[Explanation] Tibetan chess has a long history and is very popular among the people. On August 19th, the first day of the "China·Lhasa Snowdon Festival", Tibetan chess performance became one of the highlights of the festival, and the people were immersed in the atmosphere of endless cultural activities of "chess".

　　[Concurrent] Ngawang Pemba, secretary general of the Tibet Autonomous Region Tibetan Chess Association and Tibetan chess expert

　　There are about 80 kinds of Tibetan chess. This is not what I said. This was discussed in this (meeting) with about 200 people at the National Tibetan Chess Seminar held in Lhasa in 2015. Today Here are 26 kinds.

　　[Explanation] As for the historical origin of Tibetan chess, the exact date has not yet been found. However, the unearthed Tibetan chess stone chessboards in Burang County, Zanda County, and Mozhugongka County, Lhasa, Tibet have a history of thousands of years.

　　[Concurrent] Ngawang Pemba, Secretary-General of Tibetan Chess Association of Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibetan Chess Expert

　　The stone chessboard of the Tibet Museum comes from the 6th century AD, under the site of the Qiangpa Minjiulin Temple in Jiamagou, the birthplace of King Songtsan Gampo. Another is that (in the 1980s) the state sent the Shaanxi scientific expedition team to the tombs of the Tibetan kings in Qiongjie County, Shannan. In the tombs, black and white chess pieces used by ancient Tibetans were found. After the detection of the means (discovery), there is a history of approximately 3,300 years.

　　[Explanation] It is reported that Tibet established China’s first provincial-level Tibetan Chess Association in 2016; in 2018, Tibetan chess was listed as an intangible cultural heritage of the Tibet Autonomous Region; in 2019, the "Measures for the Implementation of the Tibetan Chess Division Level System" Approved and promulgated.

　　Shang Tao, chairman of the Tibetan Chess Association of the Tibet Autonomous Region, introduced that Tibetan chess can cover a wide range of people of different ages, genders, and races. The association will continue to lay a solid foundation for Tibetan chess and gradually transform the Tibetan chess movement into competitive sports. The Tibetan chess team strives to participate in the games as an official team. To this end, the association will further strengthen the optimization, sorting and research of Tibetan chess.

　　[Concurrent] Shang Tao, Chairman of the Tibetan Chess Association of Tibet Autonomous Region

　　In 2019, we brought Tibetan chess to the 11th National Minority Traditional Sports Games of the People’s Republic of China. It was a performance event, but it opened the way for our chess to enter the official games of the National Games. basis.

　　[Explanation] It is reported that in Tibet, Tibetan chess has been popularized in more than 500 primary and secondary schools, communities, etc. There are about 100,000 Tibetan chess lovers, and the Tibetan chess culture has been effectively inherited and protected.

　　Reporter Gongsang Ram Jiang Feibo reporting from Lhasa, Tibet

Editor in charge: [Li Ji]