Arrow-Casting

It is a casting game played during a banquet among the scholar-bureaucrats in ancient times. During the Spring and Autumn Period, one of the etiquettes for the princes to treat guests was to play archery games. At that time, a man who could not shoot would be deemed as disgrace, thus no guests shall decline if he were asked to shoot an arrow. Later, those unable to play archery indeed would find a substitute for the game, that is, to cast arrows into a flagon. As the rule goes, the one who got the most hits was the winner while the loser would be made to drink. As time passes, the arrow-casting game became popular instead of arrow shooting and was played during a banquet.