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The protagonist of today's story is very famous, his name is Fang Arkzi, and once he made a public statement that "chess originated in India, not China." Then the reason given is - "there were no elephants in ancient China", I believe that all friends who have studied history will be speechless when they see his words, why does a doctor and popular science writer say such things irresponsibly? So is chess Chinese or not?
First of all, we must know that the "chess" mentioned by Fang Arkzi is "Chinese chess", not "chess". Chess, also known as "Elephant Qi (qí)", is a cultural treasure of the Chinese nation, as early as 2008, Chess was approved by the State Council to be included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, let's take a look at its historical origins.
In the next few hundred years, "Xiangqi" underwent many changes, by the Song Dynasty, it has basically approached today's "Xiangqi", in Sima Guang's "Seven Kingdoms Elephant Play", Yin Su's "XiangJu Grid", "Chess Posture", Chao Shuzhi's "Guangxiang Play Map" all have records about "Chinese Chess", the system and gameplay are quite detailed, enough to prove that "Xiangqi" is the invention of Our country.
Let's look at the reason that Fang Arkzi said that there were no elephants in ancient China, and this view is even easier to refute.
The story of "Cao Chong called an elephant" even a three-year-old child knows, at that time people only praised Cao Chong for being very intelligent, and did not think that "elephant" was a rare thing, which shows that elephants had already appeared in China during the Three Kingdoms period; the "History of Song" even recorded: "The elephant breeding house is in charge of the royal taming of elephants." This means that during the Song Dynasty, China already had places dedicated to the domestication of elephants.
Not to mention that when the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin made Pan Mei to please the Southern Han, the Southern Han sent elephant soldiers to meet the battle, elephants in ancient China is not difficult to see at all, if according to the explanation of the Ark Zi "China does not have elephants, so chess is not invented in China", then in addition to India, Thailand, Vietnam also have elephants, there are also elephant soldiers, why not say that they invented chess? Say it's India?
In fact, Fang Arkzi said this because ancient India invented a chess piece called "Chaturanga", which has four kinds of chess pieces in "infantry, cavalry, chariot and elephant", and Fang Arkzi considers the "elephant" of "Chinese chess" as the "elephant" in "Chaturanga", which is very superficial.
Don't forget, the "elephant" and "phase" in "Chinese chess" are the same, representing the civilian official of "Xiang Xiang", so in "Chinese Chess" it does not go out to fight, and the "war elephant" in "Chess" is not the same thing at all, and it has nothing to do with India.
Questioning is everyone's right, but as a public figure with many followers, Fang Arkzi negated the invention of "Chinese chess" with such a superficial "three words and two words", which is both irresponsible and a taint of Chinese chess culture.