"This is not about life and death, let alone about victory or defeat."
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Mr. Jin Yong likes Go, which may be related to his hometown --- Haining, Zhejiang.
In addition to Haining Chao, one of the "Four Absolutes in the World", poets such as Zhu Shuzhen, Zha Shenxing, and Xu Zhimo have also been produced here, as well as the two most cattle Go players in the Qing Dynasty---- Fan Xiping, who is "as tall as a dragon" and Shi Xiangxia, who is "as deep as the sea", and the two have left behind the magnificent and exquisite killing method of "Ten Games of Danghu", which is the highest peak of the Go game of the ancients.
In traditional culture, qinqi calligraphy and painting are called "four arts". The Qing dynasty you tong said: "If you look at the nineteen lines, it is better to read the twenty-four histories." "The small chessboard, derived from endless changes, has become the training ground of the soldier Haojie and the grinding stone of the literati and politicians."
In Mr. Jin Yong's martial arts novels, there are many Go masters: Wuyazi who created the Zhenlong chess game by himself, Kunlun Sansheng He Zudao who painted the ground as a chess, Black and White Zi who loved chess like a fool, Yanqing who killed decisively, Mu Sang who conceited his national hand, etc., the most wonderful depiction was the Zhenlong Battle in the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon".
"Zhenlong Chess Game" is a Go life and death problem, but also like a master key, opened the inner world of many masters, the book wrote: "This Zhenlong is changeable, different from person to person, money lovers because of greed and mistakes, irritable people by anger and bad things." Duan Yu's defeat was that his love was too heavy and he refused to abandon his son; Murong Fu's loss, because of his attachment to power and the courage to abandon his son, said that he would not lose power at all. The first hatred in Duan Yanqing's life was that after he was crippled, he had to abandon his own authentic martial arts and learn the evil arts of the left way of the side door, and when he was fully engrossed, the foreign demons invaded, and it was difficult to control his heart. ”
If you make a fool of yourself, you can unlock the "Zhenlong", which is lucky on the surface, but more importantly, at that moment, he has no concept of victory and defeat, and is beyond the chessboard. As his master, Master Xuannan, said: "This game of chess was originally entangled in victory and defeat, so that it was impossible to crack, and the virtual bamboo was not concerned with life and death, let alone victory or defeat, but instead broke through life and death and was liberated..."
Mr. Jin Yong used the "Zhenlong Chess Game" to explain the philosophy of the world: "When you are not caught in the chess game in front of you, the road ahead is the sea and the sky." ”
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Go has a history of more than 4,000 years.
Confucius wrote in the Analects. "Yang Goods" mentions: "Full of food all day, no effort, it is difficult!" No gamers? It's a great thing to do. (You've had enough to eat all day and have nothing to do, so you can play Go?) It's better than being in a daze. ）
Playing chess is one of the most common kinds of elegance in ancient China, and there are many celebrities who like to play chess, such as Cao Cao, Sima Yan, Xiao Yan, Sun Ce, Cao Zhang, Tan Daoji, Xie An, Wang Dao, Wang Jie, Wang Rong, Zhang Hua, Tao Hongjing, Zhi Shuo, Kumarosh, Zeng Guofan and so on.
During the Battle of Shuishui, a million Former Qin Xiong soldiers invaded the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the government and the opposition were shaken. The Eastern Jin commander Xie An played chess in the mountains. When the good news came, he said slowly, "Little children are big thieves." ”
Go can also be addicted, not only the black and white children in "Laughing proud of the jianghu", the Musang in "Book of Swords and Enmity" who love chess, even the emperors in history can't resist it.
Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasty, like an Internet addicted teenager, played chess all night and even shelved the government.
Emperor Tang Ming set up a special official position of "chess to be commanded": friends did not care whether he had gold or not, only whether he would play chess.
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, who did not like to lose chess and refused to let Liu Jing, a master of chess, was directly imprisoned.
Emperor Xuan of Han played a game of chess with Chen Sui, and after losing, he was directly promoted to taiyuan taishou, on the grounds that he was repaying gambling debts (paying bojin).
Mr. Jin Yong also loves Go and has also visited many famous teachers. He once said half proudly and half self-deprecatingly: "The go master Duan who has been worshipped in the world is the highest, and I am the one who is the highest." ”
In 2009, The chess saint Nie Weiping (also one of Jin Yong's Go masters) wrote an article: "Jin Yong has worshiped the master's go high-level position, there are more than 100 paragraphs, he has worshiped Wu Qingyuan, Lin Haifeng, Wang Licheng as teachers, in fact, people are masters, masters and apprentices, and master-grandson relationships, and the results are all messed up..."
Although there are many famous teachers, Mr. Jin Yong's chess strength is not high, Nie Qisheng once said: "Mr. Jin Yong's chess strength is roughly amateur 1 or slightly stronger." ”
In this way, reading this passage of "The Green Blood Sword" again may make us smile:
"Together with Go, the most important thing is understanding,...... Such a clever person as Su Dongpo, through historical articles, calligraphy, painting and poetry, all of them are incomprehensible, all are exquisite, but Go has never been able to play ordinary mediocre hands. It became a great regret in his life. He once had a poem that said: "Victory is glad to lose and joy", and posterity praised him for being broad-minded and not obsessed with victory or defeat. Do you know that the final gain and loss of Go, the dispute between one son and one place, must be calculated clearly and not relaxed, in order to win, such as always playing chess with the intention of "winning and being happy to lose", as a cultivation of sentiment, pastime, and happiness. However, it must be less "happy" and more "happy". "Mr. Jin Yong is borrowing Su Dongpo to self-deprecating."
