行酒令英文介绍

• It is literally translated as “practising wine order”. • In this game, someone is made the commander(行令官) and others must obey his orders at the table, either to compose a poem or to do some other things. • The person who fails to carry out the order is penalized to drink.
Rules of drinking games
• 1.The rules of drinking are as strict as the rules of war.（酒令如军令。 ） • 2.The M.C. (master of ceremonies )
令官（酒令中，凡有违规的，由令官决定处罚饮酒多少）。
Ming and Qing Dynastry(明清时期)
• The period of prosperity of drinking is Qing Dynasty,the quantity of the achievements of drinking is large.
（清代是酒令的繁荣时期,酒令作品层次不穷。）
Drinking Games
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History of drinking games
Several lines of drinking games
Drinking games
• a popular pastime with a long tradition in China. • adding fun to the drinking • to juice up the gathering（heighten the drinking atmosphere）
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Threesomes with the dominoes
（骨牌令）
• Faithful：“On my left the bright blue sky.”（左边是张天） • Grandmother Jia：“The Lord looks down from heaven on high.”（头上有青天） • Faithful：“Five and six together meet.”（当中是个五和六） • Grandmother Jia：“By Six Bay Bridge the flowers smell sweet.”（六桥梅花香彻骨） • Faithful：“Leaves six and ace upon the right.”
• Two people sit at the same table. • Using one hand, they simultaneously stretch out fingers and shout out a number between one and 10. • If a player guesses right,he/she wins. The loser then has to take a drink. • If both players guess right or if both guess wrong, the game continues.
The Six Dynasties Period(魏晋南北朝)
• Winding Creek and Floating Cups（曲水流觞）
Tang Dynastry(唐朝)
• be played in the form of verbal expressions accompanied by body（曲子歌舞） • gave rise to a large number of rhymed verses（酒令著辞） • tune promoted the literary practice of writing verses to pretuned music
（剩 了一张六合么）
• Grandmother Jia：“The red sun in the sky so bright.”
(一轮红日出云霄)
• Faithful： “A shock-headed devil with hair like tow.”
(凑成却是个‘蓬头 鬼)
• Grandmother Jia：“Zhong Kui, let me go!”
Seven（逢七过）
• People sitting, in succession, say numbers. • The first player says "one,” the second says “two,” and so on. • The person who is supposed to say “seven” must move directly to “eight.” • The players go on counting, avoiding the number “seven,” all of its multiples (14, 21 etc.) and all the numbers including “seven,”( 17, 27, 37 etc.) • The person who accidentally says a forbidden number has to be punished by taking a drink.
• 'two kind brothers'（哥俩好） • 'making a fortune in four seasons'（四季发财）
Gong Show（击鼓传花）
• With one person beating a drum or gong, the others sitting around the table will quickly pass a flower from one to another. • When the drummer stops, whoever has the flower will drink and even give a simple performance according to the rules.
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3.Drink according to the etiquette.（依例饮酒。） 4.Justice for all.（行令时一律平等。） 5.Do exactly as M.C. say.（酒令不可违。） 6.No strict order.（不行苛令。）
History of drinking games
• Two categories - general game and literal game.
（两类——通令和雅令。）
Several lines of drinking games
Winding Creek and Floating Cups
• “There were spectacular mountains and magnificent peaks, flourishing forest and tall bamboos, and there, reflecting the scenery standing on the bank sides, were limpid rivulet with rapid stream, which was a channel for spirit cups floating downwards. We sat by the watersபைடு நூலகம்de in order, drinking and chanting.”
（这鬼抱住钟馗腿）
Arrow-Casting（投壶）
• Those unable to play archery indeed would find a substitute for the game, that is, to cast arrows into a flagon. • As the rule goes, the one who got the most hits was the winner while the loser would be made to drink.
Dicing（骰子）
• Dice are rolled and contestants have to guess the number of spots. • Those who make an incorrect guess pay a forfeit by drinking a cup.
Finger Guessing(Cai Quan)
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