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Yu Ren Dong wrote on Fri, Apr 13, 2012 04:55 PM UTC:
http://www.sach.gov.cn/tabid/985/InfoID/20301/Default.aspx

http://www.sach.gov.cn/Portals/0/ZT_2009/0907147004.jpg

The earliest Chinese Chess piece "Rook"  is found in Chongqing and said
made during Jin Dynasty (265–420).

Yu Ren Dong wrote on Fri, Apr 13, 2012 04:58 PM UTC:
http://www.sach.gov.cn/Portals/0/ZT_2009/gjjl090728/09gjjl09072867.jpg

重慶中國三峽博物館 Chongqing Zhongguo Sanxia Bowuguan

Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Fri, May 25, 2012 02:46 AM UTC:
so, what do we have here, chinese rook that predates chaturanga?

if you believe chaturanga date scholars give, hehe.

time to rewrite history books? (lol).

Yu Ren Dong wrote on Sat, May 26, 2012 08:34 AM UTC:
I think this only piece "ä¿¥" was made in Song Dynasty.

For my knowledge, each players' Rook of Chinese Chess  was both written 
as "車" (not "俥") in early  Northern Song Dynasty. Red player  Rook
was written as "ä¿¥" in Southern Song Dynasty in order to distinguish
each player's pieces on single-color printing book.

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