820 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



C. Shinci Kun T'o. "The Game of the Promotion of Officials." Can- 

 ton, China. 



iJoard ' and Dice.'^ A celebrated Chinese game, best known through 

 Dr. Hyde's account as "the Game of the Promotion of Mandarins," 

 played by two or more persons upon a large paper diagram, upon which 

 are printed the titles of the ditterent officials under tlie Chinese Gov- 

 ernment. Four dice are thrown, and the players advance through the 

 various grades according to tlieir throws.' 



This complicated game may be regarded as a modification of the Nyout 

 circuit, the dice replacing the staves. Its line of descent is indicated 

 by the corresponding Korean game, which follows. 



7. Tjyong-Kyeng-To. The Game of Dignitaries. Korea. 

 [a) Wooden die.^ 



{b) Keproduction of native picture of players engaged at the game.'"' 

 (Plate 24.) 



The Korean form of the Chinese game of Shinff kirn I'-o. A long five- 

 sided wooden die (fig. 13G), with its edges notched with strokes from 



one to five, is employed, in- 

 stead of cnbical dice. 



I regard the use of this 



die as older than that of 



cubical dice, and the die 



itself to have been derived 



from the four staves, such 



Fig. 136. as are employed in Nyout. 



TJYONG-KYENo-To. Thls implcmcut furnishes a 



Length, 4 inchea. conuectiug Uuk wlth the 



^'^^^'^^- spinning die or teetotum 



Cat. N... nofinn, I'.S.N.M. '■ ^ 



(tig. 137), which, notched 

 like it, is also used in Korea in the same game. 



The diagram for the game in the University Museum (Cat. No. 17026) 

 is written in Chinese (characters upon a sheet of white Korean i)aper 

 2oh by 37i inches. This is divided by lines into one hundred and eight 

 (9 by 12) rectangles, in each one of which is the title of a Korean official, 

 with the indication beneath it for the next move, acccordingly as the 

 throw is from one up to five. Another Korean game (Oat. No. 17699) in 

 the same museum, i)layed in the same manner with the same kind of die 

 upon a sheet of pai)er of the same size, is entitled Xam-seung-to (Chi- 

 nese, lam shhif/ to), or " View- winning game." The sheet is divided 

 by lines into one hundred and forty-four squares (9 by 16), within 



' Cat. No.169333, U.S.N.M. Gift of Stewart Culin. 

 2 Cat. No. 1.^2.-i48, U.S.N.M. 



•' Described at length in Chinese Games with Dice and Domiuoes, Repoi't U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1S93, p. 504. 



' Cat. No. 175660, U.S.N.M. (iift of Stewart Culin. 

 '• Stewart Culin, Korean (iames. 



