Shanyang Chess Art, a traditional sports, recreation and acrobatics project on the fourth batch of representative projects of Huai'an City's intangible cultural heritage. Historical evolution and distribution Shanyang Chess Art is a Go art based on the Shanyang Chess School created by Liang Weijin, the leader of the four Go masters in the Qing Dynasty. Liang Weijin (about 1680-1760), with the courtesy name Huijing, was born in the early period of the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. He learned Go since he was a child and was the leader of the four Go masters (Liang Weijin, Cheng Lanru, Fan Xiping, Shi Ding'an). Liang Weijin was listed as the leader of the four masters, not because he had the highest Go skills, but because he was the teacher and friend of Cheng Lanru, Fan Xiping and Shi Ding'an. When Liang Weijin was young, he played many games with Xu Xingyou, and they won and lost against each other. Later, Cheng Lanru defeated Xu Xingyou and became famous in the Go world, and Liang Weijin also competed with him. Deng Yuansui compiled 14 games from the two players and included them in the "Four Great Chess Masters' Records". Cheng won 10 games and Liang won 4 games, but the difference between the two games was not too big, and sometimes the difference was only half a point. In the eighth year of Yongzheng (1730), Liang Weijin played chess with rookies Fan Xiping and Shi Xiangxia many times in Huzhou (now Huzhou, Zhejiang) to teach them the art of chess. Both of them said that they learned a lot from Liang Weijin when they were young. Basic content and important value Liang Weijin's chess style has both the roughness, sharpness and drasticness of the northern chess school, and the exquisiteness, delicacy and softness on the outside and hardness on the inside of the southern chess school, with the biggest feature of ingenuity and variety. Shi Xiangxia said in the preface of "The Guide to the Theory of Go": "Liang Weijin is the winner of the game of ingenuity", and also said: "When we traveled to Xianshan together, we saw the rippling springs, and Weijin was inspired by the idea of 'walking when it is right to walk, and stopping when it is right to stop'". Because Liang Weijin was from Shanyang (now Chuzhou), many chess players in this area respected Liang Weijin's ingenious and changeable style of play, and they were called Shanyang Chess School. The rules of Go are very simple, but there is a very wide space for placing pieces, which makes Go more varied and more complex and profound than other chess games. This is also the charm of Go. At the same time, playing Go is very helpful for the intellectual development of the human brain, which can enhance a person's calculation ability, creativity, thinking ability and judgment ability, and can also improve a person's attention and control. Liang Weijin's ingenious and changeable style of play followed by Shanyang Chess School is more outstanding in this regard. However, due to the lack of successors, the inheritance is worrying and urgently needs to be protected. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)