What characteristics of traditional Chinese culture are reflected in Chinese chess?

Chinese chess and traditional Chinese culture

In the past, people have reflected on the negative side of Chinese culture expressed by Chinese chess, but little has been said about the positive side of Chinese culture expressed by Chinese chess, which is not only detrimental to the image of Chinese chess, but also detrimental to the image of Chinese culture, and reveals the denial and indifference of some ignorant people to the traditional culture of China in the wake of the historical catastrophe.

Ancient Chinese soldiers emphasized "wisdom, faith, benevolence, courage and righteousness".

What is wisdom? First, the plan in the tent, the victory in a thousand miles away. "If the battle is not yet won by the temple count, get counted more; not yet won by the temple count, get counted less. More counting wins less counting, not to mention no counting! I thus see the victory or defeat." So, unlike Western Chess where the king can move around, Chinese Chess has the general sitting idly within the nine palaces. Secondly, in the evolution of ancient chess, the shi (士相), which was probably a partial general and therefore powerful, and the rook (车), which is pronounced the same as the Han official position of "General of the Rook and Cavalry", should be the name of the official position, not the chariot, and the bishop should be the name of the official position, not the chariot. The author guesses that the ancient Xiangqi should be invented in the Han Dynasty when Wang Mang was under a new government, and drove a hundred beasts to assist the battlefield, and created the ancient Xiangqi by imitating the hundred of those who knew the art of war as the generals, which was imitated by the good people) evolved into "Hou" in the Western Chess, and "Xiang" evolved into "Hou". The "bishop" evolved into the "missionary", while in Chinese chess, it became the strategist and the prime minister, showing the stereotype of Chinese culture that wisdom is superior to strength. Thirdly, each chess piece has eighteen skills, even pawns can be upgraded (so chess you have to prepare more than one piece in the side, and then add one more, otherwise, upgraded more, what do you take to change? Sincerely European aristocrats nonsense work), but sixty-four squares in thirty-two squares for the pawns, and the two sides of the same strength, although there is a skill, limited to the chain of pawns and other defense systems, but also can not show their fists, most of them in the redemption of the son of the exhaustion of the aftermath. In Chinese Chess, the big boys have a lot of space to move around, and they can move in and out of the game. Since both sides have equal strength, the kid is also an important yard on the scale of victory or defeat. Low players can use rooks and cannons, middle players make good use of knights and pawns, and experts make good use of soldiers and bishops. Ignorant and incompetent people often hate the horse crappy, phase blocking the eyes, the handicap of the gun without a frame. However, in the eyes of a master, the use of the wonderful, exists in the heart, the chess proverb: "pawns can control the horse, the sergeant can control the rook, the bishop can protect the son". The concept of "making the best use of everything and everyone's talents" in Chinese culture is clearly shown.

What is faith? For one thing, when the three armies face each other, the rooks and horses are the left and right armies, and the general sits in the center of the army, when the upper and lower armies live and die together***. Western chess in the evolution of the rules, the emergence of the "king rook position", the opening has not been, "king" has been hidden in a corner, before the war first cowardly. Chinese chess in the evolution of the grid into a point, line, increasing the river boundary, expanding the range of activities of the pieces, and the board a big, kill the veteran becomes difficult, so in order to facilitate the attack, although the Chinese veteran guns, firmly within the nine palace, to show that the kettle is broken, the heart of the battle. If the war first hide, pawns who are willing to sell their lives? Secondly, Shi Xiang surrounded, Shi did not leave the Nine Palace, chess, but the river boundary, dedicated to protect the Lord, loyalty and trust.

What is benevolence? Chess to the end of the game, although the big son all lost, but Shi Xiang full and a car, the pawns end game opposite smile, not to battle to a pawn of the tragic. The so-called "spare a man and spare a man".

What is righteousness and courage? In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, the pawns feel the general Wu Qi sucking sores of grace, foot not heel, died in battle in the array. The fact is that the people in the West are not the same as the people in the West, but the people in the West are not the same as the people in the West. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm going to be able to do it, and I'm going to be able to do it.

The other Western chess was formed in the feudal period of Europe, the concept of hierarchy is serious, the pieces have the difference between high and low, while the Chinese chess circulated in the city, the upper and lower equal, showing that the Chinese chess culture of the common people. Some ignorant people argue that Chinese chess has a strong hierarchical concept, I don't know where it comes from.

Another ignorant person said that "the higher the level of Chinese chess, the more incompetent", I am afraid that it is also a fallacy originated from the same period of time that "it is better to build an atomic bomb than to sell tea eggs". In modern enterprises, the role of management and technical personnel (white-collar workers) is self-evident. As mentioned earlier, Chinese chess is a game of fighting intelligence, not fighting strength, Shi Xiang is the symbol of the planners, a focus on knowledge, respect for cultural heritage, respect for talent of the nation to last thousands of years, proud of the East.