From: Mencius Gao Zi Shang Mencius in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Qiu Yi is also an excellent player in this country. Let Qiu Yi teach two people to play chess, one to concentrate on playing chess, and Qiu Yi listens; Although one person thought it was a swan, he tried to shoot it with his bow. Although I learned chess from the previous one, chess is still not as good as the previous one. Is it because his intelligence is not as good as the former? That's not true.
Yi: Playing chess.
Qiu: Name. People call him Qiu Yi because he is good at playing chess.
Across the country: the whole country.
One: Yes.
Good: good at it, good at it.
Manufacturing: manufacturing.
H: Teaching.
Extended data:
Qiu Yi is the first professional Weiqi player in history and the first Weiqi celebrity engaged in education. With regard to the name of Qiu Yi, Jiao Xun, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, explained in Mencius Justice that the ancient craftsmen were named by their names, such as the Boxer Rebellion and Butufu. The name is Qiu Yi, so Qiu Zhi is its name. Because all countries call it a good game, it is named after Qiu Yi.
Qiu Yi is very lucky. The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period lasted for 500 years. He is the only Go player who left his name and the first player we know. Weiqi is found in the earliest historical records in China. It has a history of 26,700 years since the Spring and Autumn Period. Qiu Yi is the first chess player recorded in Historical Records, and also a "good chess player who knows the world".
Records about him first appeared in Mencius. It can be inferred that Qiu Yi may be a contemporary of Mencius or a little earlier, or that he lived in the early Warring States period. The appearance of masters like Qiu Yi showed that Go was quite popular at that time. To be sure, there is more than one national player like Qiu Yi.
Mencius called Qiu Yi "a good chess player who knows the world". Although there is no specific name, the praise for the kindness of knowing the country has become a symbolic term similar to what later generations called the national hand. Later generations called a master a "contemporary autumn player", which means that his level is equivalent to that of a national player.