Introduction and detailed information of chess king

This story happened during the Cultural Revolution. The protagonist "I" successfully applied for going to the countryside. When he sat down on the train, he met a chess fan, Wang Yisheng. When everyone was sad because of parting, the chess nerd invited me to play chess. I was bored, so I played chess with him. It wasn't long before I gave up the idea that playing chess was inappropriate at this time, but Wang Yisheng had no choice but to soften up. During the trip, Wang Yisheng played chess or begged me to tell stories, and I met him in the process. After getting off the bus, they were assigned to different farms. Not long after, Wang Yisheng came to find his opponent, and "I" introduced him to the team's master eggs. Foot egg and Wang Yisheng played in the middle of the night but didn't win a game of chess, so they admired Wang Yisheng. He suggested that Wang Yisheng attend the sports meeting and meet the experts in the county, and Wang Yisheng readily agreed. However, when Wang Yisheng went to register, he was disqualified by the educated youth leaders because he often took time off to play chess everywhere. Wang Yisheng was asked to participate in the competition through his relationship, but Wang Yisheng refused because he didn't want to owe others a favor. After the sports meeting, Wang Yisheng invited the top three to compete with him. Everyone joined in the fun, and finally nine people played against Wang Yisheng at the same time. Wang Yisheng won eight of them after a hard struggle. The ninth chess player hoped that Wang Yisheng would give his old man a face draw and not let him lose face. Wang Yisheng reluctantly agreed. After the chess game, everyone helped Wang Yisheng back to his rest place.

Preface to the Catalogue of Chess Works

Chess king, tree king, children king, dinner party, smoke saving, fool sleeper stump turnover? Creation background In the early 1980s, the "innovative" power accumulated by the cutting-edge innovative forces in the literary world aimed at breaking away from the topic selection scope and writing mode of "seventeen-year literature" began to be released, and the innovation of creation and theoretical criticism appeared "* * *". Under such circumstances, with the encouragement of friends and colleagues, Acheng wrote down the story he told on the wine table. The novel was completed at the urging of his friend, and once published, it caused a sensation in the literary world.

Character introduction Wang Yisheng

Nicknamed "chess nerd", chess genius, fascinated by chess. "Eating" and "playing chess" are the few pursuits in his life, but they are not excessive. "Eating" is just for satiety, and "chess" is just for relieving worries.

"I"

The narrator of the story met Wang Yisheng, a chess fan, on the train to the countryside, who had a similar tragic family situation. Love reading.

Foot egg

The son of a rich family, whose real name is Ni Bin, speaks elegantly, but has a good personality. Because the feet are long, they are called "eggs" in the local dialect. Chess is good, but only for fun.

painter

Wang Yisheng, a friend I met in the county, is generous and helpful.

secretary

A friend of daddy's feet.

In the narration of the work appreciation theme "Chess King", "Plain Metaphysics" is quite appropriate and has a Taoist legacy. Acheng believes that in an era when there is almost no way out, if people can still enter the level of aesthetic pleasure and spiritual pleasure because of their skills, their spirit will be barren and they can be redeemed freely. This is the ancient style in Taoism and Zen forest, and it is leisurely and chaotic. It is Wang Yisheng's chess skill and the essence of Taoist philosophy to pay attention to creating momentum, turning weakness into weakness and governing by doing nothing. According to word of mouth, Wang Yisheng's chess is Taoist, which makes sense. In this way, Wang Yisheng's image is not lacking in foundation. Wang Yisheng was named "Chess Idiot", obsessed with chessboards all day long, ignorant of the world and inhuman. Whether it is the bonfire of factional conflict in the catastrophe, the fanaticism in series, the emotional parting before going to the countryside, and the internal injuries and foreign invasion in the wasted years, it seems that he has never stirred his inner peace. He has his own world-"leaving chess", staying in the fight of Chu River and Han Dynasty. In this way, his heart is comfortable, and he can forget the annoying struggle for rights and routes in the world, and forget the double harassment of spirit and material caused by this dispute. His heart is quiet, self-reflective, empty and vast, and he is quiet again. In that crazy era of "one word is worth 10,000 words", this indifference, this passivity of turning a blind eye and listening but not hearing, this detachment of wandering in "big and useless" is just a sober understanding and wisdom of turbulent reality, and a disguised struggle unwilling to go with the flow and noise.

