King Yun pointed to the chessboard and said: "In August of the fourth year of the Han Dynasty, the Chu army ran out of food, Xiang Yu was forced to negotiate peace, and Liu Bang was unable to transfer Han Xin and Peng Yue to reinforce the army, so the two sides signed a peace treaty to 'divide the world in the middle', draw the gap as the boundary, and return to Chu in the east and Han in the west. After two years and five months of holding each other on the Xingyang and Chenggao lines, the Chu and Han armies ceased fighting. After the peace agreement was established, Liu Bang sent envoys to Chuying to ask for the release of Liu Bang's family, but they were all refused. Later, Hou Sheng's past successfully persuaded Xiang Yu to return Liu Bang's family. Liu Bang worshiped Hou Sheng as the 'King of Ping', but Hou Sheng retired after being entitled. The Chu River and Han border were the places where the two armies faced each other back then. He set up the red and black chess pieces respectively, and said proudly: "You two can learn chess with me, what a blessing."

"The Great Song Dynasty of Wei Guozhong Xuangong Hong Hao is a master of chess in the world, once stranded in the Jin Kingdom when he was the envoy of the Great Jin Tong, so I have the fate to often learn chess skills with him, especially his two sons Hong Zun, Hong Mai is better than the blue, especially Hong Mai's chess art is better, his "Chess Classics" is written very, very good, it is a paper on the overall strategy and tactics of chess, and the principles of chess attack and defense are quite elaborated."

After saying that, he paused for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "Yuwen Xuzhong is a descendant of the Northern Zhou royal family, an authentic chess family, and his chess skills should be today's Taishan Beidou, but unfortunately he was killed by the Jin court not long ago. I received a lot of guidance from him in the northern country, and my chess skills improved as a result, which was just right for the two of them. ”

He suddenly smiled mysteriously, pulled the two closer, changed his words, lowered his head and whispered: "In terms of martial arts, your master is as powerful as me, although I will also give you some advice, but I still be your uncle and ancestor, and I don't lose anything." What about chess? I'm a hard-to-find master in the world, so how about being your master? ”

The two children saw that King Yun was proud, full of childlike fun, and couldn't help but be happy, his chess cultivation was very high, and it was secondary. Shi Shuzu said so, but how dare the seniors play, the two said in unison: "No! Uncle Ancestor is Uncle Ancestor! ”

Chinese chess has been passed down for a long time since ancient times, and its origin is very strange. It is said that the "elephant" of Xiangqi is Shun's younger brother, who likes to kill, so he invented a game to simulate war, which is called "Xiangqi". In the Spring and Autumn Period, according to the different types of troops of the military system at that time, there were chess lieutenant generals, commanders, rooks, horses, soldiers, soldiers, and pawns. To the founding of the Western Han Dynasty, Han Xin made another major change, and there was the Chu River Han Boundary. The word "Elephant Opera" first appeared in the Northern Zhou Dynasty "Zhou Shu Benji", "Tianhe four years, May Yi Chou, the imperial "Xiangjing" was completed, and Bailiao preached. This matter was regarded as a grand event in the court of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and it was really lively. Tianhe is the name of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yuwen Yong, and Yuwen Xuzhong is his descendant. According to legend, the chess that was popular in later generations was originally made by Niu monks and children in the Tang Dynasty, and then it was constantly revised.

Another theory is that Yan Shu's "Class Essentials" records that Xiangqi was introduced to China in the early years of the Wei and Huang dynasties of the Three Kingdoms. The chess and six drama involved in the pre-Qin "Chu Ci Summoning Spirit" and the "Chess and Six Tricks" in the Qin and Han dynasties, and the Cypriot opera in the Qin and Han dynasties, are very different from the chess rules, chess pieces, chess plates and other forms of the later generations, and have no evolutionary relationship.

However, it is always difficult to conclude between the two.

Xiangqi was widely popular in the Song Dynasty, and the shape changed greatly, and the style was determined. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Cheng Hao sang a chess poem, "Most games are dramas, and elephant dramas can learn to use soldiers." The chariots and horses still have Zhou tricks, and they have both the name of Han officials. The Chinese army is heavy on all sides, and the sharp and oblique foot outside the river is light. But he laughed at himself with his sorrow, and he was as strong as Liu Xiang and idle. "There is no cannon in the middle of the country, it should be that there was gunpowder and firearms after the early Song Dynasty, so the cannon was set up in chess. In the Song Dynasty, the literati liked to talk about the soldiers, and also liked to use the elephant opera to play the soldiers, so the elephant opera flourished, and there were Sima Guang's "Seven Kingdoms Elephant Opera", Yin Zhu's "Elephant Opera" and "Chess Situation", Chao Buzhi's "Guangxiang Opera" and other works came out, and the elephant opera and the small elephant opera were involved, and all of them had cannon chess pieces. Sima Guang's "Elephant Opera of the Seven Kingdoms" is a kind of elephant opera, and the baby elephant opera was finalized at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty into a model for later generations.

