Go and Chinese Culture

Author: He Yunbo
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Publish Date: 2001-11-01
Features: Go and Chinese Culture attempts to explore the connections between Go and Chinese culture from multiple aspects. Culture is generally divided into three levels: material, institutional, and spiritual. Regarding Go, the game equipment and the place of play constitute its material cultural level. The game equipment is not only a tool for playing Go but also becomes an art craft. Different people's choices of game equipment and playing venues reflect their life attitudes, spiritual pursuits, and aesthetic tastes. The rules of the game, competition systems, organizational structures, and ways of playing constitute an institutional behavioral culture. Of course, culture is more reflected in the spiritual aspect, and the author's exploration of Chinese Go culture tends to focus on the spiritual and psychological aspects, highlighting the relationship between Go and life, various philosophical and religious thoughts, as well as national psychology and modes of thinking.