Study Of Ancient Chinese Investment Pot Game

Touhu is a popular competitive shooting game combining with drinking wine in ancient China, which is an important category of ancient game culture. To research on the ancient Touhu game will not only help us to know the ancient game culture, but also to understand the whole ancient Chinese culture deeply. This paper makes clear the form, rules and joining people of Touhu game in different historical times from pre-Qin to Ming-Qing Dynasty, at the same time uses the theory of cultural anthropology to study the function and value of Touhu, and discusses its recurrence meaning in modern society. The paper is divided into several parts as following:The first part is the development situation of Touhu game in each historical period. It is the etiquette stage of Touhu in the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period, which is also the initial phase of the game. Classicists in ancient believe that Touhu is transformed by shoot courtesy, and the reason should be the cultural background of collapse of the ritual and the distribution of literary and military in the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period. Touhu in that period pays great attention to the etiquette, it has special and strict tools, courtesy order, etiquette and steps, but which are not in conflict with the essence of Touhu game.From Han Dynasty to Sui-Tang and Five Dynasties, the entertainment of Touhu has become prominent gradually. In the late Warring State period, Touhu has revealed the trend of breakthrough the limitation of etiquette. While in Han Dynasty to Sui-Tang and Five Dynasties, the game breaks down the barriers of etiquette by degrees and its entertainment becomes strong little by little. During this age, the rules and tools of Touhu have big differences compared with previous dynasties, and finally it casts off the shell of etiquette, becomes a game form with strong competition and entertainment, and is widely welcomed. Touhu also begins to spread outside with China and the world cultural exchange, introduced into Korean Peninsula and Japan.It is the various and accessible stage of Touhu game in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, which also could be called the heyday. On the one hand, the entertainment continually strengthens with variety of forms;On the other hand, Touhu becomes more accessible and is not only beloved by Scholar-officials, but enters in ordinary people's life as a popular game. Meanwhile, Scholar-officials deeply influenced by Neo-confucianism may feel the lost of morality spirit or because of other motives, they advocate ancient Touhu spontaneously, which consists of another feature of that time.The second part is to study the cultural function of Touhu game. As a game being popular in a very long time, the effect of Touhu is not only providing entertainment way for ancient people, but lays on its cultural and social meaning. In ancient society, Touhu takes responsibility of teaching, regarded as an auxiliary teaching method and an approach of self moral cultivation. Touhu in different ages reflects temporal political situation, which definitely gives another way to research Chinese ancient history. The cultural spirit contained by Touhu lets itself become a media of cultural inheritance and spread.The third part is the recurrence of Touhu in modern age. Recently with the promotion of traditional culture, Touhu gradually returned to people's vision. But modern people only have form knowledge on Touhu and haven't realized the cultural meaning in this game. Therefore, the modern recurrence of Touhu will not only brings delight in traditional culture of identity, but brings a reflection to modern games.