流觴曲水

Mandarin

simpl.		流觞曲水
trad.		流觴曲水

Etymology

• 353: Wang Xizhi, Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion (蘭亭集序)

  又有清流激湍，映帶左右，引以為流觴曲水，列坐其次

  The guests are seated side by side to play the drinking game where a wine cup is floated down the stream and the first person sitting in front of the cup when it stops must drink. (Wiktionary translation)

Noun

流觴曲水 (traditional, Pinyin liú shāng qū shuǐ, simplified 流觞曲水)

1. an ancient drinking game played during Spring Purification Festival in which a cup of wine is floated down a stream with people seated on both side (the person sitting in front of the cup when it stops has to drink)

References

• 流觴曲水 on the Mandarin Wikipedia.zh.Wikipedia
• "流觴曲水" (in Mandarin), Guoyu Cidian On-line Mandarin Dictionary (國語辭典). URL accessed on 2011-09-26.
• 2007, Hanyu Da Cidian 3.0 (in Mandarin), Hong Kong: Commercial Press, ISBN 9789620702778: