"The King of Chess" - Acheng

Acheng, formerly known as Zhong Acheng, is a contemporary writer. "The King of Chess" is a short story by Ah Cheng. It is also Acheng's debut novel.

The story begins with the protagonist's life when he meets a nerd king on the train. When everyone says goodbye to their families on the train, the chess king invites the protagonist to play chess. The protagonist is also bored at this time, so he accepts to play chess with the nerd. On the occasion of the occasion, the carriage was noisy and noisy, all the scenes of farewell, not the time to play chess. So the protagonist put down the chess pieces, and Wang Shengsheng had no choice but to sit paralyzed in his seat. On the rest of the road, the chess king talked to the protagonist for a long time. That's when they got to know each other.

In the book, when the protagonist and Wang Shengsheng discussed the experience of hunger, I deeply felt that Wang Shengsheng was different from other people's ideas, and he knew more about satisfaction. Because of the harshness of his living conditions, his attitude towards life is completely different from others. Especially in eating, the protagonist feels that eating is a need for the stomach and a spiritual need. And Wang Shengsheng believes that it is gluttony, which is a characteristic of the protagonists and these people. To put it bluntly, it is a matter of desire. In the farm in the story, although the protagonist is full, he is not satisfied with life and wants more things. Wang's life was very different from this, he believed that it was enough to eat at once, to be content, to meet the basic needs of life.

The book focuses on the eating phase of Wang's life:

"Eating quickly, the throat knot shrinks and the face is full of tendons. He often stops suddenly and carefully smears the rice grains and soup oil flowers on his mouth or chin with his entire index finger into his mouth. If the grain of rice falls on the clothes, it is immediately pressed and thrown into the mouth. If one did not hold down, the rice grain fell from the clothes to the ground, he also immediately stopped moving his feet, turned his upper body to find, after eating, he sucked two chopsticks clean, took water to fill the lunch box, first sucked the upper layer of oil flowers, and then took a small sip with the look of safely reaching the other shore, he was religious to eat, and it was very delicate. Sometimes you'll pity the scum of those meals that he eats, and it's a bit inhumane. ”

Wang has been very practical about eating, as long as there is food to eat, he can fill his stomach, and he is already very satisfied. Wang was a complete chess nerd, once he played chess with others, he was deeply involved in it, not affected by any external factors at all, and used all his thoughts in the chess game, like a drunkard.

Now for us, most of the material conditions are already very rich. But the pressure is getting bigger and bigger, and the pursuit is also increasing. Maybe we don't know what we really want at all, and can only choose to be busy and chase life all the time. While we are busy, we try to discover our inner world and find our own spiritual world. We are now busy pursuing material conditions while letting go of the spiritual world and never picking it up. Even though the material conditions are now very rich, we are still not satisfied, as if we are never satisfied, and our desires are getting more and more. We should appropriately reduce our desires, only in this way will we be satisfied, and we will get more unexpected gains.