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SPORTS AND GAMES

Sports and games are a big part of life in the USA right. Well they are a big part of life in china too. Keep reading to find out some sports and games in china.

MARTIAL ARTS!

Have you ever heard of martial arts? Well it is very popular in china. People who do martial arts have known that training your body and not your mind is too a waste of time. A person who does martial arts trains to be the best person they can be, body and mind. China has a lot of types of martial arts. All martial arts types fall into one of two categories. Those categories are soft Extenal and hard Extenal. The most famous soft Extenal type of martial arts is Chi Chaun. For a while martial arts was a well kept secret in Asia but that all changed in the mid 1900s.

GAMES!!!

Games you love them right? Well games are a part of life in china. Did you know that the Chinese have a version of checkers that is played on a star shaped bored? Chinese checkers can be two, three, four, or six people. Xiang-qi is known in the west as Chinese chess. It’s a strategy game played since 700ce.ss

SPORT

S!!

Sports

you

love

them

right?

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chin

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CONCLUSIO

N

Now th

at y

ou read

abou

t Chin

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spor

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games

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fun.