King Yun looked at Huaiying and Qiji's two children, one older and one young, all of whom were smart and enlightened, full of interest, and liked it in their hearts. He began to teach chess with chess sets, chessboards, and chess pieces. When it comes to the strength of the "car", "horse" and "artillery", I can't help but sigh: "In the horse artillery, the car is the strongest, the artillery is second, and the horse is the weakest. In the Warring States period before Zhao Wuling King Hufu cavalry shooting, although it was inseparable from horses, it was mainly based on chariot warfare, and it was logical to say that chariot combat power was the strongest at that time. After Zhao Wuling Wang Hu Fu rode and shot, he gradually left the car and focused on horse warfare. In particular, the two Han Dynasty had a saddle and stirrups, and riding a horse was like a tiger with wings. Don't look at the great power of the cannon on the chessboard, in fact, it has only begun to be laid since the dynasty had gunpowder, and it may have great prospects in actual combat in the future, but it is still not possible at present. ”

Abandoning chess is very different from actual combat, and I can't help but be slightly disappointed, how can King Yun not see it? He pointed to the chessboard and said: "The elephant opera comes from the military exercise, and there is infinite knowledge on this plate, and my Song literati like to use it to discuss soldiers." Sima Guang and Chao Buzhi are like this, Yin Zhu has served in the northwest frontier for several years, is well versed in border affairs, and especially likes to use chess to discuss soldiers, and writes books and speeches. The Seven Kingdoms Elephant Opera was designed by Sima Guang in the Northern Song Dynasty based on the popular folk elephant opera between two people at that time, and was designed in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period of the Seven Heroes. Sima Guang has been fond of elephant opera since he was a child, but he felt that the elephant opera between the two could not be enjoyable, so he designed the elephant opera of the seven countries, expanded the chessboard to nineteen vertical and horizontal roads, and changed the elephant opera that two people could play to the elephant opera that could be played by seven people holding chess pieces from one country.

"The chessboard of the Seven Kingdoms Elephant Opera has nineteen lines in length and width, and there are three hundred and twenty-four squares in total. When seven players play, each player holds a piece from one country; When six people play, the state of Qin will be connected with one country; When five people play, the state of Chu will unite with one country; When three people play, the Qin State has to connect with the two countries. Players can be more or less, very flexible, can make people feel the hundreds of years of ups and downs between the seven heroes during the Warring States period, and the rise and fall of the country. So what is the combination of "horizontal and horizontal"? In fact, when seven players play against each other, the player can hold the "Lianheng" and "Hezhong" countries, that is, one person can hold the chess pieces of two or three countries. Note: "Only the three kingdoms of Qin, Qi, and Chu can "connect horizontally" and "conspire" with other countries. During the Warring States Period, Qin Prime Minister Zhang Yi advocated the technique of "connecting horizontal", while Su Qin, who wore the seal of the Six Kingdoms of Shandong, advocated the technique of "combining verticals". The game of the Seven Kingdoms was designed by Sima Guang from the historical background of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States.

"Look at this horse: the starting horse, because you can lay out the screen horse, you can deal with all the layouts, therefore, the first move of the horse also has the intention of testing the opponent's move, no matter how the opponent goes, the red side can get out of the screen horse, and then transform into a satisfactory layout. Ready-made moves in and out of the game to suppress the starting game, but Red still keeps the other horse jumping, so the starting game is still very popular. Therefore, the dispute with Hulu is often trapped in the plains, and it is always necessary to rely on Sichuan and Shaanxi. And the loss of the sixteen states of Yanyun, without the place to raise horses, the Central Plains is more like having no legs, feet, and arms.

"Once you learn to play the elephant game, overlook the chessboard, and still sit and watch the situation in the world, you will immediately have a lot of decisions. And winning or losing is all in the destruction of the general, indispensable to calm and strategic intelligence, the speed is not reached, must not be rushed, but it is fun to tight. "Huaiying, abandoning illness is a great increase in interest.

