According to the Southern Dynasty", the Jin Dynasty King entered the Stone Chamber Mountain, watched the second boy play chess, and did not feel that the axe was rotten. "The quality returned to his hometown, he is a hundred years old, and there is no one who was there at that time." The legend of Rotten Ke has always been enjoyed by chess players, and the ancients had many poems about Rotten Ke, praising the cultural spirit in it. The reason for this is that there are many places that are connected with the connotations of Chinese culture.
In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Go was known as "sitting hidden" and "hand talking", which explained the cultural heritage contained in Go; to the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Huizong had a saying, "Forget the worries and Qingle in the chess", Go is also known as "forget the worries"; the legend of rotten Ke is circulated, and Go has more of the name of "rotten Ke".
Look at the story of Rotten Ke, from which you can savor sitting, hand talking, forgetting worries, and Rotten Ke. These four words are exactly where The spirit of Go culture and Chinese culture alludes. And the allusions used in sitting in hiding, hand talking, forgetting worries, and rotten Ke are all speech works of the two Jin Dynasties. Sitting in hiding and talking by hand are from "The Twenty-first Of the New Language of the World", "Forget Worries" is from the "Jin Shu Zu Di Biography", and Rotten Ke is from the "Zhilin" of the Jin people. This shows from the side that Go has been enshrined in the hall during that period, and it has improved qualitatively in theory and status, and has been widely circulated among those famous masters.
For the next two thousand years, Go began with this, and under the influence of the three, it has been passed on and carried forward its cultural spirit.
Go, in the minds of the Wei and Jin celebrities, is no longer just a game, but a philosophical activity, an enlightenment activity, and the game reflects their philosophy of life, and also expresses their metaphysical bitter and sad thinking.
The black and white sons of Go symbolize the sun, moon, yin and yang day and night, the round chess pieces symbolize the heavenly firmament, and the four corners of the chessboard can be compared to the four squares; the chess game fights, the vicissitudes of the sea and the mulberry field; the chessboard wins or loses, the world is disputed; and so on, all of which can imitate the world, lead people to understand the Tao, and taste the world.
The Buddhists talk about enlightenment, Go talks about feelings, and the chess theory and Buddhism are connected, and Go has become a hobby of Buddhist disciples. The word "hand talk" was named after the senior monk Zhi Daolin. The Buddhist sutra translator Kumarosh is also a master of this way, playing chess pays attention to beauty, is a Taoist school, plays chess with people, "picks up enemies and dead children, and the empty place is like a dragon and phoenix", which is comparable to the Japanese modern "aesthetic chess player" Otake hero. (See also in "Youyang Miscellaneous Compilation") When the chess theory and Zen theory are connected, and the realm reaches the high level, the two are interconnected.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, most Confucians were not as serious as their predecessors, and they treated Go more gently, Su Shi had clouds, "victory is gratifying, defeat can also be happy", telling the mystery of Go. Go, from a cultural point of view, is not to let people win or lose, but to gain momentum, to seek common ground, to understand the Tao.
Du Fu, Liu Yuxi, Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, Huang Tingjian, Lu Jiuyuan, Lu You, Dai Mingshi and other literati and Confucians also loved Go, and in their poems, they can often see words praising Go. For example, the old Fan Youshi poem "The worries of the world are worried and worried", "A son is expensive and thousands of dollars, and the road weighs thousands of miles." Thinking into God, can change Hu can be simulated? "Fan Zhongyan's Go literacy is very deep,
Go is the plaything of the literati and scholars, and although it contains the mechanism of heaven and earth, the Confucians still treat it with leisure. Although it is idle, because Go shows the style of a literati and a scholar, Confucians also like it. Go, in the imagery of the literati, is connected with cloud rain, curtains, rotten ke, qingshan, green water, red sleeves, bird language, calligraphy and painting, piano and so on, constituting the ink map of the ancient Chinese literati, rather than the pawns of the traffickers, constituting the map of the city.
The "Book of Chess" has a saying, "Those who hold heavy and honest have more gains, those who are easy and greedy lose more, those who do not argue and protect themselves win more, and those who kill but do not care about defeat." "Where is the chess game, it is clearly to teach people." You Dong of the Qing Dynasty also had a saying, "Try to look at the nineteen lines, and read the twenty-four histories." ”
Go has penetrated into all aspects of the Chinese cultural world, and there are shadows of Go everywhere, and there are mysteries everywhere. Among the rotten Ke, there is not a lack of ideals in the life of Chinese literati doctors. Life is like chess, there are advances and retreats; chess is like life, victory and defeat are common. Idle knocking chess pieces, a thousand years.