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Similar to another board game – liubo (six rods) – in ancient China, 清十八世紀 紫檀嵌骨雙陸棋盤
double-sixes (shuanglu, a game related to modern backgammon) was
first introduced in the Northern and Southern Dynasties (AD 420- 雙陸，或雙六，同六博，都是中國古代執骰行棋的博戲之一。雙陸源自
589). It is a game between two players throwing dice on a board, and 西域天竺，魏晉期間傳入中國，盛於唐代，晚清逐漸式微。美國弗利爾
originated in the Sindhu Kingdom (a kingdom of India), which gained
popularity in the Tang dynasty (AD 618-907), and fell out of fashion 美術館藏有一幅傳唐代周昉所作之《內人雙陸圖》，描繪兩位唐代貴族
in the nineteenth century. A Tang painting, The Palace Ladies Playing 婦女正對坐玩棋，並有二、三人靜立觀棋的情景。
Double Sixes, attributed to Zhou Fang (c. AD 730-800) from the
collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, depicts a scene of two noble ladies 明代亦有棋桌帶雙陸棋盤。相關例件可參考《大美木藝：明清傢俱珍
playing double-sixes. 品》，北京，2014 年，頁 80-83。兩依藏有一相似例，上嵌後配象牙，
刊於柯惕思，《小件》，香港，2007 年，頁 150-151。其它類件亦可參
The ‘double-sixes’ tray was an integral part of games tables from the
Ming period onward. An example from the collection of the National 閱：伍嘉恩，《攻玉山房藏明式黃花梨家具》，香港，1991 年，圖版編
Museum of China is illustrated in Damei muyi: Zhongguo Ming Qing 號 62，頁 152-153；王世襄與柯惕思，《中國古典家具博物館的珍品》，
jiaju zhenpin, Beijing, 2014, pp. 80-3. A similar game tray, but inlaid 芝加哥及三藩市，1995 年，圖版編號 91。
with ivory, from the Liang Yi Collection was included in Curtis Evarts,
Small Objects, Hong Kong, 2007, pp. 150-1. Other similar examples 有關雙陸棋的討論，可參閱陳增弼，〈Double Sixes〉，《Journal of the
are illustrated in Grace Wu Bruce, The Dr. S.Y. Yip Collection of Classic Classical Chinese Furniture Society》，第 2 冊，第 3 期，1992 年夏季號，
Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1991, pl. 62, pp. 152-3; Wang Shixiang
and Curtis Evarts, Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese 頁 48-55。
Furniture, Chicago and San Francisco, 1995, pl. 91.
For further discussion of the game of ‘double-sixes’, see Asian Games:
The Art of Context, Asia Society, New York, 2004, p. 98, no. 8:4. Also,
Chen Zengbi, “Double Sixes”, Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture
Society, Vol. 2, No. 3, Summer 1992, pp. 48-55.

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