What was the life of real ancient people like when they traveled the world in poetry and wine?

What would the bored ancients have done in ancient times? Modern people have many ways of leisure and entertainment, you can choose to go to the movies with three or five friends, travel, shopping, or stay at home to enjoy the convenience of high-tech to you. But in ancient times there was no such thing as high technology, how did they spend their free time? Now I will take you to travel to the ancient times to understand the leisure life of the ancient people.

Li Bai

There were many ancient board games, and Cao Cao's defeat at Huarong Road led to the creation of a board game called Huarong Road. The rule is to help Cao Cao escape with the least number of steps, it is its varied, never get tired of the characteristics of the game, by foreign experts called "intellectual games of the three incredible". Readers who like to read "Dream of the Red Chamber" know that Lin Daiyu had to solve the nine consecutive rings. This nine consecutive rings is also a folk game of high intelligence, often players can not be solved even after thinking hard. Similar to today's jigsaw puzzles, jigsaw puzzles became an ancient jigsaw puzzle game can be traced back to 4000 years ago in the Tang Dynasty, which is known as Tangtu was imported into foreign countries and became popular for a while. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, tangrams were widely circulated among the people.

"Happy Landlord" is probably the most familiar board game in all of China, so do you know the prototype of contemporary poker? That is the leaf play, originated in the Han Dynasty, this kind of young and old game can still shine until now, can see how popular it is. In ancient times, there was also flying chess, known as backgammon, where the movement of the pieces was determined by the number of points rolled on the dice. Rokubo is believed to be the predecessor of chess, but due to its age, the exact gameplay has been lost.

Playing chess

Football is obviously an important sporting event in today's sporting life, and many people will either cheer or beat their chests for their favorite team until late at night. Beer and fried chicken is their daily diet, jerseys and sneakers have become a must-have item for them to go out. In ancient times, there were many ball games, such as cuju, polo, and pugilism, etc. I think nowadays we are most familiar with Chinese ball games. I think now we are most familiar with the ancient Chinese ball game should be Cuju, which is also known as the earliest soccer, first recorded in the "Historical Records - Su Qin biography".

The origins of the current game of soccer are thought to have been formed in England in the 1860s, but in terms of soccer throughout human history, the ancient Chinese game of cuju is the origin of soccer. Another unique ball game is called polo, the players ride horses in two teams, holding the ball volley, *** hit a ball to hit the other team's goal for the win. Because it can train horsemanship and horse hacking techniques and favored by the army and the nobility. In ancient times, there is also a ball game known as ancient golf, that is, step playing ball. This sport did not require horseback riding and was an unusual recreational activity for the wealthy. The game as a whole is relaxing and enjoyable for young and old alike.

Playing the zither

There are many kinds of language in the world today, so do you know what the most figurative language is? That's right, it's body language. The most representative of the body movement than the dance, unlike the modern square dance, the ancient people dancing spontaneous. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the artist Ma Yuan created the "Song Treading Picture", which depicts the scenery of the outskirts of the capital city after a rainy day, and the joyful scene of peasants treading on the ridge of the field in a year of good harvest. There are a few lines of a poem on the top of the painting: "The rain has cleared the city, and the sun rises over the Imperial City. In the year of abundance, people are happy to work, and they walk on the ridge with songs." In the lower part of the painting, a white-bearded old man has just crossed a small bridge, holding a staff with his right hand, shaking his body and lifting his legs, dancing and treading a song; the two accompanying men, one clapping with both hands and treading with both feet, and the other grasping the former's belt, bowing and writhing, are all dancing together.

Today's people keep pets, the ancients get insects and ants. Ancient people love to fight crickets, fighting crickets only male, they are defending their territory or fight for the right to mate and bite each other. Cricket fighting began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. During the Qing Dynasty, the activity became more and more elaborate. There are fighting chickens, fighting quails and other similar activities, because there is a lot of money to be gained, so people are carefully bred and trained, which has produced a study of quails, crickets. Qing people Cheng Shi neighbor had written "quail spectrum", a detailed account of the whole process of raising quail.

If writing poetry can be taken as a recreational activity, then there is no doubt that the great writers of ancient China had a lot of leisure time. For example, you can feel the joy of meeting friends in the ancient poem "Birds sleep in the trees by the pool, monks knock on the door under the moon". This kind of poetic life is probably what is lacking in today's life.