Among the ancient Chinese sports and games, the chuiwan (literally means "ball hits") which was a game in ancient China whose rules resemble modern golf.
The game was made popular by the Song dynasty, and a play called Wan Jing from the Yuan dynasty was specially dedicated to the Emperor's daughter. The last documents on the chuiwan in China are from the two Ming Dynasty paintings from the 15th century.
There is a color image of the wall painting preserved on the wall of a temple of the water god in Hongdong, Shanxi. A Chinese scholar suggested that the game was exported to Europe and Scotland by Mongolian travelers in the late Middle Ages.
This ball, whose original name was Chuiwan, is part of a game in which participants score if they manage to get the ball into a hole in the ground and is derived from an even older game called cuju.
And how was it played? First a base was drawn on the ground and a few holes had to be dug a few dozen or hundreds of steps from the base, placing colored flags on them to mark them.
So the players had to hit the ball to get it into the holes to get points. The rules allowed two to more people to play and it is quite similar to modern golf.
