Haiyan Heqing Four O’clock Days

  Chapter 53 [Jing Lian Xia Sheng] Xia Day is constant, the sun’s shadows are sparse and extremely overcast, and the lotus ripples [Xia Zhi·3]

  Long day short shadows on the summer solstice surface,

  The first move should be white but black.

  Laugh and talk about who wins in children,

   Leaning down deep in the shade of the tree.

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A teenage child under the shade of the tree laboriously brought a chess board and placed it on the circle of seats on the side of the flowerbed around the tree. It was different from the Chu River and Han circles engraved on the stone table on the side. On the chessboard that came, there were nineteen horizontal and vertical points, and there were 361 intersections, nine of which were highlighted as "Nine Stars", the center point was "Tian Yuan", and the other eight star positions corresponded to the nine stars in the sky.

  I saw that the child had just set the chessboard and stood up again. After a while, he held two chess baskets and placed them on both sides. Although watching this child come and go, time after time, take the chess board and the chess pieces, take the chess pieces and take the futon cushion... But it is not busy talking, maybe it is because the child has been learning chess for many years, but in the meantime It reveals a bit of elegance, discipline, and order.

  In a short while, the child was almost ready for preparation. A child of the same age as the child rushed over, holding two bottles of drinks in his hands.

   "Sorry, I'm a little late." The kid first expressed his apologies from the bottom of his heart, and then handed out a bottle of drink in his hand, "It's very hot, and you have to wait for me."

  The child who had been busy for a long time was not hypocritical, so he took the water and said, "It's okay," while saying, raised the drink in his hand, "Thank you, next time I will ask you to eat ice cream!"

  The two children stopped chatting, and walked to the side of the futon under the shade of the tree.

  Late late, the kid said, "I’m late today, and no matter what else, it’s up to you."

  Previously, the child was taken aback and opened his mouth, but said nothing. Although there was no dissatisfaction, it was obvious that he was a little puzzled. After being silent for a while, he was about to walk to the side of the futon, and the child slowly opened his mouth, "Okay."

  The child who came late saw that he had let him out first, but the other party was stunned for a long time, thinking that he was not sincere enough to apologize, and he was not forgiven. Finally, he heard the "OK" and felt relieved.

  Waiting to sit on the futon, the two players played chess, but the two children said in unison: "Please!"

  The kid who is holding the white who came late was taken aback for a moment, and then reopened, "Black moves first, please!"

  As a result, I just heard the other party also said, "Please first..."

  At this time, the child who came that night realized that the other party's surprise might have another reason.

  "Don't you know this rule?" The two children said in unison.

  Although there are differences, the two voices are not loud, both are gentle and polite, not like the anger that children of this age often have. But this is so, it still attracted a few elderly people who often played chess here to watch.

The two children explained to each other a bit, but it turned out that the child who played chess learned from a teacher and used the game method handed down from the ancient China of China. The rules of the child who came late are the so-called competition. There are many differences between the two rules. Fortunately, there is no change in the "eye", "qi", "true eye", "false eye", "live chess", "dead chess"... and the moves. , As for the judgment of winning or losing, there are differences again.

  The last two children take a step back, start the game with the white first, and break the win or lose according to the rules of the competition.

  The two children may be considered evenly matched. If you mention me, I will mention you... It has never been a long time before a winner can be distinguished.

The elderly people around    were jealous and their hands were itchy, so they took the chess and put them on the stone table beside it, hot. The people playing chess were sweating profusely, and the people watching the chess were holding a fan "swish" fanning the wind, as if they couldn't get rid of the heat, and they also sweated their backs, soaking their big white vests.

  The people on this side of chess have almost rotated for three rounds, and the game of Go on the other side is not over. The two children played Go using their brains, and naturally they were sweating, but they still did not change the polite and calm temperament.

As a result, the elderly people who played chess happily took a big fan and stood beside the two children and watched quietly. Perhaps they were affected by the quiet atmosphere of the two children, and there was no time for everyone to play chess. The noisy energy of pointing and pointing at the side seems to have also been integrated into this world with only yin and yang in black and white...

  　Knowledge link: [related knowledge mentioned in this chapter (including some extensions)]

  　　 other related

  　　①Go: Born in primitive society, excellent traditional Chinese culture, "chess" among the four arts of "Pin, Chess, Calligraphy and Painting", modern is a competitive sport. There are multiple functions such as self-cultivation.

②The rules of Go first hand: the ancient traditional rules are white first and black second (when the strength of the two sides are different, there is also black first). In contrast to the modern competition rules, black first white second is the ancient Japanese after learning Go from China Modified rules.

  　　③Other Go-related: "Mesh", "Qi", "True Eye"... etc. in the text are all Go terms.

  　　④Chess: Originated in the Warring States period more than two thousand years ago.

  　　[Part of the information comes from the Internet, and is made by self-integration and interpretation]

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