Who invented China chess?

It is an indisputable fact that chess was invented by us in China, just as the four great inventions were China's masterpieces. However, William Jones, an Englishman, made an unintentional remark. He said that chess was named after elephants, and there were elephants in chess. Elephants were not produced in ancient China, but in India. Therefore, experts in elephant history lost some confidence in the origin of China because they couldn't figure out several key issues for a while. Fortunately, facts are facts after all. Now archaeological excavations have confirmed that there were elephants in ancient China. Naturally, Mr. William Jones's "remarks" will be broken. Today, although the birthplace of chess is locked in China or India, there are still different opinions on whether it is China or India. In recent years, a series of major breakthroughs have been made in human life sciences, and scientists have published the human genome map for the first time, which means that mankind has taken a solid step on the road to solving the mystery of life. This also brings beneficial enlightenment to the current research work of chess history: the research of chess history can also engage in "genetic engineering", and carefully analyze some heritability of the current chess-there must be some information about its origin in the current chess! Once this information is captured, the mystery of the origin of chess is not difficult to uncover. Our predecessors thought that chess developed from Bo, but Bo was invented by the Yellow Emperor. This view is mentioned in the preface of China Ancient Chess Manual, Secret Records of Chess Manual, Strategy and Wide Deep Sea. In particular, the preface written by Liang, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, for Deep Sea Wide clearly introduced a mainstream saying at that time: "Wenxi Emperor Yao plays Weiqi, which is called chess according to the degree of Sunday; Huangdi cut Chiyou for Bo; Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered the world and changed his name to chess. " Although the above statement is supported by historical documents such as Qu Yuan's Songs of Chu, Liu Xiang's Stories in the Western Han Dynasty and Zhang Hua's Natural History in the Western Jin Dynasty, the long history of the source involved in chess is mistaken for a fairy tale by later generations (this is really our misfortune in China). Imagine that the Yellow Emperor was just a tribal leader of a clan in the late primitive society. At that time, when social productivity was very low, who could believe that the Yellow Emperor had so much leisure to make tools for fun during the war years? However, if we are connected with the "preparation" of "strategizing and winning thousands of miles away" and the Bo rules recorded in the Classic of Ancient Bo, then we will be suddenly enlightened: originally, the Yellow Emperor invented the production tool "Bo"-preparing for war. As the Natural History introduced, in the Xia Dynasty, after the emergence of the slave owners' aristocratic class, a courtier named Cao Wu invented the toy Bo and gave it to Xia Jie according to the operation method of the Yellow Emperor. At that time, the Yellow Emperor commanded only an army composed of a few fragmented tribal teams, lacking absolute authority, so he coordinated his own army by deciding the advance and retreat of an army by rolling dice at the alliance military democratic conference, so there were rules for playing chess by rolling dice in Cao Wu's chess game. As for the relevant provisions of the promotion of chess pieces to "owls", it only reflects a reward mechanism of the Yellow Emperor's army in wartime, which is the same as the agreement of "first entering Xianyang as king" concluded by Liu and Xiang before the Qin Dynasty was destroyed. So in the end, it is not wrong to say that the Yellow Emperor invented Bo. Two rules, that is, the roll of dice determines the movement of chess and the rise and fall of chess pieces, naturally become the basic characteristics of chess. In the later spread process, it evolved from "Bo" to "Sai", collectively known as "Bosai". The difference between them is that the person who rolls dice is called Bo, and the person who doesn't roll dice is called Sai. By the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the popularity of the tournament had become very common. "Zhuangzi Qing Thumb" says: "Zang and Gu both graze the sheep and the sheep die. Ask zang, then carry? K reading; When you ask about Gu Xi, Bosai must do it. " Gu was so addicted to playing soccer that he lost his sheep. It can be seen that these chess games were deeply rooted in the hearts of the people at that time. So why did Emperor Wu of Zhou change his name to Chess King? There can only be one answer, which is the result of social development. With the development of productive forces, the Shang dynasty had a full-time army, and by the end of the Shang dynasty, different arms were divided in the army. Cheng Hao's poem "There are still Zhou Tactics in chariots and horses" tells us that Emperor Wu of Zhou used two relatively new arms, "chariots" and "horses", which played a great role in the war against Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Then, after winning the world, when the princes of Emperor Wu of Zhou beat Bo, they were likely to happily add two arms of "car" and "horse" to Bo to praise the invincible power of Zhou Tian's words. In this way, a new type of bo opera has emerged, which is different from the old bo opera in that it is diverse (the original bo opera is one-armed). Of course, Emperor Wu of Zhou felt that this new play was his own patent.