Taoist philosophy pays attention to affirming positive value from the opposite side. The so-called "mourning its desires, but keeping its heart; That's what it means to be weak inside and strong inside From this point of view, Acheng's original intention was to write about Wang Yisheng's great wisdom and his extraordinary cleverness among his peers, but he deliberately highlighted his dementia and stupidity first. This is a wonderful truth that Taoist philosophy emphasizes the transformation and transcendence of opposites. Wang Yisheng's "Dull" reminds people of those literati who are full of mysterious interests, such as Ruan Ji Ji Kang's depression, Mi Fei's madness, Ni Zan's madness, Huang's madness and Li Bai's madness. They don't go with the flow, they don't conform to pollution, they are determined to become stronger, they have the same integrity, they have such a universal obsession that they are disabled. They don't regard art (chess is also an art) as a means to seek external utility, but as a kind of leisure and elegance to relieve troubles and relax body and mind. As the saying goes, "mortals are more sophisticated, more resourceful, more resourceful and less elegant." Therefore, people who stay and move away, crazy people, will be eager to gain fame, and his art will not work, although his works will not be elegant. " Professor Xu of Hong Kong New Asia College believes that the main body of China's traditional artistic spirit is Taoism, and the realm depicted by great painters, great painting theorists and great poets in history is often the realm of Zhuangzi and metaphysics. Zhuangzi's "Listen to the Spirit, Don't Listen" was unexpectedly introduced to the King of Chess all his life, and he entered the inner pivot of nature in the serenity of self-forgetting, and became one with it, but it is a fact. The reason why Wang Yisheng's chess skills can be "powerful first, then attacking people, sending dragons to control water and communicating with yin and yang" lies in his "putting his life into it", returning ethereal and calmly focusing. Acheng often skips the specific process of chess; However, it describes Wang's mental outlook of playing chess all his life very thoroughly. The wonderful description of Wang Yisheng's selfless state in the section "I give him water to drink" won the charm of Zhuangzi's "expert in solving cattle" and "leveling wheel".

In the narrative art Chess King, Acheng skillfully chooses the first-person narrative situation, that is, "I" is the secondary character in the story and the "witness" or "focus" of the whole story, but the vision of "I" can be more flexible and broad, and can talk about all kinds of characters in the story and flow directly with the protagonist. I met the hero Wang Yisheng by chance and became a close friend, from strange to familiar. Wang Yisheng's words and deeds and attitude towards life are gradually revealed through my deeper understanding of him. Of course, "I" can't see Wang Yisheng's inner activities, and can only lead readers into Wang Yisheng's inner world gradually with what I see, hear and feel. Wang Yisheng and I are in the relationship of knowing and being known, and it is also the comparative relationship between normal characters and abnormal characters. "I" is a mortal, with ordinary people's value orientation and code of conduct. My parents were killed in the turmoil, and I was alone. In order to make a living, I went to the countryside to jump in line and saw thousands of human scenes at the railway station. My heart is desolate, which is human. Wang Yisheng's sister came to see me off, but Wang Yisheng hid in the carriage and played chess. In Wang Yisheng's view, "go to a place where there is food", there is no need to cry. This is how strangers feel. There is a saying in Zhuangzi: "Zhuangzi's wife died, Hui Shi hanged it, and Zhuangzi sat in a drum basin and sang." Wang Yisheng is quite Zhuangzi's life realm.

