What are the entertainment methods of ancient banquets? What's a pot-smashing, drinking and shooting?

Throw pots, guess fists, shoot, play cards, drink, recite poems, roll dice, etc.

First of all, let's talk about tossing the pot, which is a game that ancient people often play on the wine table. Ancient people liked archery, but the place to eat was generally not that big, so it was impolite for everyone to come with an arrow on their back. So archery is simple and simplified. Everyone throws bamboo sticks or copper coins into a small bottle, more than anyone else. Sometimes, in order to increase the difficulty, they even throw blind shots with cloth or throw copper coins with their backs to small bottles.

Guessing boxing is similar to practicing boxing on the wine table now. Say a number for every gesture. If two people make the same gesture, the number of people who count is equal to the sum of the gestures, that is the winner and the loser drinks. Just like mahjong now, this kind of tooth card was often played on ancient wine tables. When rolling dice, the big one wins and the small one drinks.

Shooting is similar to guessing which hand has something now. It is divided into several groups, hiding something under one thing and guessing where the rest are. To put it more bluntly, the wine list is now a truth or dare. People first write down drinking or doing something on many signs, and then everyone draws lots and executes according to what is written on the signs. Poetry-chanting is an entertainment method chosen by ancient literati gathering places. Many famous poems we recited today were inspired by drunkenness.

Look at what people in ancient times did. It's no different from what we did today. Have you ever boxed with your friends while drinking? Have you ever played truth or dare together? Have you ever thrown dice together? It can be seen that there are not many things that can be done on the wine table, and almost all of them have been handed down from ancient times to the present, which shows how profound the wisdom of the ancients is.