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Evidence for Xiangqi (Trigault)
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.2004
Type Ethnography
Location 17 Cent Qing
Date 1611-01-01 - 1628-12-31
Rules 5x8 board. Five pawns, one king, two scholars, two horses, two cauldrons. The king begins on the central spot of one of the short rows of the board, flanked by two scholars, which are flanked by two horses. The cauldrons are in front of the horses, and the pawns are one square in front of all the pieces. The cauldron moves any number of spaces orthogonally. The scholars move as queens (either one space diagonally or any number of spaces diagonally or orthogonally). The king cannot be in check.
Content Hyde, quoting an account by Nicolas Trigault, a Jesuit missionary who traveled to China: "Graviores fallendo temporu et Ludicro etiam quaestui adhibent Latrunculos nostris non omnino absimiles. Regius enim Calculus nunquam egreditur 4 Cellulas suo loco viciniores, sed neque Literati duo Regis Assessores. Regina carent. Alios porro duos habent Calculos non parum ingeniosos, quos ipsi pulveris bellici Lebetes vocant; ii Equos duos praeunt, et Pedites subsequuntur, qui in his duabus Cellulis una Cellula praecedunt. Incedit hic Calculus eo ferme modo quo Turriti nostrates Elephants inimici tamen Exercitus Ductorem Reegem non petit, nisi inter ipsum et Regem qui petitur, alius sit Calculus vel proprius vel Collusoris. Hinc fit ut tribus modis ictum vitare pssit Rex appetitus: primum exigua (ut ita loquar) corporis declinatione, et honesta fuga in proximam Cellulam seu Stationem: deinde oppositu alterius Calculi: postremo si penitus nudet latus, tum jubeat facessere Militem suum a quo tegebatur." Includes a diagram with the starting position. Hyde 1694: 163-164.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Genders Male
Source Hyde, Thomas. 1694. Mandragorias, seu Historia shahiludii, De ludis Orientalium libri primi pars prima, quæ est Latina.
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