When will the Tibetan dice be punched?

The punching of Tibetan dice is in the position of 1 to 6 o'clock.

As one of the traditional Tibetan folk entertainment games, the dice game plays an important role in the daily life of the Tibetan people. It is not only a competitive activity to test people's wisdom, but also an entertainment activity for fun. Because the dice game is suitable for the living environment, geographical conditions and customs of the Tibetan people, it has a wide mass and has a unique flavor in every corner of the plateau so far.

The Tibetan dice game has a long history, which can be traced back to dice. According to documents, dice appeared on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau thousands of years ago. Ancient Tibetan ancestors used dice for divination. According to Dunhuang documents and other materials, "Tibetan divination forms are very rich, including bird divination, dice divination, sheep bone divination, dream divination and water divination. Most of these divination techniques are the remains of primitive culture, and some of them were developed, created and adapted according to the original concepts after entering the class society. " During the reign of the Nine Brothers of Sang Ma, a Tibetan tribe, the Nine Brothers of Sang Ma invented dice. In Boni's classic Nine Eyes of the Cat, when Shenrab Mivo, the founder of Boni, meets his son, it is said that people play with ancient divination methods with gorgeous mats and refined dice. These documents show that dice existed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau two thousand years ago, but it was inextricably linked with the Bonism belief prevailing in Tibet at that time, making dice only a tool for divination and not a folk entertainment.