Xu Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Leather (gé) Qian Kangxi Stroke Count: 24 Page 1392, Entry 29 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced qian. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Collection of Rhymes (Yunhui): Pronounced qian. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Qiuqian refers to a game involving ropes. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Qiuqian is a northern game used to train those who are light and agile. Restoration Compendium (Fugu bian) by Zhang You: The poet Gao Wuji wrote a Rhapsody on the Swing (Qiuqian fu). It was a rope game in the back garden of Emperor Wu of the Han. Originally it was called thousand autumns (qianqiu), a phrase used for wishing someone long life. The pronunciation was corrupted to autumn thousand (qiuqian). Later generations erroneously wrote it as swing (qiuqian).