Chinese checkers finishers. The rules are simple, so even young children can play. Despite its name, the game is not a variation of checkers, nor did it originate in China or any part of Asia (whereas the game 象棋 "xiangqi", or "Chinese chess", is from China). The game was invented in Germany in 1892 under the name "Stern-Halma" as a variation of the older American game Halma. The "Stern" (German for "star") refers to the board's star shape (in contrast to the square board used in Halma). The name "Chinese Checkers" originated in the United States as a marketing scheme by Bill
Fish in Chinese mythology They are quite capable of swimming upstream and leaping over barriers in the water. Related to fish, some Chinese mythological motifs involve fishermen or fish baskets or a fish trap. According to Chinese myth, the culture hero Fuxi invented fishing, after the Great Flood (Eberhard, 1983:107). A story tells that first Fuxi fished with his hands, but after observing a spider catching insects in its web, he invented the rattan net and used it to catch fish, which skill he passed on to his descendents (Yang, 2005: 120). Jiang Ziya, the great general and strategist and military mastermind who was