The taste of life is deeply embedded in red beans, and acacia is sent far away.

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A foot of crimson is better than dust, and the old is not as good as the new.

Acacia peach pit is hateful, and Xu Yuanlai has no one else.

A candle at the bottom of a well keeps Lang Changxing from going.

Linglong dice Anhoudou, what do you know about bone acacia?

? Last year's Lantern Festival, my young sister and I suddenly had a whim. We bought bodhi fruit and red beans and a set of carving tools from the Internet, and prepared to make red bean dice, just because of the sentence "There are red beans in linglong dice, I don't know if I missed them." That's great.

Step 1: polish the bodhi fruit and shape the embryo.

Step 2: Polishing to remove edges and corners.

Step 3: Catch up. First, according to the colored children, draw dots on six faces with a pencil.

The fourth step: drilling, which is also the most difficult step, makes the middle hollow to ensure that red beans can be seen on all sides.

Step 5: Embedding red beans.

Step 6: Wax the surface to make it look more shiny.

Step 7: Beads are used as accessories.

? Dice appeared as early as the end of the Warring States Period (widely circulated by Cao Zhi), and the dice unearthed from Qi Tomb in Qingzhou, Shandong Province have proved that the dice were not invented by Cao Zhi. ) was originally used as a tool for divination, and later evolved into a game of concubines in the harem, with dice gambling on wine or silk sachets.

? However, the truly domestic dice are 14 and 18, and the dice unearthed in the Qin tombs are authentic China native dice engraved with Chinese characters. With the cultural exchange since the Qin and Han Dynasties, many-sided dice were introduced to China, so Chinese and Western cultures combined.

? At present, the most common dice is six-sided dice, which is a regular cube with one to six holes (or numbers) on it, and the sum of the opposite numbers must be seven.

? At that time, the dots on the dice were all painted black, and it was not until the Tang Dynasty that red strokes were added. Legend has it that Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei were throwing dice in the harem and were about to lose. Only four o'clock can save the defeat. One of them was still spinning like this, and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty was so anxious that he even shouted "4! 4! "It is 4 o'clock after the dust settles. As soon as Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was happy, Gao Lishi announced that the dice could be painted red, and people usually painted red at one o'clock and four o'clock.

? Later scholars embedded red beans in dice instead of lacquer red, which also had a deeper meaning. Red beans, also known as acacia, are mostly made of bones, which means acacia with dice.