The origin of Weiqi, which is popular in China, Japan and South Korea.

Originated in China. Weiqi was originally related to divination.

Weiqi originated in China and was called Yi in ancient China. It can be said that Weiqi is the originator of chess. Weiqi has a history of more than 4000 years. According to the pre-Qin classic Shi Ben, "Yao made Weiqi and was good at it." Zhang Hua in the Jin Dynasty inherited and developed this sentence in the Natural History: "Yao taught Go. Or cloud: Shun is a fool with his son and pretends to teach him. "

1964 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica adopted this statement, and even dated it as 2356 BC.