? The Immortality in the Chess Game
--Preface to the History of Utopia Elderly People's Chess Association
Lan Shan please
The old people should have fun, which is a topic supported by all the people***, and it is obviously in line with the actual needs of a healthy society and the inevitable orientation of the logic of life. People must have the old, the old should be happy, do not say Sanyu late, for the Xia still full of sky; Le on Sanyu, I'm old, I'm happy, I'm old, I'm at ease; especially in this Qingping Shengshi, respect the old respect the old, however, has become a trend, into the realm of the old generation, every day are surrounded by the material and spiritual superiority, why don't you do it for joy? You have 10,000 reasons to be happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy. Therefore, we have to break up the days to find music, there is music to have a beautiful skyline of life.
The Utopia Elderly Chess Association is a kind testimony of the Utopia Elderly People who have fun in their old age.
The organization was established in 1991, so far has been nearly 30 years, they are from the initial several interest in the retirees between the self-entertainment to the team to participate in various competitions, from the loose get together to the formation of the game to form an association with the statute of the organization, we are happy to play, play with the rules and regulations, play with you have me, I have you, a faction of free and easy. We often see, utopian culture square and nine ligang bridge in the shade, whenever the breeze comes, the chess game will be interpreted to open, elderly friends uninvited, a table of new friends old friends, gladly immersed in the "car, horse, cannon, pawn" competition wisdom competing in the world of courage, chu he Han boundary, and forget to go back to the early evening light, the road is sparse, the party closed the plate and The "joy of it all" is a kind of "joy of it all", and it is a joy to forget about it. This kind of "joy" not lack of square dance in that kind of happy and sound happiness, not lack of gate ball field you a ball I a ball leisurely at ease, also not lack of syrupy grandchildren, bowed down willingly for the children's cattle of that kind of family interest. Utopia's article Mr. Mo Ruowen wrote "Utopia elderly chess association fugue", which has "often get together after tea, chess fans piled up into the landscape. Wonderful chess that is out, applauding, embarrassing chess landing, stomping feet and pounding chest" of the best lines, the happy scene of the chess field is written in a wonderful way.
As of 2017, the association has continued to successfully hold 25 sessions of district-level chess tournaments for the elderly, and at the same time, also at any time to hold urban areas and townships to join forces with neighboring counties and districts to join forces with the tournament, and many times to form a team to participate in the year's Utopia area and the city merger of Shiyan City, Shiyan City Old Sports Association held various types of chess tournaments, several times on behalf of the city of Shiyan City, to participate in the province's elderly chess tournament to participate in the national chess amateur king tournament and so on. Chess amateur chess king tournament, etc., the normal entertainment and all levels of tournaments and activities combined, the depth of the chess entertainment to enhance the taste and level, the achievements of a number of play with the level of fun and fame of the chess masters. Such as Hu Shunqiang who is good at attack and defense, Qi Yongyi who is good at calculation, He Mingxian who shows his skill in handicap, Yang Rongzang who is famous for his safe and strict style of chess, Gao Xianzhang who is a deep planner with many variations, as well as Wang Taifa, Tao Jing, Tao Wenqing, Li Meinian, Peng Chunsheng, Liu Zhenggiu, Pan Qinghua, Wang Zhi and Chen Genius ....... Some of the classic games were played by them in a pure and new way, with variations and subtleties. Very rare there are a number of female chess players also emerged, like Xu Jingmin, Park Ju Hua, etc., they not only fill the blank of female participation in the plain chess field, but also on behalf of Shiyan to go to the Provincial Games, to win awards, to take back the trophy, it is very welcome!
Chess is a kind of recreational activities for the benefit of the brain, young and old, especially for the elderly loved, because it always maintains a kind of internal movement outside the static state of the competition, especially suitable for the brain for the joy of the elderly friends. Older friends if the life experience and the chess road in the gossip combined, prudent every step of every chess, that really has unlimited wonderful and incomparable interest. Life can not not count or encounter counting, counting and being counted, are thinking of the ordeal, to count to overcome the counting, is thinking of the opening of the eyes of the sky, the joy of it. In the art of chess, one starts with a calculated move and calculates step by step until one has killed all the players and captured the general. A good move is a successful calculation, and if this successful calculation can be reused and tried again and again, then it is called a tactic in the art of war. The ancients have left us many of their "calculating" classics, i.e., chess games, and we can remember to use these wisdoms well, without having to think of our own "calculations", so that we can turn novices into veterans, and bad players into masters, and we can analyze the complexity and pattern of world affairs in every chess game. Each game of chess can analyze the complex pattern of world affairs. So the Song Dynasty monk Zhiwen poem wrote: "willow reed reed over the waterfront, wandering south looking at leaning on the appendage frequency. Years like a bird fluttering past, the world as a chess game new. Arashi accumulation of distant mountains in the fall weather, the moon rises in the high pavilion at night spirit. The moon rises above the pavilion at night. A duck heron rises from the lotus leaf boat, and the fisherman in the boat is fishing." He brought the game of chess to compare the world affairs, can be seen in the game of chess of the diversity.
