People's interests often change throughout their lives. Take me for example. I used to have many interests, but I have changed them. Only go will remain unchanged for life. So, I joked with people and said, "Go is more reliable than my wife. It won't change your mind, and you can't get rid of it. It is your lifelong companion. "
From ancient times to the present, emperors, celebrities and literati all like to play Go. There is hardly an emperor in China who doesn't like playing Go. From Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang to the Three Kingdoms Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang, Sun Quan, Sun Jian and Sun Ce, almost all of them are Go lovers. Cao Cao is a first-class Weiqi player, and most of his 25 children can play Weiqi.
There is a famous story that Cao Pi, the son of Cao Cao, killed his younger brother Cao Zhang in order to seize the inheritance. Cao Zhang was particularly brave and good at fighting. Cao Cao admired him and said, "Zhang Er is really a pillar of talent." After Cao Cao's death, Xelloss invited Cao Zhang to play chess, with a plate of dates beside him, so that he could eat dates while playing chess. Cao Zhang foolishly ate all the poisonous dates, played a game of chess and died. This is a particularly touching tragic story.
There are stories about Guan Yunchang's bone scraping and healing in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the last battle, all of which are related to Go. Tang Taizong, Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei also like to play Weiqi, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is also a Weiqi enthusiast. Zhu Yuanzhang banned people all over the country from playing Weiqi, for fear that they would lose heart in playthings, but he himself played Weiqi all over the world. The sacristy building in Xuanwu Lake is the place where Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da play chess. People such as Du Like Fu, Du Mu, Bai Juyi, Liu Yuxi, Han Yu, Li Shangyin and Lu You also like to play Go. Su Dongpo wrote many poems about Weiqi, among which "I like winning and losing" is a free and easy attitude towards winning and losing, which is widely quoted by later generations.
Mao Zedong used to be a Weiqi enthusiast, and many of his works used Weiqi tactics, which was mentioned many times in On the Protracted War and Strategic Issues of China Revolutionary War. So he played chess with Commander Zhu in Jinggangshan, and the Red Army soldiers carved a chessboard for him. Not long ago, a classmate of mine at the Central Party School wrote an article "Chairman Mao and Weiqi", saying that Chairman Mao's hobbies were swimming and Weiqi besides reading books. An article by Professor Scott Ballman of Yale University in the United States explains Chairman Mao's strategy from the perspective of Weiqi, from which we can see that Chairman Mao used the principle of Weiqi to lead the China Producer Party to win the war. Comrade Chen Yi loves and strongly advocates Weiqi, and because of his love for Weiqi, almost all senior generals of the New Fourth Army are Weiqi enthusiasts.
As we all know, Jin Yong, a martial arts novelist, has been fascinated by Go since he was a child. Later, he came to Hong Kong to start a business and had a hard life. He said that once he played chess, he could do nothing. what should he do ？ He locked Weiqi in the attic, climbed to a difficult place and locked it one by one. In this way, he gave up playing chess Later, when he became famous, he started playing chess again and invited me to play with him. There is a saying that there is a small world and a big world, or a small universe and a big universe. Weiqi is the universe and the world. Weiqi contains too much, including astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, military affairs, life and so on. Taking philosophy as an example, Weiqi contains rich philosophical thoughts, full of dialectical relations of unity of opposites, such as size, sequence, attack and defense, gain and loss, life and death, thickness, strangeness, movement, topography and reality. Offensive and defensive contradictions are not contradictory. For example, Go is the harmony of yin and yang, black and white yin and yang, and black and white blending. Just like Taiji diagram, black and white are mutually transformed and inseparable. Defensive attack, you can only attack if you are well defended. A good attack is the best defense, but you must defend well.
In ancient China, there were "ten strokes of Go": First, do not be greedy for victory; Second, get started slowly; Third, attack each other and care for me; Fourth, abandon the child and strive for the first place; Fifth, save the small and save the big; Sixth, it must be abandoned in times of crisis; Seven, be careful not to accelerate; Eight, the action must correspond; Nine, He Qiang protects himself; Ten, solitary. This was put forward by the king of the Tang Dynasty. Think carefully about these ten sentences, and the point of each sentence is to be careful.
