Country is the earliest drinking game. According to relevant historical records, there were social events in the Three Kingdoms, namely, Wei, Guanju, Jin and Guo Pu. In two untitled poems by Li Yishan of Li Shangyin in the 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". Shen Fu's "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" in the Qing Dynasty recorded a boudoir story, including the sentence "If you don't drink well, three cups are better, and you should shoot the lid", and the sentence "If you don't light your bow, wait for the moon to drink quickly, and shoot the lid as an order". Shoot, shoot, guess; Cover, cover, hide. In the early shooting game, the main trick was to play riddles and hide things in advance with pots and bowls for people to guess. These two tricks are relatively direct. Later, on this basis, a shooting game with indirect twists and turns in language and character form came into being. Its method is to use conjunctions to hide things and make people guess. If the shooter can't guess or guess wrong, the repeater misjudges the shooter's guess and will be fined. Qing Yu Payton's "Nine Rings of Chao Gu Order" said: "However, the so-called shooting and carving in teahouses today are completely different from this. The method is engraved on the top and covered on the bottom. If the words' wine',' spring' and' pulp' are set, people will shoot them, covering spring wine and wine pulp, and the shooter will know each other in a word. " This basically explains the principle of playing drinking games. This is the same as the drinking order described in the sixty-second chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions. Respondents first use poems, idioms and allusions to cover up something, and shooters guess, and then use another poem, idiom and allusions to uncover the mystery. For example, after Baochai and Tanchun were right, Tanchun covered the word "person", Baochai said that the word "person" was very broad, and Tanchun covered the word "window" twice. When Baochai saw a chicken on the table, she shot the word "chicken window" and "chicken man", that is, the word "chicken", so she shot the word "Geng". When Tanchun heard that he was filming, he used the classic "A chicken was born in a field". They smiled and understood each other, and each took a sip of the door cup. For another example, after Li Wan and Xiuyan were paired up, Li Wan stamped the word "gourd ladle", almost using the code word "gourd ladle hanging on the wall", that is, the stamped word "gourd ladle". Xiuyan said the word "green" when filming, and almost used the word "sorrow" to make them understand each other and have a drink.
The wine orders and rules of the Tang Dynasty inherited the ancient customs, but the organizational form was more complete. There is no limit to the number of participants, and the conventional method still takes 20 people as a group. Each group has a prison order, and the order of drinking according to the order should be observed. According to the custom that the county magistrate named "Mingfu" at that time, this person was named "Mingfu" (quoted from Zhao Yanwei's "Yun Lu Man Chao", Volume 2).
In addition, as an ancient competitive game on the wine table, there is a way to play, that is, each person takes a certain number of arrow shafts, such as three or five, and throws them into a small bottle or similar container not far away, and calculates the winning or losing according to the number of shots. Similar to today's shooting. One of the reasons why the ancients used arrows to play games was that the education of ancient literati was both civil and military, and bow, horse, fist and sword were compulsory courses.