Ring Puzzles is a Chinese traditional folk intellectual entertaining art which has a long history for four-thousand years. Rumor has it, when metals were not founded, Ring Puzzles was made of jade. That¡¦s why, the another name of it is jade Puzzles.It also occurs in Chinese classical literature like Stratagems of the Warring States and Chuang Tzu.

In Hong Kong, the presence of two types of Ring Puzzles which are ¡§nine-linked rings¡¨ and ¡§crossing five passes and slaying six generals¡¨ brings sort of memories for the elderly.