Song people like to pounce, this pounce, also known as gambling, is not purely to use gambling equipment to gamble money, but to use items as the color head**.

And the Northern Song Dynasty's Guan Pu, the origin is still the government because of the New Year in order to lively the festive atmosphere and hold all kinds of lottery activities, "Tokyo Menghualu" volume six "New Year" contains, the Northern Song Dynasty government prohibits gambling, but there are exceptions in the year, that is, "the first month of the year, Kaifeng put Guan Pong for three days." ”

That is, during the New Year's Festival, the alleys and alleys of the government will let people bet "on food, animals, fruits, charcoal, etc.", "or with dozens of wat silver (the silver cake in the shape of a wat plate is also a silver judgment), or with a music woman (with a beautiful woman as a prize) as a throw, and other things are the same." According to the record of "Tokyo Menghualu", at this time, the bustling streets of Kaifeng Prefecture "are all set up with colorful sheds, laying out crown combs, pearl emeralds, head faces, clothes, flowers, collar wipes, boots and shoes, and playing well. There are dance halls and song halls, and cars and horses gallop. In the evening, the women of the noble family indulged in gambling, entered the market to watch, and entered the market store to drink and feast, and became accustomed to it, and did not laugh at each other. ”

In other words, merchants will set up colorful sheds in the streets, and put luxury goods such as "crown combs, pearls, heads, and clothes" that women like, so as to attract female customers to go to Guanpu.

The two sides of the pounce agree on the price, throw the copper coin in the clay pot or underground, and determine the winner or loser according to the positive and negative sides of the money, and the winner can fold the money or take the pounced items for free. The gambling method is also relatively simple, the merchant opens a bet amount and winning conditions equivalent to the price of the commodity, the most common way to stipulate the winning conditions is to throw a group of copper coins to get a specific combination, the copper coin throwing result is said to be "word" on the front, the back is said to be "pure", and at the same time to throw a group of copper coins are all on the back is said to be "pure", six are pure "six pure", ten are pure "ten pure", and so on; If the buyer wins, the bet is withdrawn and the item is free, otherwise the bet goes to the seller.

For example, a pot of fine wine may be worth a thousand yuan, which is too luxurious for the poor, but it doesn't matter, you only need to pay 9 yuan, and you can "drink for nothing" as long as you can vote for "seven purities". In this way, as long as the ratio is large enough, no dream of luxury and wealth is impossible to achieve, and in fact, there are many people who win BMW incense cars, good land mansions, and kabuki beauties with a large percentage of guanpu.

Although the probability of winning is very low, it is no less likely than buying a lottery ticket to win the jackpot today.

Therefore, this pass began in the Xining period of Shenzong, and the wind gradually became blazing, so that "from the chariot and horse, the house, the singing boy, the dancing girl and the utensils and food, all of them can be pounced." There are those who fight thirty wat with one wat. Even the chariots and horses, the houses, the singers, and the dancing girls all pounced on them at a price. ”

"Thirty wat with one wat pounce" is that the odds of one pounce can be as high as one to thirty. In addition to small pieces such as clothing and good play, expensive items such as carriages and horses, houses and even singers and dancers were all thrown out as gambling money, showing the extravagance of the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Having said that, this "shilang" is also one of the more popular ways to close the flutter at this time.

The so-called Xilang, that is, the first brother who is about to be the groom, at this time, the organizer of Guan Pu is also the dealer, who will invite him to hold a "budding" ceremony in the Qinglou for free, and invite the experienced Qinglou lady to take a premarital sex education class with him, and then bet according to his "performance".

only said that after Zhou Yannu opened the door, the old man gently pushed and sent Huang Dalang into the room, and the bustard's mother was also happy to grin and said, "Return the children!" The young master of the Huang family will hand it over to you! ”

"My daughter cares!" Zhou Yannu squatted down with the bustard mother and the old man to salute, and then closed the door.

Then the old man followed the bustard mother down to the first floor, and saw a fat man in a black brocade robe, and shouted: "Please flag!" ”

A few handymen hurriedly brought a large square table and put it under the flower stand, and brought a flag made of brocade, spread it on the square table, and fixed their eyes to see the red edge and white background of the flag, which was embroidered with a lattice to mark six areas, which were embroidered with the numbers "three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen, eighteen", and the people who were eating and listening to music in the lobby hulala came up, but they were not noisy, but raised their eyes to look at the wind word partition where Huang Dalang had just entered.

However, the old man didn't say much, went straight to the square table, took out two silver judgments of ten taels and threw them on the "eighteen".

After about the time of tea, I saw a middle-aged man in a blue shirt walked out of the rain word room next to the wind word, and everyone knew that he was a big teapot in Liuxianju, and I saw him show his hands, one hand was a cabbage core, and the other hand was holding a wooden Xianggong with the word "three" written on his chest.

"Three-inch Baotoulang?" Some people understood it at a glance, and immediately laughed, but because of the old man's face, he didn't dare to laugh out loud. In a place the size of a butt in Huangzhou City, if you laugh at others today, maybe someone else will laugh at you tomorrow, and Huang Dalang is not fifteen years old this year.

The big teapot Liang understood what was in his hand, so he returned to the house, and touched the time for half a cup of tea, but saw him holding a tea bowl in one hand, first spilled some tea out, and then took out a wooden Xianggong with the word "wanton" written on his chest.

After someone saw it, he was stunned and said: "This is the boy's water, and it has increased by an inch?" Strange! ”

There are also humanitarians: "Look at today's Xilang and his father are about to be as tall as ever, it must be a good seed, and it's not surprising!" ”

But the fat man in the black brocade robe said, "What's the noise? It's time to open the flag! Rely on your luck and leave your hands! ”

After speaking, the fat man took out two fifty taels of gold from the money bag under his waist and slapped them on the flag, and everyone took out silver taels and began to bet on the flag.

This kind of tall "Xilang" Guan Pu naturally no one will bet with copper coins, and all they take out are silver judgments, and the banker's capital is also strong, this hundred taels of gold can be used as more than a thousand taels of silver. I saw that everyone was good at three or three, so I went back to the table to eat and drink, and I could see that there were only three or five people who were dozens of taels, and there were more than six people, and I was afraid that there were no less than hundreds of taels, and there were a few sporadic bets on nine and twelve, but there were still people who bet on fifteen dozens of taels of silver, and those who bet on eighteen were only the two lonely silver judgments of the old man.

It was the work of tea again, and I heard the sound of a copper bell coming out of the wind room, and everyone in the lobby was shocked, and the secret passage began to pounce.

Immediately, I saw the big teapot take a scroll out, and unfold it and hang it on the railing on the second floor, which read: "Guanyin sits on the lotus." ”

The brass bell rang about twenty or thirty times and then stopped, but soon it rang again, and the big teapot between the rain words came out and hung a new scroll: "Take fire across the mountain." ”

Then the copper bell rang for a while and stopped for a while, and the big teapot kept coming out and hung up such as: the old man's cart, Houyi shooting the sun, Erlang Danshan, the golden rooster independence, and the jade girl blowing the flute...... and so on.

But when he said that when he hung up on the fourth scroll, the fat man who sat in the village smiled and took away the silver pressed on the word "three", and when he hung it on the seventh scroll, he also collected the silver pressed on the word "six".