Over and above
In june 2022, the summer chess festival and the isek lake cup championship were held in kyrgyzstan。
In december 2023, an international children-friendly amateur chess invitation event was held in zhejiangzhou. These pictures are from the chinese chess association
From 7 to 10 december 2023, the 2023 championship of traditional sports international exchange was held in yunnan, where 62 players, both at sea and abroad, used their chess friends to feel the charm of traditional chinese sports, and to achieve a clash of ideas and cultural accommodation. Among the treasures of china's excellent traditional culture, chess is highly regarded worldwide for its long history and wisdom。
In recent years, as china's cultural ties with the world have become ever closer, chess has gradually moved from east asia to the rest of the world, serving as a vehicle for the exchange of chinese and foreign cultures and a platform for friendly interaction. It can be said that this fine skill not only provides an intellectual playing field for national players, but also acts as a cultural messenger across national borders。
It's a long history of chess culture
Since its inception, chess has had a rich cultural connotation, and its history dates back to the qin era. In ancient times, chess and the ancient genre, calligraphy and drawings, known as “governors and masters”, were first popular between the court and the doctor, and during the period of tang song, they developed into civics and became a popular sport for men, women and children. The image of the ming dynasty poet shen, who said in "the sun and the moon are turning, the mountain is moving up and up" in the chess, reflects the mind of the game。
From tang dynasty, chess follows the cultural exchanges between china and foreign countries out of the country. More than 1,200 years ago, he brought chess and other advanced chinese knowledge and skills to japan, a well-defined but unpredictable sport project that was rapidly widely accepted by local society. The tang song era was accompanied by the prosperity of the maritime silk road, and the impact of chess was further expanded to form a chess culture in the east asian region. At the beginning of the 17th century, the knowledge of chess passed across the sea to europe through the descriptions of rimatil and the british orientist thomas hyde。
Today, in the country, chess is not only popular among people of all ages, but is also becoming a more and more professional choice. According to statistics, the population of chinese chess is over 60 million, of which about 15 million are part of the class, and about 3 million new children and adolescents learn about chess each year. At the international level, the charm of chess is no less indecisive. In europe, for example, although the region has had contact with chess for just over 300 years, it has evolved from a small game-playing project to a socially influential cultural activity. Since 1957, the european chess congress has successfully held 65 sessions, with the number of participants increasing from more than 10 in its first term to more than 700 in its latest, reflecting the internationalization of the chess culture and the growing influence in europe。
Drive chess to the world
Chess unites the chinese nation in its quest for fair and balanced values. Whether black or white, there is no hierarchy or weakness between chess players, and different values can be represented only in different positions. In addition, the value orientation of the game is fully reflected in the larger picture. Each piece of chess dropped in the game is a part of the whole and can only play its part if it is organically integrated and aggregated。
In order to promote the continued development of the world's chess culture, china has written a remarkable page with deep cultural foundations and continuous innovative efforts. In 2019, china was the first country to host a world chess development summit, which invited over 70 leaders of chess organizations from 55 countries and regions to participate. In recent years, the national directorate of sports and the chinese chess association have continued to work, and the influence of the chinese chess culture has expanded from east asia to the world, particularly in latin america. In april 2021, china signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the latin american chess league, which will create brand competitions, co-training mechanisms, etc. The president of the latin american chess league, emil garcía, enthusiastically said: “china has become a leader and promoter of worldwide chess development.”
There is also a growing exchange of chess between china and russia, with many prominent russian chess players studying and participating in china. The chinese ambassador's cup of chess and the chinese consulate general's cup of chess are growing in influence in russia, and the president of the russian federation's chess league, maxim walkov, has stated: “the development of the russian-chinese chess enterprise will enhance friendship and understanding between the two peoples.”
In kyrgyzstan, the chinese chess association sponsored the country's first chess event, the summer chess festival for little fox and the summer chess championship for lake issyk cup. In june 2022, more than 500 chess fans from countries and regions of central asia, russia and europe held a three-day chess competition to sow the seeds of china's excellent traditional culture to the beautiful shores of lake issyk。
China is polishing this cultural business card on the world stage and has gained wide praise by providing a platform for global chess fans to exchange events. In december 2023, in shenzhen, the council and plenary meeting of the 2023 international chess league were held. The chinese presidency proposed that, while respecting the current rules of chess, the future international events organized by the league and the comprehensive international intellectual sport chess competitions should be an important step towards harmonizing the rules of chess。
Path to the culture of innovation
The establishment of a unified system of chess discourse is an important building block for the dialogue between our national chess culture and the international community. In 2021, china's first lexicon of chess terms in foreign languages, the chinese/british dictionary of chess terms, was compiled and published, incorporating nearly 700 pieces of chess terms, reproducing the technical description of chess terms in an accurate english language, not only providing learning resources for chess fans, but also playing a key role in promoting the standardization and universalization of chess terms。
At the same time, a number of chess cultural centres have been established throughout the country. In 2021, china's first chess cultural exchange centre was located in zhejiangzhou, china's hometown of chess, which provided a space for chess fans to experience the tang-song-hyun. Yunnan baoshan is the birthplace of the sacred piece of chess “the son of everlasting child”, and ming jie-hyun geographer xu xia has written that “the chess items are made of yunnan, in the name of the young chang”, where the culture of chess continues for thousands of years. In june 2023, the south asia and south-east asia international chess cultural exchange centre, which has the world's largest chess library, was inaugurated in baoshan, with an excellent environment and well-equipped facilities to attract players from the mainland to visit。
The chinese chess community has also responded to current trends and developed a popular chess ip for young people. The chinese association of chess and chess promotes the image of the "fox" cartoons in social media overseas, with a piece of chess, an inspirational cutie, and special features. This cartoon is based on the other term of "wood fox" in the chess: in the ancients, the characteristics of the great change in chess were like a fox, and song was also drowned in "the grantor" and said, "thinking into god, change." as a result, the chinese chess association has launched a variety of creative products around the image of the “fox” in which the culture of chess is skilfully combined with modern aesthetic and market demands。
In the field of video and television, the television show " the spirit of chess " has successfully demonstrated the great potential of the cross-border spread of chess culture. The play talks about the man's “time” efforts to become a professional chess player and has created a game of chess both at home and abroad. At the same time, in the areas of artificial intelligence, mobile internet and live online broadcasting, the chess culture has achieved an interactivity across time and space: chinese chess leagues conduct live video lectures all the way. World champions, kojie and national champions, who are so popular, interact with global chess fans through live platforms, and a growing number of young people are beginning to learn about chess through the internet and artificial intelligence。
Chess has crossed country and culture into a “language of the world” because it embodies the best traditional culture of china and incorporates chinese traditional philosophical wisdom. Along with the worldwide development and spread of the chess culture, its cultural connotations and the human spirit contribute to the exchange of knowledge among people of different countries and to the unique charm of chinese civilization。
Daily people's journal (ed
