Go nine constellations

Who can see the world view on the board of Go?

There is a pyramid-shaped view of the universe on the chess board.

There are nine stars on the chess board, and the one in the middle is called Tianyuan. Yuan is the first meaning, Tianyuan is the highest point in the sky. With Tianyuan as the center, you can find many concentric squares (at present, you can find 9 chessboards with vertical and horizontal 19 lanes). The bigger the square, the lower the height. Among them, the square with the other eight stars represents the range of "heaven", and the largest square composed of four sideline lines represents "earth". The whole chessboard is actually a top-down projection of a three-dimensional diagram. The restored three-dimensional diagram is an annular regular four-cone, which is the world view contained in the chess board.

It is a common way in ancient China to express the world view from the top view, which can be seen in many astronomical instruments and divination instruments, such as Sina, the predecessor of compass, Taiyi Jiugong Zhanpan and Liu Ren Pan unearthed in Anhui during the Western Han Dynasty.

The famous pyramids in Egypt and the United States are all ring-shaped regular quadrangular pyramids, and their shapes are basically consistent with the world view on the board of Go, especially the early pyramids in Egypt, such as the First Pyramid of Egypt in Sakala, which was built in 2668 BC and is a six-story ring-shaped regular quadrangular pyramid.

In China, it is said that Yao Faming's Go is actually the product of a river map. Yao lived in the era when the Egyptian pyramids appeared. According to the scale of the river map, the distance from "ground" to "sky" should be equal to the distance from "sky" to "Tianyuan", that is, the original Weiqi board was vertical and horizontal, representing a regular pyramid with six layers of rings, corresponding to the left plug pyramid one by one.

China's river map is the highest representative work of symbolic culture before the appearance of characters, and it was revered as a sacred object in Fuxi era. Combined with the analysis of various contents contained in the river map, it should have a history of about 10 thousand years. Because of the influence of the river map, cosmology appeared on the chessboard was also widely used in the invention of many things in China's early civilization. So in our country, we can find not only the pyramids of Egypt and the United States, but also many other forms of cultural heritage to express this world view, and Weiqi is just one of them.