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Two people playing jianzi A traditional jianzi A group playing jianzi in Beijing's Temple of Heaven park. Jiànzi (Chinese: 毽子), tī jiànzi (踢毽子), tī jiàn (踢毽), or jiànqiú (毽球), is a traditional Chinese sport in which players aim to keep a heavily weighted shuttlecock in the air using their bodies apart from the hands, unlike in similar games such as peteca and indiaca.
In this game, one player is the eagle, another player is the chicken, and the remaining players are chicks. The chicks form a line behind the chicken by holding each other's waists, and the goal of the eagle is to tag the chicks, while the chicken tries to prevent this by holding their arms out and moving around.
Pitch-pot (simplified Chinese: 投壶; traditional Chinese: 投壺) is a traditional Chinese game that requires players to throw arrows or sticks from a set distance into a large, sometimes ornate, canister. The game had originated by the Warring States period of China, probably invented by archers or soldiers as a pastime during idle periods. [1]
The game was originally called 麻雀 (pinyin: máquè; Jyutping: maa 4 zoek 3–2)—meaning sparrow—which is still used in several Chinese languages, mostly in the south, such as Cantonese and Hokkien.
Xiangqi (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː ŋ tʃ i /; Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China.
The game became popular in Amoy (now Xiamen) and is considered a folk game. The Hokkien Chinese name Po̍ah-piáⁿ translates as "gambling for cakes", and the game traditionally has 63 different sized mooncakes as prizes for the winning players: 32 of the smallest cake, half as many of the next largest, and so on ending with a single large ...
Chinese jump rope combines the skills of hopscotch with some of the patterns from the hand-and-string game cat's cradle. The game began in 7th-century China. In the 1960s, children in the Western hemisphere adapted the game. German-speaking children call Chinese jump rope gummitwist and British children call it elastics. The game is typically ...
Fan-Tan, or fantan (simplified Chinese: 番摊; traditional Chinese: 番攤; pinyin: fāntān; Jyutping: faan1 taan1; lit. 'repeated divisions') is a gambling game long played in China. It is a game of pure chance. The game is played by placing two handfuls of small objects on a board and guessing the remaining count when divided by four.