We invented golf claims China
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news.com.au said:
We invented golf, says China
From correspondents in Hong Kong
www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18141950-13762,00.html
February 14, 2006
ANCIENT paintings allegedly proving the Chinese invented the game of golf 1000 years ago are to go on display in Hong Kong.
The pictures from the 13th and 14th centuries show Chinese noblemen hitting balls into holes with clubs that look remarkably similar to modern golf clubs.
The paintings will go on display in an exhibition titled Ancient Chinese Pastimes in Hong Kong's Heritage Museum from March to June, the South China Morning Post reported.
Golf is widely believed to have been invented by the Scots in the 15th century but some Chinese historians argue that the game was being played in China by the year 945.
They point to evidence of a game called "chuiwan" - "chui" meaning to hit and "wan" meaning ball - and say the game was taken to Europe by Mongolian travellers.
Chief curator of the Hong Kong museum Tom Ming said: "The game shown in these drawings is very similar to modern day golf. (This is) very strong evidence that we invented the game."
And there I was think it was the Germans all this time
Next Week: China publishes proof that they invented DNA, McDonalds, Ted Baker, Skinheads, Doc Martins, the MGB-GT & those little plastic things you get to stir your coffee with.
then again I might have made that up... apart from the stirrers, they could well be responsible for those, who knows, sure they will turn up in a 2000yr old painting some time soon
then again I might have made that up... apart from the stirrers, they could well be responsible for those, who knows, sure they will turn up in a 2000yr old painting some time soon
Marki said:
Ohh and they discovered North America
the little Devils
Actually the last time the Chinese president was visiting Australia he made a speech were he mentioned how Chinese fisherman had been going to Australia long before Europeans, settled, a subtle hint that they think they should probably own it
They seem to think they own Taiwan and Tibet as well but those who live there have different views.
They will land on the moon next and claim they were the first as well (well the american one was a hoax wasn't it?
) I see on the BBC they are also claiming their internet restrictions are no worse than western countries and that WE are hypocrites for criticising their censorship (maybe in a few years that will be true, but not right now)
Jaglover said:
Later on they will 'discover' the proof that the Chinese invented football, rugby and tennis as well.
Given the rather prickly nationalism of the Chinese I would take all such claims with a large pinch of salt.
Like gunpowder, climbing Everest or paper...
Gunpowder was probably an Arab invention, they certainly recorded the ingredients first, circa 1250. The Chinese didn't record all the ingredients until some time later. Gunpowder was certainly in use in Europe in the earlt 14th century. At every time that European gunpowder based technology was compared to Chinese it wasn't as good. The Chinese imperial court employed foreign experts to show then how to use it better at one point and in the Opium wars the British guns and rockets were decisively superior.
Everest. They tried to get the sherpas who went up there to claim that they had got there first. When the Sherpas refused to lie the Chinese tried to get them to say that they had got to the top at the same time as Hillary.
Modern paper may well be a Chinese invention but Papyrus, as an ancestor of modern paper, is far older than anything they have.
It's just a complex they have over Western inventions.
All the info you should need is Here
www.golf-information.info/golf-history.html
www.golf-information.info/asian-origin-of-golf.html
www.golf-information.info/golf-history.html
www.golf-information.info/asian-origin-of-golf.html
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