Into the game, you can forget the noise, forget the time, forget the body inside and outside.
To cite a familiar story of immortals playing chess, that is, Liu Yuxi "to the countryside turned like a man in Ranke" in the poem involved in the allusion. Legend has it that during the Western Jin Dynasty, a young farmer named Wang Qi went up the mountain to fetch firewood and came to the entrance of Wang Qiao Xian's cave. The young man was bold and curious, thinking that people say that there are immortals in the cave, what do they look like, why don't I go in and see what's going on? Because the hole is very small, can only pass through one person, the hole is more than three feet deep, wide and high each ten feet. Wang quality just into the hole can not see anything, later, the roof of the hole through the light, in front of two children are playing chess. Wang Qi is a good chess player, and was attracted by the two children's excellent chess skills. The children ate jujubes while playing chess, sometimes handing them to Wang Qi. After watching a game, the child said to Wang Qi, "You should go back too." Wang Zhi bent down to pick up the axe, but to his surprise, the axe handle was rotten and only the iron axe was left. When Wang Qi returned to his village, he did not recognize anyone, and when he asked his parents where they were, he realized that they had been dead for a hundred years. Wang Qi was greatly surprised that he had met a fairy, and the fairy world was a thousand years away from the world, so he was already a hundred years away from the world. Putting aside the vicissitudes of this story, towards the philosophical side of the story, we can appreciate the great temptation and immense immersion in the game of chess, a game of chess is often immersed as if it were a lifetime ago, and the realm of chess turns out to be the realm of the immortal fantasy of forgetfulness, the chess realm is an infinite and mysterious secret realm!
Another story about the high state of chess is "Guan Gong's bone scraping" in the story of the Three Kingdoms, where Guan Yunchang, a mortal flesh and bone, had his arm cut open by Hua Tuo without anesthetic, and scraped the bone with a knife, and the viewers sweated like rain, but he was able to drink and eat meat and laughed and played chess without any pain. You think such a strong man is what kind of steel and iron bones! When we sigh at the same time, we can't help but applaud the great cultivating power of chess to calm the spirit and forget the real world. If there is no game of chess in front of them for their distraction, even if General Guan is more brave, I am afraid that it is difficult for him to be calm and free from anxiety! Chess is indeed a playground for the mind, where there seems to be no real battle, but in essence there are ten thousand horses in the battle is still sound thrilling, seems to be no fire and smoke, but there is a ruthless killing of the tragic, and often the authorities are confused by the bystanders clear, so that the bystanders are more anxious than the manipulation of the chess player ten thousand times.
Chess is anciently known as "Xiangqi", Qu Yuan "soul" in the "菎蔽象碁" in the "菎蔽象棊，有六簙些", this is the earliest formal mention of chess in literature, which suggests that the life of the aristocracy during the Warring States period, that is, there is this kind of elegant entertainment. However, the game was still very simple, with only 6 pieces on each side, not comparable to today's complex game of 16 pieces. Of course, the wisdom of the hay day is not to be underestimated, without the simple conception at that time, it is impossible to have a richer and more reasonable game setup since then; later on, the "pawn" was set to 5, and the "rooks, knights, cannons, sergeants, and bishops" were each set to 2, which were all inspired and gradually sublimated from the original idea. The first is the "Pawn" set to 5, "Rook, Knight, Cannon, Soldier, Bishop" set to 2.
From the point that the ancients mentioned the production of Xiangqi to ivory as a material, Xiangqi name is said to be "Elephant" chess about the ivory related to other explanations are more speculative. The development of this game today has officially become one of the 78 sports carried out in our country, but also the first World Intellectual Games, one of the official competitions, 2006 Xiangqi by the State Council approved the inclusion of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
The Utopia Elderly Chess Association is very good to carry out this traditional recreational activities effectively, and continue to carry out, both physical and mental pleasure and carry forward the traditional civilization, not only highlight the Utopia history and civilization of the legacy of the Yu Bo and reflect the modern Utopia people's spiritual outlook of the elegance of the extraordinary, is very rare. As the song of Utopia Elderly Chess Association wrote: "Chess will be friends with deep friendship, not to win or lose on the heroes, driving jumping horse, set up artillery into the army, peace and competition, and its happy!" Chess music as the heart, open to the sky, the board to stay in the sunset, the years as long as the song.
Feng Menglong has a "hanging branch children" of chess prose written well, here right to borrow as a conclusion:
"boredom to take over the chess to play, to do you do the sergeant and the elephant, the force when the home; pawns forward line do not say back words, to learn the car line straight, not like the horse line slanting, if there are other people blocked my thoughts, I will be as a cannon like a child hit! "
The chess fun and life acting interpenetration said, free and happy, people live to this point there is what unhappy things can not block the open heart space? On the occasion of the Utopia Elderly Chess Association's usurpation of the history of Xiangqi Association, I feel that the system is a tribute to the hope that we can all seek joy in joy, joy to joy, enjoy every day full of feelings.
Therefore, this is the preface!
2018.8.7 Autumn Day