fighting for an umbrella, and Liang said,' Cool umbrella' and Yu said' umbrella'." Tang's envoy responded extemporaneously: "Xu You and Chao Cuo are fighting for a gourd, from' oil gourd' to' vinegar gourd'." In this order, the name is right for the name, and the thing is right for the thing. The envoys of the Tang Dynasty responded appropriately, and at the same time, we can see that Koreans are familiar with China culture.
in addition, there is a kind of "one thing and two stories". Its way of doing things is: everyone says one thing, then two sentences, demanding that these two sentences have the same meaning but opposite meanings. If they fail, they will be fined a glass of wine. Such as: "candles in the wind, flow half, leave half." "Pick up a pearl in a dream, pick up one, and lose one." Flowing, staying, picking up and losing are words with antonyms, which conform to the rules of this order.
a good drinker's wager game is not only pleasing to the eye, but also can make people feel better. In the Ming Dynasty, Chen Xun, imperial academy, was demoted for offending powerful people. His colleagues saw him off, and the wine was so tipsy that it was an essential game. Chen Xun said: "There are three cars in the boom, and the rest of the bucket is inclined. The car and the car are inclined, and the stone path is far from Hanshan." A friend said to him, "There are three words to taste, and the word water becomes wine. I advise you to make a glass of wine." Chen Xun also replied: "The word" Chu "is three straight words, and the word" Black "is a black word, straight and straight, so why not three straight words?" Life is bitter when you are frustrated, but it's a comfort to be able to borrow wine and learn from others of the same trade.
However, poetry and wine order is the most literary among the elegant orders, which is a word game in which literati combine wine order with poetry. Tang legends's "Shen Tucheng" recorded a story about poetry and wine drinking: Shen Tucheng, a scholar in cloth, went to be a county captain, was blocked by snow and threw himself into a hut at night. The hospitable host scalded the wine to prepare the banquet, and Shen Tucheng raised his glass: I am tired of drinking at night, and I will not return until I am drunk. This is an elegant quotation from the Book of Songs. As soon as the voice fell, the master's daughter smiled and said, Where can you go on such a snowy night? After that, the girl took a look at Shen Tucheng and blurted out the order: the wind and rain are like gray, and the chickens are crowing. After hearing this, Shen Tucheng was amazed. He knew that the girl was using the sentence in The Book of Songs, Zheng Feng, Storm, to conceal that "I don't like seeing a gentleman, but I don't like it", and she expressed her love to him subtly and implicitly. So, Shen Tucheng proposed to the girl's parents, and they finally got married.
Needless to say, Jiuling is a unique flower in the wine culture that has been passed down from ancient China to the present, and it is a civilized and artistic behavior to persuade wine, which can be called a "pen meeting" between banquets. Naturally, for the sake of health, drinking is better than not getting drunk, but this is another theme.