First, the landowner on the upper plate shuffles the cards, flips over a card at random, stacks it back into the pile and distributes it. The side that draws this turned-out card can choose the order of the needles from the remaining players that is greater than the previously chosen score or 0 points. 0 points equals giving up.(引文)
Originated in Fangxian County, Shiyan, Hubei Province, it is said to have been adapted by a young man named Wu Xiuquan based on the popular local poker game “Run Fast”. Since the emergence of Landlord Dou Zhu in parts of southern Anhui and Jiangsu in the early 1990s, it has rapidly spread spread across the country and became popular on the Internet. The four-player rule was summarized and finalized by Hu Ronghua, the Chinese chess king. Shanghai has used this set of rules to hold many televised mass competitions.(引文)