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Chinese Chess Pieces of Song Dynasty 960-1279 A.D.
These bronze game pieces unearthed from the Song Dynasty
contains general, advisors (guards), elephants (ministers, or bishops), wagons (rooks),
horses (knights), cannon, and pawns. However, unlike the modern Xiangqi, each piece has a
picture carved on the back. The general carries a sword dressed in his uniform, sitting in a
military tent. Guards are females, wearing armors. The ministers are literally elephants.
Rooks are wagons for transporting
rocks for the rock-slingers. Knights are horses. Cannons
are actually rock-slinging machines. Pawns are depicted to hold spears. This set was
unearthed in Kai Fung in Beijing.
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