Don't be greedy, be moderate and don't overdo it. No matter what you do, you will become greedy and bad, so it comes first. Go ahead, win half an eye and half an eye will be ok. You can only win two eyes, and winning twenty eyes is unwise for you. This is China's golden mean. You should stop being greedy.
It's better to enter the boundary slowly. If you want to invade others, don't worry, take your time, and don't rush to invade others.
If you attack others, you must take care of yourself. If you attack blindly, you are full of defects. This kind of attack is unacceptable. You must take good care of yourself before you attack others. Men's courage should not be advocated.
Abandon one's son for the first place. You can be the first to abandon your child. If you want to get the first hand, you have to pay the price. If you give up, you can get the first hand. Everything comes at a price, and all the benefits in the world are for you. No, it's not just playing chess. It's what a man should do.
Give up the small and seek the big. If you want the big one, you have to give up the small one, and you can't even lose the small one. That won't do. There are gains and losses, and everything has gains and losses. When learning Go, we must understand the relationship between gains and losses. A person's life, in the end, is to lose a little more and he will succeed. No one in the world gains or loses, and giving up small is great.
Give up when it is dangerous. Give up when you are in danger, don't cling to it.
Be careful not to act rashly. Your speed, nothing can be too fast, it is impossible to make a move, and so is everything. Every sentence tells you to be cautious, careful and conscientious.
The action must be corresponding. You should pay attention to your actions, don't go it alone, let alone act rashly, and the same is true of playing chess.
He defended himself strongly. If he is strong, you have to protect him. He is very strong. It is foolish of you to attack him blindly.
The potential is isolated and peaceful. This is also the case. So if you think about it carefully, these ten sentences teach people to be steady, calm and serious at every step.
The same is true in life. The important thing is to be cautious, cautious and cautious again, and not to act rashly. The decision should not be too hasty and greedy, not just playing chess. There are ways to do business, be in politics and be a man. In fact, they are all in it, so life is like chess, and chess is like life. Just like being born, going to kindergarten, primary school, middle school and university, it is equal to layout. You walked well and passed the first level. You went to Tsinghua Peking University, which is good for your future development. It is easy to find a job, and the middle level is good for you. The situation is not good, and the middle game is unfavorable. You didn't study well as a child, which will be bad for you in the future, so you lost many opportunities and became passive. When people reach middle age or young and middle age, they must work harder and harder. But it's not too late. Let's fight in the middle set. When the situation is good, don't be complacent. Even if you are proud, you think you are the boss, which is also arrogance. You must study hard. You just went to college, but you have mastered the basic knowledge. You haven't made a great gift yet. You have to wrestle, hone and learn a lot in society. The reason is the same. After the intermediate session, there are many endings. We said not to be 59, and everything will be fine. If it ends badly, it will be bad. One false move may lose the game. So playing chess is the same as life. The first is the entertainment function. Needless to say, go is a kind of game, which is very fun. Playing Go is entertainment first. Now some people look down on entertainment, and entertainment can't be looked down upon. Everyone, from children to the elderly, should have entertainment. Everyone should play. How can we not play? So it is very important. Schiller said a sentence, which I think is particularly good: only people can play games in a complete sense. People can only be complete by playing games. This sentence is true, the game should be viewed from such a height. Weiqi is a very good game. It is a game between a child and an adult, and everyone can play it. Games can make people achieve perfection and harmony. Games are non-utilitarian, free and happy. Go is very good in these aspects and is not utilitarian. Go is better than playing mahjong. Mahjong is boring without money. You must come to eat potato chips. If you want money, you will be utilitarian. Go doesn't have this, no chips, and you can still play without money. This is good, and it is very free and happy. Go has no age or status, and the venue and equipment are simple. Weiqi is a very healthy game, and now it advocates a leisurely society. I think playing Go is particularly good, especially suitable for a leisurely society. This is the entertainment function.
The second is the educational function. Fun and education make you happy to receive education. Go can't be separated from education since its invention. The most basic thing of Go is to develop intelligence and exercise thinking. Weiqi has many advantages. It can cultivate your independent thinking ability. When you play Weiqi, you can think for yourself. No one can help you. It can cultivate your concentration, your deliberation, your risk-taking ability, your observation ability and your overall view. You should be able to consider the problem comprehensively and make the right choice, especially to withstand the challenge of victory and defeat and cultivate your psychological endurance. 200 1 The Ministry of Education and the General Administration of Sports issued a document that Go, Chess and Chess were introduced to schools because they were good for improving students' quality.
