China culture contained in Weiqi.

The wisdom of Go also includes the change of natural phenomena, the strategy of the art of war and the way of governing the country. The ancients liked to regard the small chessboard as a battlefield. Ma Rong in the Han Dynasty said: "Look down on Go, the method is to use soldiers, and the three-foot game is the battlefield." Emperor Taizong was also elegant and good at Go. In his game with campus guests, the heroism of "one son will be the master of Kun" is even more talked about by future generations.

Weiqi board symbolizes the universe and consists of 360 celestial bodies, while Weiqi board is 19 times 19 vertical 36 1 chess point * * *, and the extra central point Tianyuan is Taiji, which represents the center of the universe. In the old calendar, the number of 360 items was the number of days in a year. Divide this into four corners: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Albinism and sunspots are day and night, thus symbolizing heaven and earth.

Judging from the black and white dot layout of the river map at the head of Zhouyi and the Luo Shu at the head of Zhouyi, Weiqi may also have some origin with them. It is said that the facial effect of Go is "Luo Shu", 36 1 intersection, 8 azimuth stars, 72 peripheral intersections corresponding to 360 days, eight diagrams and 72 phases. The chess pieces are oblate, convex on the top and flat on the bottom, divided into black and white, symbolizing yin and yang. The chess classics of the Northern and Southern Dynasties found in the stone chambers of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu Province also contain "361 pieces, imitating the degree of Sunday."

The ancients believed that Weiqi, Zhouyi, Hetu, Luoshu and Bagua were all cultures handed down to human beings by ancient gods. No wonder there is a folk saying that "this thing should only exist in the sky". Another example is "Li Xuan Man Yan": "The beginning of Go is an inhuman thing: it begins with the orange of Baqiong and begins with the tomb of Zhou Muwang; After the stone chamber, there is also Shangshan, which is the instrument of the fairy family. "

Weiqi has a simple form, only black and white pieces, and simple rules, but its mystery is incomparable to any other chess. Weiqi has only 36 1 chess points, but it changes endlessly. If you count the changes of a chess shape in one second, it will take hundreds of millions of years to count all the chess shapes. When Shen Kuo talked about the variables of Go in Meng Qian Bi Tan, he said, "There are about 43 words in a line, which is the number of chess games." It's 36 1 power, and 43 million here doesn't mean 430 thousand. So "there is no same game through the ages." Statement.

Some people say that China chess is Confucian chess. Weiqi is a Taoist chess. This metaphor is really a bit appropriate. A handsome chess player has his own rules and responsibilities. As Confucius said: "Jun Jun, minister, father, son."

What about Go? Black and white sons. There are no rules. It can be described as endless changes. One yin and one yang, all things are anti-polar, it is too late, the potential and the ground, thick and thin, defeating the enemy without fighting, and so on ... These principles are vividly interpreted on the chessboard.