Editing Liubo (section)

==Players==
[[File:Liubo players in pottery tower.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Liubo players inside an Eastern Han model pottery tower]]
People who have played Liubo include:
*[[King Mu of Zhou]] (reigned 977–922 BCE), who according to the apocryphal ''Travels of King Mu'' once played a game of Liubo with a hermit that lasted three days.<ref>{{cite web | script-title=zh:穆天子傳/卷五 |trans-title=Account of King Mu of Zhou vol.5  | publisher=維基文庫 (Chinese Wikisource) | language=zh | url=http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E7%A9%86%E5%A4%A9%E5%AD%90%E5%82%B3/%E5%8D%B7%E4%BA%94 | quote=是日也，天子北入于邴，与井公博，三日而决。 | access-date=2009-06-26}}</ref>
*Duke Min of [[Song (state)|Song]] (宋湣公), who in 682 BCE got into an argument with Nangong Wan 南宮萬 whilst playing Liubo with him, and was killed by Nangong Wan when he hit the duke with the Liubo board.<ref>{{cite web | last=Sima | first=Qian | author-link=Sima Qian | script-title=zh:史記/卷038 |trans-title=Records of the Grand Historian vol.38 | publisher=維基文庫 (Chinese Wikisource) | language=zh | url=http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B2%E8%A8%98/%E5%8D%B7038 | quote=十一年秋，湣公與南宮萬獵，因博爭行，湣公怒，辱之，曰：「始吾敬若；今若，魯虜也。」萬有力，病此言，遂以局殺湣公于蒙澤。 | access-date=2009-06-26}}</ref>
*King Anxi of [[Wei (state)|Wei]] 魏安釐王 (reigned 277–243 BCE) and his half-brother [[Four Lords of the Warring States#Lord Xinling of Wei|Lord Xinling of Wei]] 信陵君 (died 243 BCE). Once when the two of them were playing Liubo a message came that the beacons on the northern border had been lit; King Anxi wanted to stop the game and discuss the situation with his ministers, but his brother told him not to worry as it was only the king of Zhao on a hunting trip, and so they continued playing. The king was worried and could not concentrate on the game, but after the game was over news came that it was indeed the king of Zhao out hunting.<ref>{{cite web | last=Sima | first=Qian | author-link=Sima Qian | script-title=zh:史記/卷077 |trans-title=Records of the Grand Historian vol.77 | publisher=維基文庫 (Chinese Wikisource) | language=zh | url=http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B2%E8%A8%98/%E5%8D%B7077 | quote=公子與魏王博，而北境傳舉烽，言「趙寇至，且入界」。魏王釋博，欲召大臣謀。公子止王曰：「趙王田獵耳，非為寇也。」複博如故。王恐，心不在博。 | access-date=2009-06-26}}</ref>
*[[Jing Ke]] (died 227 BCE), the failed assassin of [[Qin Shi Huang]], once had an argument with Lu Goujian (魯句踐) over a game of Liubo, and had to flee for his life.<ref>{{cite web | last=Sima | first=Qian | author-link=Sima Qian | script-title=zh:史記/卷86 |trans-title=Records of the Grand Historian vol.86 | publisher=維基文庫 (Chinese Wikisource) | language=zh | url=http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B2%E8%A8%98/%E5%8D%B7086 | quote=荊軻遊於邯鄲，魯句踐與荊軻博，爭道，魯句踐怒而叱之，荊軻嘿而逃去，遂不復會。 | access-date=2009-06-26}}</ref>
*[[Emperor Jing of Han]] (reigned 156–141 BCE), who when he was crown prince became angry during a game of Liubo with the Prince of Wu, and threw the Liubo board at the prince, killing him (cf. [[Rebellion of the Seven States]]).<ref>{{cite web | last=Sima | first=Qian | author-link=Sima Qian | script-title=zh:史記/卷106 |trans-title=Records of the Grand Historian vol.106 | publisher=維基文庫 (Chinese Wikisource) | language=zh | url=http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B2%E8%A8%98/%E5%8D%B7106 | quote=孝文時，吳太子入見，得侍皇太子飲博。吳太子師傅皆楚人，輕悍，又素驕，博，爭道，不恭，皇太子引博局提吳太子，殺之。 | access-date=2009-06-26}}</ref>
*[[Liang Ji]] (died 159), who according to his biography was fond of playing Liubo.
*[[Li Guangyan]] (761–826), a [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] general who was presented with a girl who was trained in the arts of "song, dance, music and Liubo".<ref>{{cite web | last=Xu | first=Liu | script-title=zh:列传第一百一十一 |trans-title=Biographies chapter 111 | work=旧唐书 ([[Old Book of Tang]]) | language=zh | publisher=梦远书城 (my285.com) | url=http://www.my285.com/shishu/jts/165.htm | access-date=2009-06-26}}</ref>
*[[Liu Chong|Liu Min]] (895–954), a [[Shato|Shatuo Turk]] and founder of the [[Northern Han]] kingdom, liked to play Liubo and gambling games when he was young.<ref>{{cite web | last=Xue | first=Juzheng | script-title=zh:舊五代史/卷135 |trans-title=Old History of the Five Dynasties vol. 135 | publisher=維基文庫 (Chinese Wikisource) | language=zh | url=http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%88%8A%E4%BA%94%E4%BB%A3%E5%8F%B2/%E5%8D%B7135 | access-date=2009-06-26}}</ref>

[[Confucius]] did not approve of Liubo. In the ''[[Analects]]'' he grudgingly allows that playing Liubo and [[Go (game)|Go]] is better than being idle,<ref>{{cite web | last=Kong | first=Qiu | author-link=Confucius | script-title=zh:論語/陽貨第十七 |trans-title=Analects ch. 17 | publisher=維基文庫 (Chinese Wikisource) | language=zh | quote=子曰：「飽食終日，無所用心，難矣哉！不有博弈者乎？為之，猶賢乎已！」 | url=http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%AB%96%E8%AA%9E/%E9%99%BD%E8%B2%A8%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%83 | access-date=2009-06-26}}</ref> and according to the ''[[Kongzi Jiayu]]'' (''Family Sayings of Confucius'') he stated that he would not play the game as it promoted bad habits.<ref>{{cite web | script-title=zh:孔子家語/卷一 |trans-title=Family Sayings of Confucius vol. 1 | publisher=維基文庫 (Chinese Wikisource) | language=zh | quote=哀公問於孔子曰：“吾聞君子不博，有之乎？”孔子曰：“有之。”公曰：“何為？”對曰：“為其二乘。”公曰：“有二乘，則何為不博？”子曰：“為其兼行惡道也。” | url=http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%AD%94%E5%AD%90%E5%AE%B6%E8%AA%9E/%E5%8D%B7%E4%B8%80 | access-date=2009-06-26}}</ref>