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A friend asked Mr. Jin Yong, who is the most admired person in ancient and modern China and abroad? Jin Yong rushed out: "In the past, there was Fan Stupid, and now there is Wu Qingyuan." ”
In 1928, 14-year-old Go teenager Wu Qingyuan crossed to Japan and fought alone, creating a new layout of Go at the age of 20. On his own, he defeated seven of Japan's top seven chess players in the unprecedented Juban chess game: "Strange Boy Maru" Kitani Shigeru, "Battle Hero" Yan Kane Junichi, Fujisawa Kusuke, "Chess Immortal" Hashimoto Utaro, Kaoru Iwamoto, "Razor" Sakata Eio, "Old Fox" Hidekazu Takakawa, and beat all opponents to relegation.
This is the legend: chess saint Wu Qingyuan, let the world be the first.
Wu Qingyuan once said: "Winning or losing does not matter to me. It's not that you can win if you want to win, that's Go... All I wanted to do was commit myself to the flow of Go and let it drift, no matter where it stopped. ”
In Mr. Jin Yong's view, Wu Qingyuan was able to defeat all the masters of his generation (Jubanqi from 1939 to 1956) because of the amorphous style and ordinary heart of chess, and in his pen, Wu Qingyuan incarnated as Feng Qingyang (Xiao Ao Jianghu from 1967 and serialized in Ming Pao, completed in 1969). ）。
In "Smiling Proud of the Rivers and Lakes", Feng Qingyang said: "To cut meat, there must always be meat to cut; to chop wood, there must always be firewood to cut; the enemy wants to break your sword move, you must have a sword move to others to break it." An ordinary person who has never learned martial arts, took a sword and waved it wildly, no matter how knowledgeable you see it, you can't guess where his next sword will stab and where it will be slashed. Even a person with the most refined sword skills could not break his moves, just because there was no move, the word 'broken move' could not be discussed. It's just that people who have never learned martial arts, although they have no moves, will easily knock people down. The really superior swordplay is to be able to control people but never to be controlled by people. He picked up a dead man's leg bone on the ground, casually pointed one end at Ling Fox Chong, and said, "How do you break this trick of mine?" ”
There is another interesting thing about Jin Yong and Wu Qingyuan.
During the 2002 Guiyang Go Festival, someone interviewed Wu Qingyuan and asked, "Do you know the wind Qingyang?" ”
"I don't know."
"You know if I can do it?"
"Do you know Jin Yong?" (Mr. Jin Yong once worshiped Wu Qingyuan as a teacher.) ）
Old Master Wu Qingyuan still replied: "I don't know."
Afterwards, the Go player Jiang Zhujiujiu said that he should ask: "Do you know Mr. Cha?" ”
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In "Laughing Proud of the River", the black and white children use the chessboard as a shield and the chess pieces as a dark weapon.
And Ban Gu, in the "Yi Zhi", compares the chess game to the world's world, the square of the board is like the sky, the chess circle is like the ground, the nineteen roads are like a multitude of sentient beings, the fight is compromised, the human feelings are cold and warm, one step or willow dark flowers, or the abyss, or the conquest, or the siege of the city and the land.
For thousands of years, the existence of Go has transcended the simple way of gaming and become one of the mediums of traditional Chinese cultural inheritance.
In a word, chess is humanity, between black and white, it is both a river and a lake, but also a temple, both history and era, and we are all a pawn in the chess game of the times.
Appendix "Ten Tips of Go", by Wang Jisheng (Tang Dynasty National Hand)
One must not be greedy: there must be no victory in the eyes of doing things, but also overall consideration. The same is true for investment and life planning.
The second entry should be slow: in the process of the development of things, we must take it step by step, and we must not be too hasty! Falling in love, changing careers, changing jobs, and driving is not the case.
Three attacks and one's own: we must not only see the weaknesses of our opponents, but also take into account our own situation and know ourselves and know each other.
The four outcasts scramble to be the first: "Qisheng Zhenghe" is not only a chess way, but also a way of war, but also a way of being a man. Not stuck in the momentary gain and loss, just like the things around you, there are "urgent and important", "urgent and not important", "important but not urgent", "not important nor urgent", distinguish the priorities of all parts of life.
When faced with a decision to choose, we must give up some small things to ensure the advancement of a larger situation.
Six times of danger must be abandoned: in the face of danger, we must make a decision on the spot, and give up the burden at the first time, so do chess, investment, and business.
Seven cautions do not want to be fast: steady and steady to move forward slowly, do not be greedy.
The eight movements must be corresponding: development should be well planned, and each decision should be well judged.
Nine must be strong and self-preservation: The enemy is strong and we are weak, and the first task is to preserve our own strength.
Ten I weak sum: in the game process, if we have no hope of winning, then the draw is our best outcome.
Life is like a chess piece, go a look at three, can not be counted, can not be counted.