Chess, five lines of gossip.

First of all, we should start with the word "elephant" in chess. Some people think that the elephant in chess is the best of all animals, so it is called chess. Elephants are not the best of all animals, let alone the most powerful car in chess.

The image of chess refers to the image of yin and yang changes, which undoubtedly comes from the divination tools used by wizards in the Yijing era.

Ancient chess should be a 64-grid chessboard, a yin-yang chessboard. Going straight means yang, and walking diagonally means yin. In the original form, Wang's predecessor was divination, and he took a step straight. The predecessor of Hou (Shi) was Kun Gua, who took an oblique step. The elephant's predecessor was the eldest son divination and the eldest daughter divination. They are Haig's elephants and white elephants. They tend to take two steps. The horse's predecessor was neutron divination, and China women left divination and took the Japanese character of one yin and one yang. The predecessor of the car is the youngest son and divination, and the youngest daughter is divination. Take two steps straight. There should be no chess pieces at first, but the dice have six sides. If you throw it to a pawn that doesn't represent it, you may have to stop. In evolution, the sixth chess piece "Liu Jia" was added, which was the predecessor of the pawn.

At first, chess was based on the sun, the moon and the stars, that is, the wind, thunder and water volcanoes. As wizards gradually withdrew from the historical stage, they gradually became popular kings, generals, soldiers, horses, chariots and soldiers in the evolution of the people. There has never been an elephant. But in the Song Dynasty, for some reason, (Xiang) evolved into the word "Xiang".

The name of chess is closely related to the phenomenological thinking mode of Zhouyi and its image number theory. This can be proved by the description of Baise chess in Bian Shao's "Saif".

Thinking in images is a unique way of thinking in Zhouyi. The eight diagrams and sixty-four hexagrams cover all kinds of physical images, real images and virtual images of everything in the world. It is through the thinking methods of metaphor and analogy that the Book of Changes grasps and understands objective things. Bosai chess adopts phenomenological thinking mode in thinking mode and Zhouyi method in the design of chessboard and sub-chessboard, so it is full of various "images" such as the movement of heaven and earth, the alternation of the sun and the moon, the alternation of the four seasons, the combination of rigidity and softness, courtesy, righteousness and benevolence. As summarized by Bian Shao, it has a grand and extensive "image" of "quality is like heaven" and "learning from heaven and earth". Therefore, the reason why Bose is called chess is precisely because of the image of "heaven and earth" in the style plate and Bose game.