流觴曲水

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See also: 流觞曲水

Chinese

to flow; to spread; to circulate
to flow; to spread; to circulate; to move
 
feast; goblet
tune; song; bent
tune; song; bent; crooked; wrong
 
water; river
trad. (流觴曲水)
simp. (流觞曲水)
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Etymology

清流左右流觴曲水列坐其次 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
清流左右流觞曲水列坐其次 [Literary Chinese, simp.]
From: 353 CE, Wang Xizhi, Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion
yòu yǒu qīngliú jī tuān, yìng dài zuǒyòu, yǐn yǐ wèi liúshāngqūshuǐ, lièzuò qícì
The guests are seated side by side to have the winding stream party.

Pronunciation


Noun

流觴曲水

  1. the winding stream party, an ancient drinking game played during the 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)

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