Is the dice read shai or tou?

Read the circle on the dice. The traditional folk entertainment in China is dustpan throwing.

As early as the Warring States Period. Usually used as props for table games, 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. China's dice are used to being painted red at one and four o'clock. Dice is a random number generator, which is easy to make and obtain.

Dice is one of the indispensable tools for many recreational activities, such as playing mahjong and Pai Jiu. Dice here refers to gambling that depends solely on dice to decide whether to win or lose. Usually used to gamble on size. In sic bo, idle people bet on bookmakers. Before each bet, the dealer puts three dice in a covered vessel and shakes them. When the idlers have finished betting, the dealer opens the utensils and gives out prizes.

Because the most common bet is to buy the size of the dice (a total of 3 to 10 is called small, 1 1 8 is called big, except those around the dice), it is often called a contest.

Historical sources:

According to legend, the inventor of dice was Cao Zhi, a writer in the Three Kingdoms period. Originally used as a tool for divination, it later evolved into a game of concubines in the harem, betting on wine or silk sachets with dice points. 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.

However, according to textual research, the dice unearthed from Qi Tomb in Qingzhou, Shandong Province were not invented by Cao Zhi. Dice, as one of the six major operas in China, is regarded as the ancestor of China's operas, and it was popular as early as the late Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.