As the essence of China, The relationship between Go and Yangzhou is very close, Yangzhou can be described as an important town in the history of the development of Chinese Go, yangzhou has appeared in the history of many famous Go players, many famous historical figures in Yangzhou's activities involve Go, many famous Go works and Yangzhou have inseparable origins.
"Forget The Sorrows and Clear Music Collection"
Guangling Ancient Books published the Shadow Song Periodicals
In the ancient chinese score of Go, the Song Ben "Forgetting Worries Qingle Collection" is the earliest surviving engraved Go monograph in China, compiled by Li Yimin of the Imperial Academy, and named after the verse "Forget Worry Qingle in Qiqi" by Emperor Huizong of Song. The book contains the Thirteen Chapters of the Book of Chess and famous games from previous dynasties of the Song Dynasty.
Modern publisher Nanling Xu Naichang's "Jade Begonia Series" copied the Song Ben, re-carved the "Forgetting Worries and Qingle Collection", and the whole book was engraved and censored, which gave a glimpse of the Style of the Song Edition. At the end of the book, there is an article written by the Qing bibliophile Huang Pilie, which records the circulation of the version of the book, which is now in the Yangzhou China Engraving and Printing Museum.
In June 2013, the Guangling Ancient Books Engraving and Printing Society rearranged the book and photocopied it for the world, and this set of photo-Song periodicals "Forget Worry qingle collection" realistically reproduced the style of the Song version, with high appreciation, research and collection value. Players who came to participate in the 2013 National Go Stage Competition competed to buy the collection.
《Example of Chess Diagram Righteousness》
Seo Hyun boldly reformed Go tactics
Xu Xuan, an outstanding philologist and calligrapher of the Song Dynasty, was also an accomplished Go theorist, and authored works on Go theory such as "Examples of Chess Diagrams", "Nine Innings of Jingu garden", and "Chess Posture". His "Example of Chess Diagrams" can be said to be the first book in the history of Go in China to comprehensively study Go tactics.
Xu Xuan's major contributions to Go theory are mainly reflected in two aspects: First, he summarized the various terms and various moves in the actual combat of Go at that time into more than thirty kinds, such as "standing", "flying", "point", "sticky", "guan", "punch", "break", "top", "point", "punch", "clamp" and other terms, which have been used to this day; second, he creatively named the nineteen lines on the Go board, namely "one day, two places, three inches (three talents), four hours, five elements, six officials (six palaces), seven buckets, Bafang, Kyushu, 10th, 11th Winter, December, 13th Leap, 14th Pheasant, 15th Lookout, 16th Phase, 17th Star, 18th Pine, Nineteenth Guest. ", instead of the ancient method of dividing the four corners of the flat, up, going, and entering, mixed and difficult to distinguish. This innovation has greatly facilitated people's record and memory of chess scores, and has played a very important role in the circulation of chess scores and the popularization of Go.
Yi Wei
Ming Dynasty Fang Zizhen's Go writings
Fang Zizhen was a Go master in Yangzhou in the Ming Dynasty, and he compiled a Go book of "Yiwei", but unfortunately it has long ceased to exist, and what exactly is recorded in "Yiwei" is unknown today.
However, in the notes of Li Weizhen, the second year of Ming Longqing, the reporter found a "Yi Wei Sequence" written by Li, which can understand the general content of this Go work: "Fang became famous in Jiangnan, and then went to Beijing, transferred from Yi to Qingyuan. Later, Fang Yu was so disgusted with Yi that he traveled to escape the game, met Mi Wanzhong (Zhongzhao) in Tongliang, Sichuan, and listened to his persuasion and wrote "Yi Wei". ”
In the Ming Dynasty Go world, celebrities and national players continued to emerge, and at that time, Yangzhou also produced a Go master Fang Weijin. Fang Wei Jin Zi Zhen. The Chronicle of Jiangdu County calls Fang Weijin "a spirit of divine understanding". It should be said that on the one hand, fang young people have become talented, and on the other hand, they are the inevitable result of hard work. When he was a child in private school, his fascination with Go was so drunk that he laid out calculations under his desk every day, and by the age of thirteen he was invincible in the world. Li Pu, a representative figure of the Jingshi sect who is known as "the first product in the world", passed through Yangzhou and became entangled with the talented teenager. In the first set, Li only won one son, and in the second set, it was Fang Zizhen's turn to sing high. Shi Ren was puzzled by Fang Zizhen's little boy's means, thinking that he had received Xian help, so he perfunctorily came up with a story of Fang Zizhen learning chess exactly like Zhang Liangbaishi, and the story location was in Qionghuaguan.
"Yi Li Zhi Gui"
Shi Xiangxia lived in Yangzhou to write chess
Yili Zhigui is a famous Go book score, written by Shi Xiangxia, a generation of national players during the Qing Dynasty, and "Peach Blossom Spring Yi Score" written by Fan Xiping in the Qing Dynasty, and is called a model work in ancient chess scores.
Jiang Zhixin, a first-class referee of the Municipal Chess Association, said that Shi Xiangxia, a chess saint, had a deep relationship with Yangzhou, and when he was 43 years old, he traveled to Yangzhou, and Lu Jian, who was then the envoy of the two Huai salt transports, invited him to the bureau, and he was accompanied by famous players Huang and Lu Jiaoyi. When Shi Xiangxia was 50 years old, he lived in Yangzhou for several years, teaching his disciples while writing the Go book "Yili Zhigui". In the twenty-eighth year of Qianlong (1763), the Yili Zhigui was completed, and Lu Jian wrote the preface to the Yili Zhigui and published it for the first time in Yangzhou.
