Chinese civilization has a long history, and the ancestors have left countless cultural relics to our people, which still affect the food, clothing, shelter and transportation of this countryman. However, in the past two years, some countries in the world have brazenly claimed that the intellectual property left by the ancients in our country is their own, which is really ridiculous and generous.
This country is South Korea, and the Dragon Boat Festival application two years ago made the world see their ugly face. As we all know, the Dragon Boat Festival was obviously set up to commemorate Qu Yuan, and they even said that Qu Yuan was also Korean. You know, during the Warring States period where Qu Yuan was located, Korea had not yet established a state, where did Qu Yuan say that he was a Korean? Despite all the fallacies and heresies, South Korea is still enjoying itself on the road of seizing the cultural heritage of our country, and it is simply fooling the whole world.
However, in recent years, another country has sprung up and has also begun to infect our traditional culture. This country is India, which is also an ancient civilization like our country. The object of their struggle is nothing else, but our traditional national chess.
There is no doubt that chess originated in China, and was first called elephant play, the Northern Song Dynasty Huang Supplement's "Guangxiang Drama Grid · Preface" has a cloud "elephant drama soldier play also, the battle of the Yellow Emperor, driving the beast to think of the array, elephant, beast of the male also." Therefore, the drama soldiers are named after the elephant plays. "It can be seen that chess appeared as early as the Three Emperors and Five Emperors.
Later, after the evolution and development of successive generations, especially during the Chu-Han War, chess began to become popular on a large scale in the folk. It is precisely because of the Chu-Han War that the chess board has the four big characters of Chu River and Han Jie.
In modern times, the famous British scholar Dr. Joseph Needham also demonstrated the relationship between chess and China in his book "History of Chinese Science and Culture". In his view, only the yin and yang theory prevailing in China could promote the birth of the prototype of chess, and divination with astronomical properties could be invented and then developed into a game with military significance.
So, on what grounds do Indians say chess is theirs? Because at the beginning of the last century, a board game called Chaturranka was unearthed in India, which is very close to China's chess.
According to the investigation and research of Indian archaeologists, Chaturanga, invented around the 4th century BC, is the originator of today's chess and Chinese chess. At that time, through the Silk Road, it evolved into chess when it spread to the West, and became Chinese chess when it spread to the East.
Of course, this is only the subjective speculation of Indian scholars, although Chaturanga is indeed the earliest chess game in the world, but there is no evidence that Chinese chess is derived from its variant.
Based on this, India has always insisted that chess originated in its own country, and has applied to the United Nations for the World Heritage List six times, but each time it has been rejected. However, India never gave up, and they also threatened that there would be a seventh time if the sixth time it was unsuccessful, until it succeeded!
And the reason why the United Nations rejected the Indians' application for the will is also simple and crude: "Do you know Chinese characters?" Chinese chess is full of Chinese characters, did you in India use Chinese characters thousands of years ago? “
Judging from the fact that Our country's cultural heritage has frequently allowed South Korea and India to apply for heritage in recent years, we are indeed not as concerned about the historical and cultural treasures of our own countries as other countries. After all, China is a country with a long history, and it is easy to be targeted and taken advantage of by a country with no historical background like South Korea.
Therefore, our people should strengthen their awareness of cultural protection and historical pride, and resolutely defend the historical and cultural assets belonging to our country; only when all the people pay attention to it, these acts of vain attempt to encroach on Chinese culture will be completely eliminated.