{"id":18390,"date":"2020-02-24T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/learning-to-play-chinese-chess\/"},"modified":"2020-02-24T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T23:03:08","slug":"learning-to-play-chinese-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/learning-to-play-chinese-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to play Chinese chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tPlaying games in Chinese and\/or with Chinese people is an excellent way of learning Mandarin. It&#39;s fun, social and opens up many doors. Knowing how to play popular board games in China also makes you popular in general. Read more about why playing board games is a great idea if you&#39;re learning Mandarin here. In this article, I&#39;m going to introduce \u8c61\u68cb (xi&agrave;ngq&iacute;) &quot;Chinese chess&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>  \tIntroducing \u8c61\u68cb (xi&agrave;ngq&iacute;) &quot;Chinese chess&quot;<\/p>\n<p>  \tChinese chess is a classic board game played in ancient times. Exactly how old it is and what the relationship is to international chess is unclear, but it seems likely that they both share a common ancestor in India, but have developed differently, perhaps because of influences from already existing board games. In Chinese, the game is called \u8c61\u68cb (xi&agrave;ngq&iacute;), which literally means &quot;elephant chess&quot;, but is usually called &quot;Chinese chess&quot; in English (&quot;x&quot; and &quot;q&quot; are hard to pronounce, even for people who study Chinese!)<\/p>\n<p>  \tDon&#39;t confuse Chinese chess, which is fairly similar to international chess, with Chinese checkers, which is a completely different game that actually isn&#39;t Chinese, but that&#39;s another story.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3289511094\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing games in Chinese and\/or with Chinese people is an excellent way of learning Mandarin. It&#39;s fun, social and opens up many doors. Knowing how to play popular board games in China also makes you popular in general. Read more about why playing board games is a great idea if you&#39;re learning Mandarin here. In this article, I&#39;m going to introduce \u8c61\u68cb (xi&agrave;ngq&iacute;) &quot;Chinese chess&quot;.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2875],"tags":[151,246],"class_list":["post-18390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-customs","tag-mandarin","tag-study-chinese"],"views":315,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}