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Traditional Chinese Board Games
 
It’s no secret that Chinese people have always loved getting together with friends and neighbours to play a board game – well before specialist cafés and bars arrived.
If you walk through any park or residential area in China on a hot summer evening, you’re bound to come across groups of older people on the pavements crowded around a game of Weiqi (Go), Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) or the favourite among Chengdu locals, Majiang (Mahjong).  
 
Weiqi (Go)
Weiqi is a two-player board game that originated in China over 5,000 years ago. That’s so long ago, it’s said to be the oldest board game in the world that’s been continuously played to the present day!
Legend has it that this unique strategy game was invented by Emperor Yao (2,255–2206 BC) as a teaching tool to discipline his ‘playboy’ son Dan Zhu.
The art of strategically placing the game’s black and white stones soon became one of the four essential skills that ancient Chinese scholars had to master, in order to be considered ‘cultured’.
Today Weiqi’s popularity is still largely centred in Eastern Asia, where there are said to be over 20 million regular players.
 
Xiangqi (Chinese Chess)
Literally translating as ‘Elephant Chess’, Xiangqi is the traditional Chinese version of what we know around the world as chess.
The object of the game is the same – capture your opponent’s king, while protecting your own. However, just to make things a bit more tricky, the Xiangqi board has a “river” running directly between you and your opponent. Only certain chess pieces can cross the “river”, and crossing it often changes their movement and abilities.
Another major difference – Xianqi has cannons, chariots and elephants for chess pieces.
 
Majiang (Mahjong)
It’s by far the most commonly played game on the streets of China.
Invented in China during the Qing dynasty, Majiang is most often played between four people – though a public game will usually attract a far larger crowd around the table!
There are plenty of detailed English-language guides online if you want to get your head around the rules. In essence though, it’s based around drawing and discarding tiles showing various Chinese characters and symbols in order to make a particular  “set”.
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