Chuywan

A painting depicting the game of Chuivang of Emperor Zhu Zhanji from the Ming Dynasty

Chuywan ( Chinese 捶 丸 - push the ball) is the nowadays extinct ball game that once existed in ancient China . Its rules resemble golf .

The Dongxuan Book (東 軒 錄), written by Wei Tai (c. 1050–1100) during the Song Dynasty , tells how a senior official of the South Tang era teaches his daughter how to make holes in the ground and how to hit them with the ball. ^[1] The game became popular in the Song Dynasty, and in the Yuan Dynasty , a book entitled Wang Ching (丸 经) was specially dedicated to it. The latest documents about Chuywan in China are two paintings of the Ming Dynasty of the 15th century. These are color images in the mural preserved on the walls of the temple of the God of Water in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province. ^[1] Some Chinese scholars, in particular Professor Lin Honglin, believe that this game was brought to Europe and then to Scotland by Mongolian travelers in the late Middle Ages . ^[2]