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Floating Wine Cup along Winding Water

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The most famous "floating wine cup" activity in ancient China shall be the one held in Lanting of Shaoxing City on March 3rd, 353 A.D. On that day, Wang Xizhi, the famous calligrapher, held a get-together with many talents by the Jiudian Pool. They each sat on the ground by the bank, with a wine cup put into the upper stretch of the water, floating and winding downstream. As the rule goes, once the cup stopped moving in front anyone, he should take it for a drink and improvise a poem.

Drinking Games

Playing drinking games is a unique way of adding fun to the drinking by Chinese. The drinking games have been existed for a long time, which might be originally invented for keeping the order of a feast, or for punishing those who failed to obey the rule of bottom-up. In a word, drinking games are set up for punishing the losers. However, its major purpose is to juice up the gathering, which may be made of guests unknown to each other. On that occasion, drinking games can be activator that wakes up the whole table.

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Arrow-Casting

Arrow-Casting

It is a casting game played during a banquet among the scholar-bureaucrats in ancient times. During the Spring and Autumn Period, one of the etiquettes for the princes to treat guests was to play...
Pass-the-Flower

Pass-the-Flower

It's a lively and intense way to find the one to be punished with wine. Guests in a banquet first need to find their seats in turn. One is needed to beat the drum at a place separated with where...
Dicing

Dicing

Dices are square cubes with a side length of about 5mm. Made of animal bones, plastics or jade, they are of white color with six faces respectively engraved with one to six round concaves....
Drawing Lots

Drawing Lots

The ancient people usually took some casual means to make decisions in front of troubled issues, that is, to get some little objects of the same shape, mark them and put them into a container for...
The Finger-Guessing Game

The Finger-Guessing Game

The finger-guessing game is a drinking game at feasts played by gestures. Two people face to face shall take out their hands at the same time and make frantic guess at each other's total fingers...