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						<p><font size="-1" color="black" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Female Figures - detail of soccer<br>
								Du Jin </font><font size="-0" color="black" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">杜堇 </font><font size="-1" color="black" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(painted late 15th to early 16th centuries).<br>
							</font><font size="-1" color="black" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Women (and men) played games to keep fit and pass the time.  You might have been surprised by.<br>
							</font><font size="-1" color="black" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">the first section of this painting showing field hockey, but both field hockey and soccer - with rule variations.<br>
								had been played in China and throughout the ancient world for thousands of years.  According to <a href="http://worldsoccer.about.com/cs/historyandstats/a/sochistart.htm" target="_blank">Alan Hylands</a>, the <br>
								Chinese invented soccer during the early Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD), as a means to keep fit. <br>
								The scroll dates from the Ming period. </font></p>
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