How to play the game of drums and flowers?

Drumming game rules are as follows:

Rules are a few people or dozens of people sitting in a circle, and then a person holding a flower in his hand or other small objects, the other person blindfolded or back to hit the drums (not necessarily drums, as long as it is some of the items that can be issued sound can be), the drums sound when the flower, drums stop, the flower! When the drum stops, the flower will be passed to whoever has the hands, who will have to perform a program, any program can be, such as: singing, dancing and so on. Drumming and passing flowers is a Chinese folk game, also known as passing colored balls, popular throughout China.

Origin and History

According to the literature, Drumming is a traditional Chinese folk game that is played at wine banquets in ancient times, and it is a kind of wine order, also known as "Drumming to Promote the Flower", which appeared in the Tang Dynasty. The book "Capricorn Drum Records" of the Tang Dynasty mentioned that Li Longji was good at drumming, and after he beat the drum for a song, the willow branches which had not sprouted at first spat out green color. This allusion was first known as "beating the drum to urge the flowers", but later it was used as a drinking order and changed to "beating the drum to pass the flowers".

Du Mu's poem "The Night Banquet at Yanglanpu", which includes the phrase "the ball comes to the fragrant sleeve vaguely warm, and the wine bumps the gin cups to flood the heart with colorful light", gives an idea of what it was like to play the drums and pass the flowers around at the Tang Dynasty banquets. Fan Chengda of the Song Dynasty wrote in his poem "Remembering the Festival in Wuzhong", "The wine shop first repeated the drums, and the lantern market threw in agar." The 54th episode of Dream of the Red Chamber also describes the passing of flowers by drums. In order to listen to the jokes told by Jamie and Phoenix, the people deliberately told the female drummer to stop playing the drums.

There is another kind of game similar to the drumming game, called goblet. People sit on the shore in turn, in the water upstream placed a wine cup, let it flow down, the wine cup stops in front of whoever is going to drink and write a poem.