The third is the competitive function. Learning Weiqi in ancient times is an elegant, calm and calm manner, and it is a very high-level accomplishment. Later, it evolved into competition, mainly hundreds of years ago, during the Japanese shogunate era, four families competed with each other. There is also imperial city chess, which is to ask the players to play in the palace. These games made Go have strict rules, and from then on, Go became a game. Japan has made contributions in this regard, which is very beneficial to improving the level of sports and expanding its influence. Later, the newspaper held a news chess game. Therefore, Go has a competitive function, which is now unambiguous.
The fourth is the communicative function. Just now I said that Go is also called hand talk. You can communicate by playing chess, so playing chess makes you good friends. Chess friends are not utilitarian. It is not easy to maintain long-term friendship between people in society nowadays, but through Go, chess friends can keep it for a particularly long time. There is a saying in Japan called Go Goku. If you get five, what will you get? Go gains true knowledge, lessons, friends, harmony and longevity, which are the five major achievements of Japan. Harmony and good friends are interpersonal communication, interpersonal communication and interpersonal harmony. Go has a communicative function here, so no matter what you do, as long as you meet a chess friend, your relationship will be good. If you communicate, your friendship will deepen and things will be easy. Therefore, Go has communicative function.
The fifth is the fitness function. Just now I said that the Japanese think there are five things in Go, one of which is Tianshou. Longevity means prolonging life and is good for health, so Go is a sport. On the surface, Go is the quietest sport. The most intense part of Go is the brain. The brain is the most important of all human organs, and brain death is human death. All actions and organs are dominated by the brain. Is muscular health? That's just appearance, it doesn't mean that your body is really strong. The key lies in the internal organs, especially the brain. I have never seen or heard of anyone playing chess with Alzheimer's disease since ancient times. Because go is thinking all day, of course, it should be moderate and not excessive.
Because the brain is well trained, it has a long life span, and it has been proved that people who play chess have a long life span on the whole, especially some famous players, including professional players, who are so intense and hard-working, have a long life span. Many professional players in Japan are still playing in their nineties. Ryutaro Hashimoto was over 90 years old. The day before his death, he was still in a formal competition with a Japanese six-stage player and won. In China, like my teachers, they all live to be eighty or ninety years old. After the "Cultural Revolution", they were devastated and suffered a lot, but they all lived for a long time, which was not easy. So this Japanese birthday is meaningful. In addition, when you play chess, you don't think about anything, have no troubles, have no pain, and are extremely happy. Playing chess can relieve stress and is good for your health. This is the culture of China.
The five aspects I have summarized are just to explain why Weiqi has developed for thousands of years and has not been eliminated, and it can still develop so well today. Now, what a bright pearl Weiqi is in the world culture and art! Now the momentum of Go is getting better and better, and so are European countries. After learning Weiqi, everyone spoke highly of Weiqi. Weiqi fully embodies China culture, its characteristics and essence, its charm and charm. At present, our country is advocating the inheritance of Chinese civilization and promoting the traditional culture of China. I think Go is the most suitable. Our motherland is getting stronger and stronger. I think it is mainly reflected in the economy, but there are still shortcomings in other aspects, especially in culture and ideology.
I once saw on TV that former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said that China exported TV sets instead of TV programs and China's cultural thoughts. This is the general idea. I think this sentence is very profound and to the point. I think that if a nation wants to get real respect, it must first respect itself. The Chinese nation has stood up on the international stage, but to really stand up, we must integrate ourselves, improve ourselves and develop ourselves, which requires the foundation of China traditional culture.
Today, when we promote Go, we actually inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional culture of the motherland. In the process of learning Weiqi, we naturally and happily learn, understand, recognize and accept China culture. Harmony is the core of China culture, and we can better understand it by learning Weiqi. The popularity of Go is conducive to family harmony, friend reconciliation, social harmony and world peace. This is my experience, feeling and superficial understanding. There must be mistakes and one-sided places. Please criticize more. Thank you all.