Some people say that chess was invented by Indians. Is there any historical basis for this?

As a puzzle game and cultural treasure with a long history and wide spread in China, chess has won the hearts of Chinese people with its unique and interesting gameplay and intelligent design. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, chess rooms were opened everywhere in the streets. But it is such a symbol of China culture, which was described as plagiarism by a British scholar.

/kloc-in the 0 th and 8 th centuries, the Qing dynasty implemented a closed-door policy. At this time, the British Empire, eyeing China's wealth, began to attack China's culture long before the war, including denigrating China's inventions. They don't want to admit that China's papermaking promoted the Renaissance in Europe, and even fabricated a lie that hemp paper was invented by the Germans to paralyze the masses. It was not until 1797 that Nicolas Louis Robert of France invented machine papermaking to surpass traditional papermaking, and the disadvantage of Europeans in papermaking came to an end.

Thus, in such a slanderous frenzy, British linguist William Jones claimed that after textual research, China chess originated in India and was not invented by China (linguists obviously robbed the game of textual research on the origin of chess). The reason is that chess is called chess because there are elephants, but there are no elephants in China and elephants in India, so chess originated in India.

According to historical records, China was actually a generation with Asian elephants in ancient times. The story of elephants in Cao Chong in the Three Kingdoms is enough to show that only with the slaughter of human beings and the change of climate, the living range of elephants gradually weakened, and finally they were trapped in Yunnan. Any great invention inevitably requires cultural exchange. Bian Xiao can't guarantee that China's invention didn't draw lessons from foreign cultures, but at least the reason is not so wonderful (except for elephants, chess is not called war chess, nor car chess ...). In fact, the reason why chess is called chess is symbolic, as if it also means "prime minister". The "images" of both sides are not consistent in words.

As early as the Warring States period, there was a record of "six pieces of chess pieces were thin". As for the evolution of Chu River and Han Land, Han Xin added it. Finally, it was perfected that the China chess that we see now was made by Niu monks and nuns in the Tang Dynasty, which later influenced the creation of chess and Japanese chess.

There are always people who can't stand lies. 1972, Yugoslavian historian Bijifu wrote Chess-A Symbol of the Universe, which proves that chess originated in China in 569 AD, which is fair. But later, Indian scholars published various articles claiming that China chess originated from India's four-person chess game Chatulanga, and the invention right of China chess was swinging again.

In today's world cultural heritage application era, in order not to repeat the mistakes of South Korea's Dragon Boat Festival application, it is very important to retain the invention right of chess!