1964 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica adopted this statement, and even dated it as 2356 BC.
The original game written by Pi Rixiu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said: "The beginning of the game must start from the Warring States period. The disadvantages lie in fraud and the disputes lie in falsehood. Hey! "
In the Ming Dynasty, Chen also put forward the potential truth of Go. According to legend, Yao is a courtier, and some people say that he is a courtier. Later, this statement was also recorded in Dong's Guang Zhi and He Zhi.
Lin Yinglong of the Ming Dynasty believed that Go was successfully invented by Rong in "Love Record". According to "Biography of Immortals", "The person who became a public claimed to be the teacher of the Yellow Emperor, who was found in Zhou Muwang and was good at tutoring.
By the middle of19th century, the level of Japanese Go had already caught up with that of China, and in the following100th century, China was left far behind.
The communication between China and Viet Nam can be traced back to the Qin and Han Dynasties. Jiaozhi County was established in the Western Han Dynasty, covering most parts of Vietnam today. Since then, Viet Nam has been influenced by China culture for a long time. The spread of Go in Vietnam is not recorded in history books, but it is estimated that it will not be later than 12 century. From the Yuan Dynasty to the first year (about 1280), Xu Mingshan was sent to Annan (now Vietnam). In Annan, he once watched the local nobles play chess, and wrote a poem "Watching Chess for the Prince on a Spring Night in Annan", including "Juanjuan is in Qingyuan, and each person has a pot of Xiaotian. * * * With a red candle at the bottom, I wandered under the blue sky in Wan Ren ",which shows that Vietnamese Go was very popular and exquisite at that time.
When Zheng He went to the Western Ocean in the Ming Dynasty, he saw that Go was very popular in Southeast Asian countries. For example, Ma Guan's "Ying Ya Sheng Lan" records the scenery along the way and says: "The customs of the three countries are good ... playing chess." The Three Buddhas and Qi State are part of Indonesia today. This shows that at least before the Ming Dynasty, Go was very popular in Southeast Asian countries.
There are different opinions about the time when Weiqi was introduced into Europe, and it is generally considered as the middle of17th century. For a long time, many Europeans believed that Go was invented by the Japanese. Later, they gradually realized that Weiqi actually first appeared in China.