Editing Chess in early literature (section)

==China==

79 BC – 8 BC – lifetime of Liu Xiang 劉 向, who wrote ''Shuo yuan'', a compilation of early Confucian anecdotes:  "''Do you still feel like playing xiangqi and dancing?''".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Meng Changjun Played Xiangqi and Danced with Lady Zheng |url=http://www.yutopian.com/chinesechess/stories/meng.html |access-date=2024-11-07 |website=www.yutopian.com}}</ref> The rules of the game are not described in this text, so the ambiguity regarding which game it refers to is unresolved. "[[Xiangqi]]", apart from being the name of the [[chess variant]] played in China, has also been the name of two other unrelated games, and there is no scholarly consensus about it being a precursor to [[Chaturanga]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Murray |first=H.J.R |title=A History Of Chess |publisher=Clarendon Press |year=1913 |pages=122}}</ref>

c. 900 AD – '''''Huan Kwai Lu''''' (''Book of Marvels'')
Describes the rules of xiangqi.