After explaining the chess equipment, chessboard, and chess pieces, he explained the rules, actions, playing methods, killing moves, situations, and victories. Especially when the situation in the middle of the game is stalemate, the attack is thunderous, the code is solid, the dodge is dodging and moving, and the welcome is-for-tat, the two children are fascinated, and there is a sense of vertical and horizontal shutting and looking at the Quartet, nothing in front of them is not a chess piece, and the tables, stools, trees, etc. look like cars and horses swaying around.

All chess skills are easy to master, and the same is true for chess. King Yun spent a month explaining the key points of each joint, Huaiying and Qiji are extremely smart, and they can understand it immediately. King Yun was very satisfied, and even left a quarrel: "Before the car and behind the horse; fire the cannon and chase the pawn; If the lightning strikes,......, it is hidden to kill the game, so that the anxiety is endless. Don't be busy when you have to be first; When you lose, you can still call your mind determined. Zili wins in the fierce game; Zili is wide, even if he seeks peace. Scholars carefully observe Yu Siyan, can be the hand of the country! Huaiying and Qiji recited carefully and kept it in mind.

After teaching the basic chess moves, King Yun personally set up a chess game with the two, and even integrated the 36 strategies of Tan Gong into the chess game.

"Some hot topics in chess theory, such as how to use static braking to take advantage of the situation; how to configure sub-forces and work together; how to balance the situation and seek a relatively ideal position; How to open up space, seize the overall commanding heights, etc., has been clearly confirmed in a variety of variants of the Flying Phase Bureau. Therefore, it is said that the flying phase game is kung fu chess, and it is necessary to taste it slowly, and it is difficult to understand the mystery in chess, such as vulgar hands, novices, novices, novices, and rookies. The formation pays the most attention to kung fu, without the previous formation to pave the way, it is difficult to understand the wonder of the flying phase bureau, it is the weakness of the above layout that the flying phase bureau has been reborn.

King Yun each used a game of chess to demonstrate the subtlety of a strategy.

Huaiying, abandon the disease are all born in the official family, the family has a lot of books, the abandoned disease grandfather Xin Zan himself is the Great Song Jinshi, Huaiying's mother Liu has also read some books, the two have been trained since childhood, both have some cultural skills, Huaiying is older, more taught.

Today, when I listen to King Yun's 36 plans, they all seem to understand but do not understand, and they are eager to understand. Especially the darkness of Chen Cang, the siege of Wei to save Zhao, the desire to capture the old indulgence, the transfer of the tiger from the mountain, etc., are all ghostly. And the truth is that the sky and the sea, the empty city plan, and the sound of the east and the west, etc., the serial plan is pressing step by step, and the anti-guest is domineering, and the use is even more wonderful.

The two children worshiped King Yun, and they were immediately attracted to it, and they couldn't help but operate it themselves. King Yun asked the two to play chess according to the score, change roles, and fiddle back and forth, and finally understood each strategy by heart and knew it well.

Later, the two played against each other from time to time while practicing literature and martial arts, and each showed what they had learned, and their chess skills improved by leaps and bounds.

After getting out of the school on this day, when I entered the martial arts field, I saw Fan Jiu'er teasing a little beast that looked like a cat but not a cat. The little beast had a round head, broad cheeks, a broad snout and a short neck, thick limbs and tail, and a high-pitched and rapid cry. The two looked funny and couldn't help but pass by. When the little beast saw that someone was coming, his eyes were full of fear, but he was still ready to pounce.

Fan Jiu'er saw the two approaching and shouted, "You two guess what this little guy is?" ”

After all, Huaiying is a few years older and has seen a little more, and her heart moved, and she couldn't help asking, "Is it a little tiger?" ”

Abandoned the disease was taken aback, and Fan Jiu'er replied happily: "Yes, it's the little tiger." Daddy injured a tiger today, the tiger ran away, and met this little tiger cub on the way to chase him, so he caught it, saying that he wanted to use it to accompany us to practice martial arts. "The children were very happy.

China used to be the region with the largest number of cat species and numbers, with lions, tigers, leopards, biao, cats, rabbits, lynx and other cat breeds. In China's long cultural record, felines are widely documented. Before modern times, big cats were also the greatest threat to humans in the wild, and our ancestors coexisted harmoniously with them, and together with our ancestors, they were widely distributed throughout the country. More than 100 years ago, there were tens of thousands of the rarest tigers alone.