Black and white are the colors of chess pieces, and it always reminds us of the world, the cycle of night and day, thinking of the white walls and blue tiles, white paper and black characters, black hair and white skin, black roads and white roads... It is said that life is like chess, the chessboard is a small universe, and the heavens and the earth are big chess games, which interprets the tragicomedy of life. Mr. Wolong lived in seclusion in Nanyang and chanted:
Zhuge Liang, who is a good chess player, laid black and white between heaven and earth, and the black and white chess also showed his ambition and heart. Here is the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, in the noise of people, "Wuyi Lane" quietly guards here, guarding a trace of loneliness, a tranquility. "Wild grass flowers by the Suzaku Bridge, the sunset at the mouth of Wuyi Lane." I think about how many heroes Haojie once had in this "Wang Xie Ancient Residence". Wang Dao, Xie An, Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi, Xie Lingyun, Xie Shuo... They either go out and enter the picture, or walk the dragon and snake on the silk paper, and send happiness and nostalgia in the landscape, "Wang Family Calligraphy Xie Family Poem", which just embodies the style of the wuyi disciples. Of course, the most talked about is xie an's good story of commanding the battle of Shuishui, talking with his hands and calmly retreating from the enemy.
Moreover, it is said that former Qin Zhijian led a million troops into Shuishui, and the Beijing division was terrified. Emperor Jin enfeoffed Xie An as the governor of Dadu. The black clouds pressed the city, and the wind sounded, but Xie An ordered to go out on an outing. For a while, Xie An and Zhang Xuan gambled on the villa with chess. Xie An usually could not play chess with Zhang Xuan, and on this day General Zhang was uneasy, and as a result, he was defeated. Xie An was leisurely on the mountain, enjoying the excellent scenery, returning very late, and then calmly guiding the commander, so on...
When Xie Xuan and others led an army to meet the enemy, Xie Gong was playing chess with others. After a while, a report of victory came from the front, and Xie An took a look at it, silent, and the chess shot was not wrong. The guest asked about the battle situation and replied: "The little children are big thieves." "The look and demeanor are not unusual.
Chess is the voice of the heart. Xie An's move to retreat from the enemy has become a symbol of a certain character and a certain spiritual power. On the lintel of the "Wang Xie Ancient Residence", there are several large characters written: "Wei Jin demeanor". "Wei Jin demeanor" pays attention to people's spirit, character, and temperament. "Jiangdong quan leaned on Xie Jia'an, and Ya Liang described the game room." Xie An is not only a famous soldier, has the ambition of gao shi seclusion, has his own scenery on chess, and is also a Confucian general, killing the enemy in front of the battle and turning the tide against the fall. Governing the country and the country and calmly playing against each other represents the ideal image in the minds of Chinese.
Of course, in that era, the stories of heroes were sometimes tinged with tragedy. Not far from the Qinhuai River, there is Mochou Lake Park, where the famous Shengqi Building is located. Legend has it that Zhu Yuanzhang often played against Xu Da, who was obviously a chess player and always deliberately lost a little for the sake of the emperor's face. Once, Zhu Yuanzhang summoned Xu Da to play a game on the shore of Mochou Lake outside the Three Mountains Gate of Nanjing, and promised that if Xu Da could win, he would reward him with this lake. After a round, Zhu Yuanzhang lost, and his face was sullen. Xu Da hurriedly knelt down and said, "Long live, for the sins of the courtiers deserve to die, please watch the chess game again." Zhu Yuanzhang took a look, only to see that the situation on the plate showed the words "Wan Yan". Zhu Yuanzhang turned his anger into joy, rewarded Mochou Lake to Xu Da, and passed it on the purpose of building a building on the lakeside, named it "Shengqi Building", and gave a couplet: "Smoke and rain rivers and mountains six dynasties dream, heroes and children a chess piece."
Being able to swing at will on the chessboard and write down such a complex "ten thousand and one thousand" can be imagined to be the big difference in chess strength between the two. Xu Da won both chess, lou, and compliments the emperor, looking like the best of both worlds. However, daring to fight for the emperor is certainly a "hero", but the hero who succeeded for a while, in that era of authoritarianism, never had a good end. "The one who wins my chess today, the one who takes my world tomorrow." The famous words of the saint also determined Xu Da's final tragic fate, saying that the chess game was like a game in the world, but sometimes, this game won the other "game" that is, it lost. There is a way: Hiromoto has no worries, laughing at the south and rising up in the crowd, not a beautiful person who moves alone; how can the chess be won, mistakenly throw a son for the north province, and teach this game to lose all. Xu Da was deliberate, but he made a big defeat in his life, which is the so-called victory or defeat and loss.
"The pink daisy rivers and mountains are half a lake of smoke and rain, and the prince's career is like a chess game." This couplet written by Mr. Itabashi in front of the Shengqi Building fulfills the rise and fall of history. However, in the stories of these heroes, chess is only a prop, an embellishment. In real life, there is indeed a group of chess players, who rely on their skills to break through the rivers and lakes to make a living from chess, and they constitute the ancient class of professional chess players. These people are often in their childhood, because of some kind of chance, learn a good hand of chess, and gradually have no opponents in their hometown, so they have the heart to travel. Fight the world with chess, break into a piece of land in the competition of the chess world, make a name for yourself, and make a living from chess. Just like that Liu Zhongfu, a native of Jiangxi, practiced a good chess hand. Come to Lin'an and hang a sign in his residence: Liu Zhongfu, a chess player in Jiangnan, bless the world to play chess. And three hundred taels of silver were given as the winnings. After a while, the spectators were blocked, and ten, ten, ten hundred, spread throughout the entire Lin'an City. Liu Zhongfu showed his style on the chessboard, and the audience finally convinced him, hospitality for more than ten days, and prepared a generous gift to send him off. Liu Zhongfu also got his wish, went north to Beijing, and finally became a Hanlin chess player.
However, in ancient China, when a certain "art" became a profession, and the practitioner became a "skilled disciple", the status declined sharply. At the same time, the literati regard chess as a hobby, a kind of elegance, a kind of pleasure, just like they are good at silk, paper, and pen and snake. Literati are often inferior to people, simply look down on victory and defeat, so chess has the difference between literati chess and chess chess, chess chess to win or lose for the purpose, but the literati more chess as a way of spiritual existence. Su Dongpo once claimed that "there are three inferior people in life: playing chess, drinking, and singing." However, it is precisely because of this inferiority that he has superior understanding. In Dongpo's view, life is just to send love with wine and borrow wine to have fun. Dongpo Yu Go is also only rough, claiming to be "unintelligible chess". One day, when he was swimming in the White Crane Temple in Lushan Mountain, he heard the sound of chess pieces between the ancient pines and flowing waters, and "gladly rejoiced." His son Su Guo played chess with people, and he sat and watched it, but he did not get tired of it, and wrote the poem "Guan Qi" to remember it:
Just as the so-called innings are competing, it is better to take a back view, "victory is gratifying, and defeat can also be happy." Those who drink alcohol and play chess and can reach the realm of Dongpo are "close to the road". Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou, cultivated Longmu, and then took the eastern slope to himself. While standing on the chibi and chanting "The great river goes east, the waves exhaust the ancient winds and currents", while drinking and singing in the sleeping immortal pavilion, sleeping soundly, or driving a flat boat leaf, talking with the monks at the Yuquan Temple on the other side of the river. Spring breeze is proud of horseshoe disease, always a big happy thing in life. But reality often makes people want to win and can't, depressed, for no reason, simply take a step back and wide, to chess and wine to find a free.