How did Go come into being? Why is it related to myth?

Nowadays, not only many children in China learn Go from childhood for intellectual development, but also Go is a very popular board game abroad. Weiqi contains many mysteries and is a treasure of China's production system culture. Weiqi has a history of more than 4,000 years, so who invented Weiqi? What is its origin?

Some people speculate that Yaodi invented Weiqi, because Weiqi was first recorded in the pre-Qin classic Shiben. Yao plays Go, but he plays it well. ? There are further records in the books of the Song Dynasty:? Tang Gaozong, married Fu Yi first? The emperor was sad, for playing chess and relaxing. ? However, considering that many ancient inventions are actually attributed to celebrities, it is not certain that Yao Di invented Go. But what is certain is that Go was invented in the Yao era.

There are two views about the earliest origin of Go: mainstream and non-mainstream. The mainstream is that Go originated from hunting. According to legend, Yao was inspired when rounding up rhinoceros. He used Wensang as a chessboard and rhinoceros horn as a pawn to demonstrate the skills of rounding up, thus forming the earliest Go. Later, Yao's son liked Weiqi very much, and he made many improvements on the chessboard and Weiqi strategy. The non-mainstream view is that Go was originally used as a means of divination, not as a two can play that game. Why is this statement not mainstream? Because there is no conclusive evidence for this inference, it is relevant that Mr. Wu Qingyuan thinks that Go was originally a tool for divining astronomical phenomena in his autobiography "There are Days Behind", because the original calculation of the ancients was through coordinates, and the chessboard was just coordinates. If you want to know more, you can search.

In fact, if you study Go, there will always be some myths. This is because Yao Di's creation of Go is the same as Shennong's tasting a hundred herbs and Lu Ban's being a carpenter's ancestor. You can't be sure of the truth of the stories handed down by people, but you can't deny the source of its cultural roots.