What do you think of the board game？

For thousands of years，people have been planning attacks，captures，chases，and conquests in a variety of different board games.Most such games commonly involve hunts or war tactics，races or chases，capturing or blockading a fortress.There are folk entertainments that have evolved through the centuries，and they exhibit endless local variations.

These games have the fascinating similarities and differences that give each game its unique appeal as vital to a culture as music，dance and tale telling.Like other forms of entertainment，they do not singly give pleasure，they positively influence people’s morality，behavior and the way of thinking.New board games are invented almost daily and continue to attract new devotees and reveal new possibilities.

In China，board games have been long played in peoples’recreational life.

Along with zither playing，calligraphy and painting，board games constitute one of the four major forms of traditional Chinese art.In link with the Chinese tradition of rational culture，board games combine military strategies with philosophy，poetr and arts.They nurture wisdom，grace，generosity and a sense of indifference to the fame of winning or loss.Traditional games like weiqi（I-go）and xiangqi（Chinese chess）give rise to careful thought and enlightenment that expand infinitely.

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