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Playing board games is a popular custom in China, both ancient and modern.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, people played the "promotion chart" that was similar to "flying chess".
Parents encourage their children to play with the promotion chart, because "promotion" starts from the baby - embarking on a career and getting promoted to make a fortune is the "right way" in life.
Just like the thrilling "mahjong play" in "Lust and Caution", the core of Chinese board games lies in the quiet game.
Although the promotion chart has become an antique, the core of the "Sims" game is consistent: in a highly survival of the fittest society, how to read books are consistent with the ups and downs of fate, and learn to re-understand themselves from the perspective of fighting, especially the relationship between success and luck.
The promotion chart is similar to the "Sims" of ancient Chinese scholars.
In an agricultural society, people don't often go out after winter, and the whole family uses promotion charts to pass the time.
The promotion chart is also called "color selection grid" and "election chart", and the goal is to continue to be promoted, and calculate the complex promotion path by rolling the dice.
The chessboard is generally a one-and-a-half-foot square, about the size of a table of eight immortals. There are blocks printed on the chessboard, and in the center is the target "Extreme Minister", Taishi, Taibao, and Taifu.
There are three circles of grids around Taishi, Taibao, and Taifu, and each grid has an official rank written on it, which is arranged in order according to the category and size of the yamen.
Promotion chart. The "Jingguan" has the Hanlin Yuan and the cabinet in the capital, and there are six ministries and the governor and governor; "Foreign officials" include official positions such as "Zhizhou, Zhoutong, State Judge, and Official" in various places. The rank is indicated above the official position, such as Zhizhou is from the fifth grade, and the above is marked "from the five", and so on.
The outermost circle of the board is the "starting point" of the game, that is, the "origin" of the player. Starting from Bai Ding, through a total of 15 kinds of origins, such as Tongsheng, Case Head, Supervisor, Xiucai, Gongsheng, Juren, Xie Yuan, Jinshi, Tanhua, Bangyan, Zhuangyuan, etc., sprint to the "Three Princes" Taishi Taibao Taifu.
How to sprint depends on the dice - four small spinning tops, each with "virtue", "talent", "merit" and "stolen goods" written on it. The rotation stops, and the speed and progress of the promotion are determined according to the displayed characters and the rewards and punishments at the bottom of the chessboard.
Virtue" is the best judgment, and it can be promoted by leapfrogging. "Cai" can also be promoted, but "merit" will remain unchanged, and the word "stolen" will be degraded.
The promotion chart is said to have originated in the Tang Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty called it "Election Chart", and the name was fixed in the Ming and Qing dynasties. **Period, there are still fighting dramas in various places. In Hong Kong, until the 1970s, nearly 2,000 promotion charts could still be sold every year, and most of the consumers were students, which shows the depth of the custom.
In the Qing Dynasty, the "promotion map" was a must-play game during the year.
According to the "Haiyuntang Essays": "Bingshen (1896) on the thirteenth day of the first month. New Year's Day and New Year's Day.
Ten. 5. On March 15, the merchants on the mouth went to the Tin Hau Temple to incense and called 'playing spring'. Merchants and people play leaf opera, pounce on old chickens, throw promotion pictures, and play brocade all over the ground. ”
The threshold for the game is not high, let's not be intimidated by a large list of official positions, there are several key points in the promotion chart. Caught the "bull's nose" and got twice the result with half the effort.
The first important thing is the background. There is a plug-in at the beginning, and there is only one situation, the hereditary heir of Confucius, the only one in the country, the most noble. Background will affect the player's future development, and it is quite important to vote for a good tire. Of course, there is no need to be depressed if you don't have a good background, because there is still a relatively equal opportunity for class jumping.
The second most important thing is the imperial examination. After the township examination, the meeting examination and the palace examination, if the results are not good, they will become petty officials and officials; Those who are promoted in the examination, jinshi and champion will have the opportunity to become a big official. Imperial examinations and fame are prerequisites for being an official.
Partial promotion chart.
The third important thing is to be an official. To be an official is a Beijing official or a local official, from "not entering the stream" and "from the nine products" all the way to the first product, step by step, walking on thin ice.
The fourth important thing is retirement. Don't underestimate retirement, even if you are ranked among the "three publics", landing safely is the most important thing. Although the first to be promoted to the Taishi (Zhengyipin) is the winner, it is necessary to throw the "virtue" in the position of the "Taishi" and get the "glory" to call the merit complete.
There's something interesting.
For example, "the punishment is not a doctor": after the player becomes a high-ranking player, even if he throws more "stolen goods", he will not be deposed and demoted.
