Liubo
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Liubo was an ancient Chinese board game for two players. The rules have largely been lost, but it is believed that each player had six game pieces that were moved around the points of a square game bo
A pair of Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE) ceramic tomb figurines of two gentlemen playing liubo
Mural from an Eastern Han dynasty tomb at Luoyang, Henan showing a pair of Liubo players in the foreground, the player on the right with his right hand raised up as if about to throw down the six throwing sticks
Eastern Han glazed pottery tomb figurines playing Liubo, with six sticks laid out to the side of the game board
A lacquered Chinese liubo board game set excavated from Tomb No. 3 of Mawangdui site, Changsha, Hunan province, China, dated to the 2nd century BCE during the Western Han dynasty
TLV mirror
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"TLV mirror" is the name given by archeologists to a type of bronze mirror that was popular during the Han dynasty in China. They are called TLV mirrors because symbols resembling the Latin letters "T
Liubo
…have been several attempts to reconstruct the rules of the game, most notably by Lien-sheng Yang, who discusses the game as it was possibly played on TLV mirrors. Yang theorizes that a player's piece would start on an L-shaped mark and try to move to a V-shaped corner mark depending on the throw of the sticks…
TLV mirror from the Eastern Han period
TLV mirror from the Han dynasty