The book begins with the "Five-Element Layout" chess diagram twenty-four forms. In addition, there are also drawings such as "Five Elements Source Ao" and "Bagua Yuanwei" to mark the direction of the chess game. The five-element phase theory is used in the notes of the song to explain the Go move, which means Xuan'ao. According to the content, the whole book is divided into eight parts: "small invasion", "Guan Fei sealing angle", "forcing the border control", "dismantling the customs and forcing the border", "closing the town to make the orphan", "dismantling the second", "sealing the town and sealing the guan", and "double flying yan". Later, after being sorted out and deleted by Qian Changze in the Qing Dynasty, chess diagrams were added and adapted into a three-volume "Yili ZhiguiTu".
《Peach Blossom Springs Game Score》
It is named after the famous peach blossom spring in Yangzhou
Fan Xiping's "Peach Blossom Spring Yi Score" is one of the most influential and valuable ancient Go scores in China's history. The book "Jia Jia Unique Creation, Not Raiding the Former Sages" is extremely rich and comprehensive, and incisively records Fan Xiping's unique views on Go. As soon as this book was published, it became a sensation in the chess world, became popular for a while, and later re-engraved many editions, and influenced countless chess players for 200 years.
In his later years, Fan Xiping lived in Yangzhou, and during Fan Xiping's residence, the student Bian Wenheng brought Shi Xiangxia's new book "Yili Zhigui" to ask Fan Xiping for advice. Fan according to the book of chess, with new ideas, wrote into two volumes of chess scores. "Peach Blossom Spring Yi Spectrum" was written in the thirtieth year of Qianlong (1765), Yangzhou Salt Transport Shi Gaoheng in order to attach the name of Ji Zhang, specially named the official office of the ancient well "Peach Blossom Spring", and used the public funds in the office to print this book, thus having this famous "Peach Blossom Spring Yi Spectrum".
The ancient well "Peach Blossom Spring" was on the campus of the former Xinhua Middle School near the Imperial Palace, but this well no longer exists. Deng Yuanyong said in the preface to the "Peach Blossom Spring Yi Spectrum": "The peach blossom spring person, the name of the well is also signed. The name is based on the land, and the people know it. Lai Youlin Qingjian Ting's "Hongxue Karma Map", remembered also. ”
《Meal Juju Sai Chess Review》
Zhou Ding, the late Qing dynasty player, commented on the selection of the game
In the eleventh year of Tongzhi (1872), the Commentary on the Chess of The Meal Ju Zhai was published in the Yangzhou Stringless Piano Room, and together with the "Jianshantang Yi Score" compiled by Xu Xingyou in the early Qing Dynasty, it was called the two major commentaries of the Qing Dynasty. The "Meal JuJu Zhai Chess Review" collects twenty-seven games of chess, all of which are matches at that time, and each game has a detailed review.
Zhou Xiaosong, Mingding, a native of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. Mr. Li Yaodong's "History of Chinese Go" evaluates Zhou Xiaosong as "the first-class gamer in the late Qing Dynasty", and Zhou Xiaosong traveled to the north and south of the great river, covering Beijing, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Guangdong and other places. The well-known chess players of the late Qing Dynasty were mostly proud of their divisions.
"Commentary on the Chess of The Meal Ju Zhai" is a work compiled by Zhou Xiaosong in his later years, he selected 27 games of game scores from thousands of actual battles, and each game of chess was accompanied by detailed and exquisite commentaries. For example, when evaluating the four players of Pan Xingjian, Ren Weinan, Jin Qiulin, and Shen Ligong, he said: "The four kings are all famous players at one time, although the chess paths are different, they are all good. However, it is inevitable that there will be a mistake in a thousand worries, and it is necessary to seek righteousness to the right, not to be tired of asking for trouble, and it is not good to covet the ancestors. ”
In addition to the "Commentary on the Chess of The Meal Ju Zhai", Zhou Xiaosong also has "Anhui Youyi" and other Go works. In the fourth year of the Republic of China, the famous Go players Wu Xianglu and Huang Yingxian edited and published the "Zhou Xiaosong Zi Zi Spectrum", which contains Zhou Xiaosong's classic games. The Yangzhou Municipal Library holds this book.
"Waiting for the Moon"
Salt transport envoy Fang Maoyi selected the game
During the Tongzhi dynasty, Fang Haoyi, who served as an envoy for salt transportation, liked to play Go. Fang Liyi has been in cahoots with many Go masters. According to his own account, xu Yaowen, a national player, came to Yangzhou to play against him, and at the beginning Xu let Fang's four sons, eight rounds a day, and after three days, they were reduced to two sons, and then twenty days, "actually competed against each other." Fang Maoyi later compiled the game into "Waiting for the Moon to Be Yi Cun", which was jointly known as "Three Compilations of Chess Scores" together with "Shushan Caotang Yi Cun" and "Anhui You Yi Cui". In addition, Zhou Xiaosong's chess scores in his later years, "Shushan Caotang Yicun" and "Anhui Youyi", were also published by Fang Maoyi.
Fang Not only published three chess scores, but also left a lot of precious information about the national players of Go for future generations. He wrote orderly texts for both the "Waiting Moon Yicun" and "Anhui Youyi Extract", which contain important information from many chess players in the late Qing Dynasty. The saying that the longevity chess monk Qiu Hang "died in his nineties" and "took Zen as a daily lesson" is derived from his preface. The chess monk Qiu Hang is worth mentioning, he is also an Yizheng person, one of the eighteen national hands of the late Qing Dynasty.
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