Weiqi originated in China and was called "Yi" in ancient China. It can be said that Weiqi is the originator of chess. Weiqi has a history of more than 4000 years. According to the pre-Qin classic Shi Ben, "Yao made Weiqi and was good at it". Zhang Hua in the Jin Dynasty inherited and developed this sentence in the Natural History: "Yao taught Go. Ruobai: Shun regards the son and business as fools and pretends to teach them. "
1964 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica adopted this statement, and even dated it as 2356 BC. The original game written by Pi Rixiu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, thinks that "the game must start from the Warring States period, and this way of cheating for falsehood is harmful. If it is done by vertical and horizontal players, it is Yao Zi. "
In the Ming Dynasty, Chen also put forward the potential truth of Go. According to legend, Yao is a courtier, and some people say that he is a courtier. Later, this statement was also recorded in Dong's Guang Zhi and He Zhi. Lin Yinglong of the Ming Dynasty believed that Go was successfully invented by Rong in "Love Record". According to the legend of the immortals, "Rong Chenggong claimed to be the teacher of the Yellow Emperor, and sought help from Zhou Muwang".
Weiqi is a strategic two-player chess game, which was called "Yi" in ancient China and "Weiqi" in the west. Popular in East Asian countries (China, Japan, Korea and North Korea), it belongs to one of the four major arts of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Weiqi originated in China and was handed down by Emperor Yao. It was recorded in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was introduced to Japan through Korea and then to European and American countries. Weiqi contains rich cultural connotations in China, which is the embodiment of China culture and civilization.