Although "I" and Wang Yisheng have both experienced hunger, their understanding of eating is still different. I don't want to mention the past hunger experience, especially the details. I feel that these things are always eroding "me" and always seem to laugh at "my" ideal. "Eating alone is not only the need of the stomach, but also the need of the spirit. I don't know where the next meal will be, so people especially want to eat, and they are hungry quickly. " But Wang Yisheng bluntly pointed out: "That is greed, and greed is the characteristic of you people." In fact, the so-called greed problem is just a matter of desire. Just like the following article, on the farm that jumped the queue, although I was full, I was not satisfied with my life, no oil, no books and no movies. "There is a faint desire in my heart, which I can't say clearly, but I have a general understanding of being alive." Wang Yisheng believes that "people should be satisfied and every meal is a blessing", and it is enough to meet the things on the baseline. The article focuses on Wang Yisheng's eating habits: "He eats fast, his throat shrinks and his face is full of tendons. I often stop suddenly and carefully put rice grains and soup oil flowers in my mouth or chin with my whole index finger. If a grain of rice falls on your clothes, press it immediately and put it in your mouth. If one of them didn't hold it down and the rice fell off his clothes, he immediately stopped moving and turned to the upper body to look for it. After eating, he sucked up two chopsticks, filled the lunch box with water, first sucked up a layer of oil flowers on it, and then ate it with a look of safety on the other side. He is very religious and meticulous about eating. Sometimes you feel sorry for all the rice he eats. A bit inhuman. " There is no irony here. In Wang Yisheng's words, "I am mainly realistic about eating. As long as I have food to eat and meet basic material needs, it is enough. " Laozi once said: "The disaster is greater than dissatisfaction, and the blame is greater than desire. Therefore, the content is always enough. " It can be seen that Wang Yisheng's attitude towards eating is in the same strain as the spirit of Laozi and Zhuangzi. The third contrast is the understanding of chess. "I" don't know much about chess, but Wang Yisheng is a complete chess idiot. When he sees an opponent who can play chess, his eyes will glow. Once he starts playing chess, he can put aside outside interference. Especially in the wheel war, he fought against Jiugong. "Wang Yisheng sat alone in the middle of the big room, staring at us, putting his hands on his knees and casting a thin stump, as if nothing had happened." A high lightning secretly shone on his face, and his eyes sank deeply, looking down at the world and the vast universe in black. "Wang Yisheng is infatuated, tenacious and calm, and devoted his life to the ever-changing chess world. Even the old man who finally played chess with Wang Yisheng came to the conclusion that "China's chess is not decadent after all". The author eulogizes traditional culture and Taoism and Zen philosophy by playing chess. Acheng believes that culture covers society and restricts human beings. He created Taoist philosophy represented by Zhuang Chan in his works. The full text takes "I" as the narrator to reflect on Wang Yisheng's humanity, esophagus and chess skills, all of which are unified in "Tao", and the isomorphism with * * * has become his attitude towards life. He pursues spiritual purity and freedom. At that time, it was political chaos, economic depression, and people's lives were difficult, and even their basic survival needs could not be met. Regardless of whether Wang Yisheng's thoughts were negative or not, his thoughts and actions objectively constituted an alienation and transcendence of the social reality at that time.

Guo Yinxing (literary critic): "Chess King is very powerful and infectious in the practical significance of excavating the national spirit."

Chen Xiaoming (literary critic): "Chess king culture is the projection of the imagination of the times, but its narrative words have real kung fu."

Wang Meng (contemporary writer): "I haven't seen such writing, style and narrative style for a long time." "It is not the same as the popular pen and ink, but it is not uncommon."

Zhang Qi (Professor of South China Normal University): Chess King is also very effective in exploring narrative art ... there are many places worth learning. "

Sun Lijun (Professor, Guizhou Normal University): Chess King is a novel of' food culture'. "

Huang Fengzhu: "I think there is only the shell of Zen in Chess King, but it doesn't reflect the essence of Zen."

The influence of the work 1988, the film of the same name directed by Teng Wenji was released. ?

1991September 6th, the movie of the same name starring Tony Leung Ka Fai was released.

Author's brief introduction Acheng, a contemporary writer, formerly known as Zhong Acheng, was born in Beijing in 1949, and is a representative figure of "root-seeking literature". Senior one, interrupted his studies during the Cultural Revolution. 1968 was sent to Shanxi and Inner Mongolia to jump the queue, and then went to Yunnan Farm. 1983 Chess King published in Shanghai Literature made it famous in the literary world. Moved to America after 1990s.

Writer Acheng