It is true that A Dream of Red Mansions is a comprehensive book, and its content is really colorful and eye-opening. For example, many games written in it make me very interested and knowledgeable.

The games written in A Dream of Red Mansions are vulgar and elegant, and many of them are also related to banquets, which can be regarded as the ancient wine table culture. For example, what interests me most is the elegant game of literati on the wine table at that time.

So, how do you play this game? Why did Xue Baochai say he was the "ancestor of alcoholic drinks"? What does it need to learn? Let's talk about it in detail and learn to play this game.

Baochai said that the country is the "ancestor of wine orders", which naturally means that the wine orders of the country came into being early and have a long history. Indeed, according to relevant historical records, as early as the Han Dynasty in China, shooting games were everywhere in the palace, but it had nothing to do with drinking at that time.

"The Biography of Han Dong Fangshuo" records: "Try to shoot it from several families, put it under the palace urn, shoot it, and you can't win." Shuo praised himself and said,' Taste Yi, please shoot it.' Instead of divination, I said,' I think dragons have no horns, so a snake with feet is like a lizard if it doesn't guard the palace.' Above: "My God." Give ten silks. Then you can shoot other things, connect them and give them to silk. "

"Shooting" means guessing, "covering" means covering, and "shooting" means guessing what is covered under an object. The so-called "several scholars" in the above article refers to the scholars who studied the Book of Changes and performed divination at that time. Dong Fangshuo said he was "easy to learn", which means he learned easily. Yi guessed that there were lizards under the utensils according to the divination, and was rewarded by the emperor.

As can be seen from the above, shooting pure essence was a guessing game in Han Dynasty. As for its relationship with Yi, that is, how to use Yi to speculate, I am puzzled. I wonder whether the experts who study the Book of Changes today can still practice Dong Fangshuo's book, or is it just a biography of metaphysics?

Back to the topic, continue to talk about the development of the game. As a guessing game related to Yi-ology, there is no textual research on when it evolved into the wine order on the wine table, but it was popular at least in the Tang Dynasty. In two untitled poems of Li Shangyin in Tang Dynasty, there is a sentence that says, "Through the spring wine, while it warms me, I will remind you how to bet, where we roll dice in groups under the crimson lamp".

However, the shooting games in the Tang Dynasty were not exactly the same as those in the Qing Dynasty. Some scholars believe that the method of shooting bullets on the wine table in the Tang Dynasty is roughly as follows: first, hide an article or a piece of paper with words in an upside-down cup and plate, and orally read a code word for people to guess, and if you can't guess, you will be fined. This is similar to today's solve riddles on the lanterns, and we can see from its hiding before guessing that it is the same as the Han Dynasty.

By the Qing dynasty, the former artifact link had been removed from the shooting game. The reply directly draws on local materials in the dark, saying that what you see on the wine table or in the room requires improvement, and you must use allusions. The shooter looked around in the room and guessed, but he didn't say it directly. He also answered in code, and he didn't win a glass of wine three times. This is actually a riddle.

This is a pure and quintessential literati game. It is very difficult, and because there is not enough ink in my stomach and my brain is not flexible, I can't play it. Therefore, Xue Baochai said that "it is more difficult than all orders, and half of them will not be here", while Shi Xiangyun said: "I can't do this, and I am depressed and bored."

In the sixty-second chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, "Han Xiangyun is drunk with peony, Xiangling is in love with shiliu skirt", and Baoyu (and Baoqin, Xiuyan and Pinger) is written for his birthday. Everyone celebrates each other and makes a wine list on the wine table to add to the fun. One of them is the shooting incident. Here are two examples to illustrate how the game is played.

Fu and Xiang Lingshe:

Baoqin said the word "old", but Xiangling couldn't guess. Xiangyun said the word "medicine" for her. What does Baoqin want to say? How does she use allusions? How does Xiangyun guess and use allusions?

It turned out that Baoqin saw the word "Hongxiangpu" posted on the door and thought that there was a sentence in The Analects of Confucius that "I am not as good as the old nursery", so she said the word "old" and hid the word "nursery". Xiang Yun guessed that the word "medicine" and "nursery" formed the word "medicine nursery" because he thought of the canon of "medicine nursery". There is no canon in the book, but there are some poems about "medicine garden", such as Wang Weishi's "hoeing and repairing medicine garden, spreading agricultural books".

Tanchun Fu, Baochai shoots:

Tan Chun said the word "person" and Baochai said that the word "person" was too broad, so Tan Chun added the word "window". This is to cover the same thing with two words to limit the output and make the covered thing unique. Baochai answered "Whew" in one word.

Let's look at the principle. There are chickens on the wine table. The first thing Tanchun thinks of is "Chicken Man", so the word "Man" is covered with "Chicken". Baochai pointed out that the word "person" was broad, indicating that there was something related to "person" at that time. In order to define "chicken", Tan Chun thought of "chicken window", so he added the word "window".

Chicken Man refers to the person who was in charge of chickens and other animals in ancient times, telling time at dawn. The classic is Chicken Man from Tongguan, Lichun, Zhou Tong. The origin of the chicken window code comes from the book "You" in the Liu and Song Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties: "Jin, Yanzhou and Song Dynasties secretariat wanted to buy a long chicken, love it and even raise it in the window, so the chicken became a human language, and it was very wise to talk with family members. Later, he pointed to the study with a chicken window. Luo Tangyin has a poem, "The chicken window quietly opens the book at night, and the fish sill spreads the fishing line in spring." "

As soon as Baochai said the word "cooking", she thought of the classic sentence "Chicken lives in cooking" in the Book of Songs. Many people can recite the poem "Gentlemen Serve".

Later, Li Wan and Xiuyan were written. Li Wan answered the word "scoop" and the cigarette shot the word "green". Because they don't know what is on the scene, readers can't know what they are talking about and what they are using.

Finally, I wrote that Xue Baochai said "Bao" and Jia Baoyu answered "Chai". Baochai was covered with jade, and there was a clever little boy around Baoyu's neck at the scene. Jia Baoyu guessed right. As soon as he said the word "hairpin", he thought of the word "jade hairpin", which came from the poem "Knocking down the jade hairpin, the red candle is cold". Xiangyun suspected that the word "Baoyu" had no source, and Xiangling pointed out that there was a poem "There are many Baoyu in this town".

I think this boy has special significance here. The boy in this book means the boy. Xue Baochai has always been concerned about Baoyu, because the boy and the boy also said "the relationship of gold", and Jia Baoyu only said "the alliance of wood and stone", so he treated "the relationship of gold" with "breaking the red candle of Hosta"