What is the historical origin of "scissors, stone and cloth"?

According to Xie's "Five Miscellaneous Articles of Ming Dynasty", the tradition of "stone scissors and cloth" can be traced back to the gesture order of Han Dynasty and gradually developed into today's "stone scissors and cloth" game. China and South Korea are generally called "rock scissors cloth", while the Japanese call it "rock scissors cloth". Countries such as Britain and the United States call it "rock! Paper! Scissors! " Or "Ro! Zhan! Bo! " .

Li Rihua's Notes on Liuyanzhai in the Ming Dynasty said: "vulgar drinking, fighting with finger flexion and extension, is called fist throwing, also known as finger throwing." In Ming and Qing novels, there are many records. In the sixty-third chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, it was said, "If you share the wine with others, guessing boxing is better than ditty." The 109th chapter of the Water Margin wrote: "Guessing fists means eating wine at a big bowl price." Zhao Yi, a poet in A Qing, wrote a poem, "Always punching the thumb array and signing riddles".

play

These three basic gestures (rock, scissors, cloth from left to right) can win one of the other two.

rule

The two players clenched their fists first, and then one or both of them read the password together. When they sang the last syllable, the two contestants showed their favorite gestures ("stone", "scissors" or "cloth").