Editing Drinking game (section)

===China===
Drinking games were enjoyed in ancient [[China]], usually incorporating the use of [[dice]] or verbal exchange of [[riddle]]s.<ref name="benn">{{cite book | author = Benn, Charles | date = 2002 | title =China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty | location = Oxford | publisher = Oxford University Press | isbn = 0-19-517665-0 }}</ref>{{rp|145}} During the [[Tang dynasty]] (618–907), the Chinese used a [[silver]] canister where written lots could be drawn that designated which player had to drink and specifically how much; for example, from 1, 5, 7, or 10 measures of drink that the youngest player, or the last player to join the game, or the most talkative player, or the host, or the player with the greatest [[alcohol (drug)|alcohol]] tolerance, etc. had to drink.<ref name="benn"/>{{rp|145–146}} There were even drinking game [[referee]] officials, including a 'registrar of the rules' who knew all the rules to the game, a 'registrar of the horn' who tossed a silver flag down on calling out second offenses, and a 'governor' who decided one's third call of offense.<ref name="benn"/>{{rp|146}} These referees were used mainly for maintaining order (as drinking games often became rowdy) and for reviewing faults that could be punished with a player drinking a penalty cup.<ref name="benn"/>{{rp|146}} If a guest was considered a 'coward' for dropping out of the game, he could be branded as a 'deserter' and not invited back to further drinking bouts.<ref name="benn"/>{{rp|146}} There was another game where little puppets and dolls dressed as western foreigners with blue eyes ([[Iranian peoples]]) were set up and when one fell over, the person it pointed to had to empty his cup of wine.<ref name="schafer 23">{{cite book | author = Schafer, Edward H | title = The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A study of T'ang Exotics | publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley and Los Angeles | edition = 1st paperback | date = 1985 | isbn = 0-520-05462-8}}</ref>

Drinking games became popular among elites in the late [[Qing dynasty|Qing period]] as part of the privileged class' urban leisure aesthetics.<ref name="Guo">{{Cite book |last=Guo |first=Li |title=Games & Play in Chinese & Sinophone Cultures |date=2024 |publisher=[[University of Washington Press]] |isbn=9780295752402 |editor-last=Guo |editor-first=Li |location=Seattle, WA |pages= |chapter=The Courtesans' Drinking Games in The Dream in the Green Bower |editor-last2=Eyman |editor-first2=Douglas |editor-last3=Sun |editor-first3=Hongmei}}</ref>{{Rp|page=117}} Novelists who invented literary-themed drinking games included [[Li Boyuan]] and Sun Yusheng.<ref name="Guo" />{{Rp|page=117}} Drinking games also increasingly appeared as elements in novels of the period such as Yu Da's ''The Dream in the Green Bower''.<ref name="Guo" />{{Rp|page=117}}