For example, "gray tricks": Beijing officials have been in office for a long time, go to the "yamen of other provinces" to go around, and advance faster; Or stay in the same official position for a long time, it is better to throw "stolen goods" than to throw "virtue" - "de" can only go to the Hanlin Academy, and then has been going around the yamen of the school department, and can not enter the right way, and the "stolen goods" are demoted to make a small seven products, but it is possible to go from the government to the governor, and the governor to the "three dukes".
It has a bit of the meaning of "officialdom appearance".
Qing Jialu contains a poem Yuefu, which reads "A piece of paper for an official in a dynasty, and if it is feasible, it will stop", which implies the gameplay and meaning of the promotion chart, as well as the connotation of Confucianism wrapped inside.
Mencius said, "If you can do it, you can stop it, if you can stop it, if you can do it for a long time, if you can do it quickly, Confucius." "Everything goes with the flow, and there is no need to force it.
"Xing", that is, the official, knows the official system of the dynasty, plans the path of life in advance, studies hard, and does a good job. "Stop" is to understand the rules of officialdom and master the Chinese wisdom of life - the relationship between gains and losses and people's ability and quality is not too large, and luck accounts for a large part.
In the Qing Dynasty, there was a Taishou who was demoted twice and has been depressed ever since. Qian Yong, the author of "Tales from the Garden", wrote a letter to comfort him not to mind, which is also like throwing a promotion picture, "Its gains and losses do not lie in the virtuous or unscrupulous, but in the ears of Bu Qi". After reading it, I was relieved.
Promotion chart. When Zhang Tingyu, a famous minister in the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, was in charge of the ministry, he was very familiar with the ** list of the emperor who wanted to appoint or punish. But after a few years, he found an inexplicable "law": some people who Yongzheng wanted to promote suddenly suffered ** or died of illness, and Yongzheng didn't consider ** at all, and was reused by mistake.
Zhang Tingyu lamented the impermanence of fate, and there are "a certain number" of major events in life. Later, he often taught his children and grandchildren to study hard, but also to "live at ease with righteousness" and honestly obey the arrangement of fate.
Zeng Guofan also said, "In the world, luck is the main sixth, personnel is the fourth, and the wealth and wealth are especially rich."
In fact, the promotion chart is just popular, and people with style and bones don't like it. The so-called "official information is in the middle of a paper" and becomes an official by engaging in relationships, playing with one's heart, taking shortcuts, and finding tricks, which makes many intellectuals look down on them. Su Shi wrote, "I hope that the child will be stupid and reckless, and there will be no disaster and no difficulty to the minister", which is tantamount to a spicy mockery of the officialdom.
For this reason, many people have developed other versions of the promotion chart, engaging in "birth" content to show "clear height".
Like the "Choosing Immortal Chart" and "Range Rover Chart" are alternatives to the promotion chart.
Even the emperor played the "Choosing Immortal Map" (it was impossible for the emperor to play the promotion chart). According to the record of "Qing Barnyard Banknotes", Qianlong once "made" the "Birthday Celebration of the Immortals", "throwing it with dice, thinking that it was a New Year's toy". When he arrived at Cixi, he re-updated it, drew a new map, and gave it to the minister together with a silver dice basin and ivory dice to entertain him.
Choosing a fairy map. The "Range Rover Map" is to visit the scenery, which is equivalent to the ancient "traveling frog". The earliest recorded such fight is called "Elimination of Night", which takes travel as the content and changes the official name in the promotion map into a place name.
After the Qing Dynasty, there was a "West Lake Map" and "Range Rover Map", the goal was the world's scenic spots, starting from the "Lao Lao Pavilion" (from Li Bai's poem "The world is sad, Lao Lao sent the guest pavilion"), through Yingzhou, Penglai, Tiantai, Taoyuan and other places, and finally to the "Guanzhi".
Writer Chen Baichen wrote the drama "Promotion Chart". In August 1945, the Anti-Japanese War was won. The Kuomintang at all levels was busy "looting" in various places, and the wind of corruption became even more intense. Chen Baichen used the dream of two robbers to replace the county magistrate and secretary general to expose the ugly features of the Kuomintang bureaucracy in flattering and doing all kinds of evil. It is known as the Chinese version of Gogol's "The Minister".
In addition to professionals who study the ancient bureaucracy, people today no longer need to be promoted to "spend the night". Nowadays, there are too many entertainment products that can "kill the night", and players don't need to use this to understand any reason.
Author |Rong wisdom.
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Duty Editor |Zhang Lai.
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