The ancients painted boxing: five crowns and eight horses, what do you mean?

China's culture is profound, and this sentence is not just talk. How can I put it? In our country, even eating and drinking have a lot of attention and culture, that is, people often say wine table culture.

We can see in many film and television works that when the ancients drank, they always liked to draw fists, which looked like rivers and lakes. When they punch their fists, they always shout things that sound like slogans, such as "Five Top Scholars", "Six Six Shun" and "Eight Horses". What do these slogans mean? What are they used to represent?

According to historical records, the earliest drinking order in China appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period more than 2,000 years ago. At that time, this kind of behavior was not called drinkers' wager game, but a kind of "impromptu song". When people are drinking, they recite poems, which is somewhat similar to the later "Qushui". This is actually the original form of the wine game. Yes, the original alcoholic drinks game is still very popular.

The early drinkers' drinking order was a drinker's drinking order, and strokes were strokes, which were not the same. Drinking is an elegant thing for literati, and boxing is a fun game in the workshop. Boxing first appeared in the Han Dynasty, when boxing was only used for entertainment.

In the Western Jin Dynasty, fencing was not just a simple entertainment. Since the Western Jin Dynasty, there has been a saying of "making nine". When Shi Chong was picking poems at the banquet, he saw a sentence "If you can't do it, you will be fined three glasses of wine". Later, this sentence somehow became "three cups of wine."

Interestingly, the appearance of the drinker's wager game was not to persuade people to drink, but to supervise people not to drink too much. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, officials like Li Zhijian appeared. They are law enforcers on the wine table, but there is not much criticism. What needs to be done is to supervise people to drink less.

Moreover, the liquor order in those days was not like today. From a distance, it looks like a group of street hooligans. In those days, alcohol drinking was a very elegant thing. At that time, many wine orders became later epigrams, such as "Four Books Orders" and "Fu Orders". It can be seen that in the early years, the wine order was very elegant.

There are more than "five champions" in the wine order. In ancient times, wine orders were divided into four forms. They are Guling, Yaling, your legend and Beiling.

Ancient orders generally refer to all early drinking orders. For example, the "improvisation" mentioned earlier is one of the ancient orders. In addition, there are many forms such as "improvisation" and "palindrome repetition". It is recorded in Bitan that Su Dongpo, Qin Shaoyou and others had a wonderful order when they visited Master Fo Yin.

Yaling is one of the most elegant and literary wine lists. The so-called Yaling "must quote classics, sound and rhyme, and conceive a feast." More famously, in A Dream of Red Mansions, Jia Baoyu once told the story of "daughter" with the words of "sadness and joy". At that time, he drank a glass of wine and said a wine sequence that was a perfect fit for the theme.

Generally, ordering is vulgar, usually with the help of dice and other tools, which is somewhat similar to today's dice game. When drinking, officials will shake out two dice. The impromptu needs to guess the number of dice. If he guesses wrong, give him a drink. If he is right, he will be drunk by the authorities. Or, I will play some games that refer to the five senses while drinking, and if I make mistakes, I will also make free throws. These games are very close to today.

The last wine order is ascending. Toast is a bit like monopoly and other games. At that time, people would prepare some "toasts" when drinking, which stated the conditions of drinking, such as "have a drink" and "have a drink". This kind of wine was very interesting and popular at that time.

What are the top five, eight horses, top five and eight horses? These are all "sign language", which can be regarded as a game in general order. When drinking, people will make their fists to add fun. For example, if they shout "eight horses" and then stretch out three fingers, then if the other party doesn't give five fingers, if this person shouts "five champions" and then stretches out two fingers, although he doesn't add up to the number of "eight horses", the other party has already added "five champions" instead. In this case, the latter doesn't have to drink, but the former calls "eight horses".

Of course, sometimes people do bad things, such as shouting "eight horses" in their mouths, but only sticking out a finger. In this case, the other party can't stretch out "seven fingers" and is likely to lose.

This ugly move is despised by people, but it may also correspond to the "sign language" that the latter shouted. If he shouted "good brother" and held out a finger at the same time, he won. This kind of play seems complicated, but it is still very interesting to play.

Sign language such as "Five Top Scholars" and "Eight Horses" can actually be simply understood as the numbers "Five" and "Eight". The ancients liked to bring a little beauty to everything, even playing games.

For example, "two brothers are good" means that two people have a good relationship, and "five champions" means that the champion is the first. Winning the championship is a good moral, and "66 Shun" goes without saying. Eight horses are also a symbol of beauty. Why else would there be eight horses?

The names of these numbers vary from place to place. For example, some places are called "one dragon, two brothers are good, three horses", some places are called "one mind is quiet, Erlang Mountain, three rings and three rings", and some places are called "one heart is respectful, one table is good, and three wishes".

Summary: In the process of interpreting "Five Champions" and "Eight Horses", it is not difficult to see that the wine table culture in China has a long history. But in ancient times, it was really a culture. Do you think, whether it's a gathering of friends or entertaining guests, write a poem at the banquet, and maybe a few people can come and meet for a while. What a beautiful scenery.

When you look through history, you will find that the ancients really seem to be like this. The gathering of ancient literati did nothing more than sing poems in pairs and talk about state affairs, leaving countless anecdotes, such as the widely circulated Qushui.