I’ve never been to a bar in the states that didn’t have a deck of cards on hand, and I’ve only once been to a bar in China that didn’t have a few cups for playing dice games.\u00a0 This is, of course, to participate in one of the numerous \u9152\u4ee4 (jiu3ling4 – drinking games) in China involving \u73a9\u9ab0\u5b50 (wan2 shai3zi – playing dice) or other tactics.\u00a0 If you don’t follow the rules, then the outcome might be be to \u7f5a\u4e00\u676f (fa2yi4(1)bei1 – fine one cup).<\/p>\n
\u62cd\u4e03 (pai1 qi1 – clap 7)
\nThis is a game where participants must go around in a circle counting up from any number between 1-20.\u00a0 Anytime that a number containing a 7 or any of 7’s \u500d\u6570 (bei4shu4 – multiples) comes up, the next person has to clap, and the counting continues in the opposite direction.\u00a0 Whoever claps out of turn or misses a clap point must drink.<\/p>\n
\u5212\u62f3<\/strong> (hua2quan2 – something like “wave fist”) To be continued..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve never been to a bar in the states that didn’t have a deck of cards on hand, and I’ve only once been to a bar in China that didn’t have a few cups for playing dice games.\u00a0 This is, of course, to participate in one of the numerous \u9152\u4ee4 (jiu3ling4 – drinking games) in…<\/p>\n
\nThis is a game where participants each put out 2 hands (if 2 people are playing), and must \u731c\u5230 (cai1dao4 – guess correctly) the total number of fingers showing.\u00a0 Each hand can only show 0 or 5 fingers, so someone might guess “10!” and have 5 fingers showing.\u00a0 Players take turns saying predictions until they get it right.\u00a0 Whoever loses has to take a drink.<\/p>\n