Chinese Chess Culture

Chinese Chess is a chess game originated in China, belonging to a kind of two-player antagonistic game, and has a long history in China. Because of its simple equipment and strong sense of fun, it has become an extremely popular chess activity.

Chinese chess is a cultural treasure of the Chinese nation, which has a long history, strong interest, simple and easy to understand the basic rules, and has been flourishing for thousands of years. Chinese chess is a simulation of ancient warfare, linear warfare, land warfare, and plane warfare. In ancient China, chess was classified as an art of cultivation for the scholars. Nowadays, it is regarded as a kind of activity that is good for the mind and body. Xiangqi is a combination of culture, science, art and competition, which not only develops intelligence, enlightens thinking, exercises the ability of discursive analysis and cultivates tenacity of will, but also cultivates the mind and cultivates the temperament and enriches the cultural life, which is y loved by the general public.

Chess is played with a square lattice board and red and black round pieces, on which there are ten horizontal lines and nine vertical lines*** divided into 90 intersections; there are 32 chess pieces*** of each color, 16 pieces, divided into 7 pawns, which are placed and active at the intersections. Both sides alternate moves, and the side that first "kills" the other side's general (marshal) wins. In China, Xiangqi, which has a history of several thousand years and is full of oriental wisdom, has a mass base in China that far exceeds that of Weiqi, and has always been the most popular chess program.