Rules of Bocai: Each Bocai will have 1 "Scholar", 2 "Right", 4 "Three Red", 8 "Four", 16 "Two", and 32 "One". Four into the "8," "two move" 16, "a show" 32. Plenary size 63 cakes, containing seven nine sixty-three number, is an auspicious number. The country is nine nine eighty-one is the number used by the emperor, eight nine seventy-two is the number of thousands of years, and Zheng Chenggong sealed Yanping Wang, so use the number of sixty-three.
Sixty-three cakes in size represent the scholar, the top scorer, the scout, the scholar, the lifter and the showman. With six dice in a large porcelain bowl to throw. Bo rules are mainly 30 models: a show, two lifts, three red, respectively, to appear a red four, two red four, three red four for the cake.
The first prize is to appear four red four points, two red one point for the highest level, called "first prize insertion of gold flowers", can be awarded the first prize and two to the hall **** 3 large cakes. Scholar to appear four four red for the minimum level, which also sent four red with how many points than the big; "five children" appeared to pressure over the four red, that is, "five" in addition to five red four of any five as counted as "five children The first is to take a look at the "five points" of the game, and the second is to take a look at the "five points" of the game.
"Five red" is the emergence of five red four points, the pressure over the "five children", which in turn to bring how many points than the big. The first one is called the "right hall" of the top, the flower appeared one to six points have won the cake. In addition, there are rarely seen "six Park red", that is, six four points appear.
"Six Park red" winner, you can get all the cake, but generally friendly, the winner only take the first prize and the Hall, the rest will be given to everyone to eat. The "Six Park Black" refers to the appearance of any six of the same in addition to the six red four points. "Six Park Black" appeared, everyone can turn off the lights to grab the cake, but now generally no longer used.
Origin of Mid-Autumn Festival:
Mid-Autumn Festival (Mid-Autumn Festival), a traditional folklore popular in Xiamen, Fujian Province, one of the national intangible cultural heritage. Founded in Zheng Chenggong army. The custom of Mid-Autumn Cake-playing originated in Xiamen, Fujian Province, and was prevalent in Longhai, Zhangzhou, Anhai, Quanzhou and Kinmen County, etc. It was recorded in the Taiwan Prefecture Records of the Kangxi and Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty.
Every Mid-Autumn Festival, Southern Fujian and Taiwan will hold a Mid-Autumn Festival Bocai event spontaneously with families or associations as units, in which participants take turns throwing six dice to win six ranks of scholar, scholar, scholar, scholar, and scholar, and obtain mooncakes of different sizes according to the ranks. The rules of the game are simple and fair, full of competition and suspense, but also rich in life interest, has always been loved by the general public.
Reference: Fujian Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism - What are the special mid-autumn mooncakes in Fujian?