Editing Go (game) (section)

=== Origin in China ===
The earliest written reference to the game is generally recognized as the historical annal ''[[Zuo Zhuan]]''<ref name="The Tso Chuan book" />{{sfn|Fairbairn|1995|p={{page needed|date=May 2014}}}} ({{circa|4th century}} BCE),<ref name="chronology2" /> referring to a historical event of 548&nbsp;BCE. It is also mentioned in Book XVII of the ''[[Analects of Confucius]]''<ref name=chronology2 /> and in two books written by [[Mencius]]{{sfn|Fairbairn|1995|p={{page needed|date=May 2014}}}}<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Potter|first=Donald L.|year=1984|title=Go in the Classics|magazine=[[Go World]]|issue=37|publisher=Ishi Press|location=Tokyo|pages=16–18}}<br/>– {{cite magazine|last=Potter|first=Donald L.|year=1985|title=Go in the Classics (ii): the Tso-chuan|magazine=[[Go World]]|issue=42|publisher=Ishi Press|location=Tokyo|pages=19–21}}<br/>Via {{cite web|title=Go in the Classics|publisher=Kiseido Publishing Company|url=http://www.kiseido.com/classics.htm|access-date=2007-11-02|archive-date=2010-12-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218113923/http://kiseido.com/classics.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> ({{circa|3rd century}} BCE).<ref name=chronology2 /> In all of these works, the game is referred to as {{transliteration|zh|ISO|''yì''}} ({{lang|zh-Hant|弈}}). Today, in China, it is known as '''''weiqi''''' ({{lang-zh|t=圍棋|s=围棋|p={{audio|Zh-wéiqí.ogg|wéiqí|help=no}}|w=wei ch'i}}), {{lit|encirclement board game}}.

Go was originally played on a 17×17 line grid, but a 19×19 grid became standard by the time of the [[Tang dynasty]] (618–907 CE).{{sfn|Fairbairn|1995|p={{page needed|date=May 2014}}}} Legends trace the origin of the game to the mythical [[Emperor of China|Chinese emperor]] [[Emperor Yao|Yao]] (2337–2258 BCE), who was said to have had his counselor [[Shun (Chinese leader)|Shun]] design it for his unruly son, [[Danzhu]], to favorably influence him.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Yang |first1=Lihui |last2=An |first2=Deming |title=Handbook of Chinese Mythology |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-533263-6 |page=228 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gGD5go6iCUYC&dq=eldest+son%2C+danzhu&pg=PA228 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last1=Yang |first1=Lihui |title=Handbook of Chinese mythology |year=2005 |publisher=ABC-CLIO Ltd |isbn=978-1-57607-806-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wf40ofEMGzIC&q=Yao+is+said+to+have+invented+the+game+of+Weiqi&pg=PA228 |first2=Deming|last2=An|first3=Jessica Anderson |last3=Turner |page=228}}</ref> Other theories suggest that the game was derived from Chinese tribal warlords and generals, who used pieces of stone to map out attacking positions.{{sfn|Masayoshi|2005|p={{page needed|date=May 2014}}}}{{sfn|Lasker|1960|p={{page needed|date=May 2014}}}}

In China, Go had an important status among elites and was associated with ideas of self-cultivation, wisdom, and gentlemanly ideals.<ref name="Berge-Becker">{{Cite book |last=Berge-Becker |first=Zach |title=Games & Play in Chinese & Sinophone Cultures |date=2024 |publisher=[[University of Washington Press]] |isbn=9780295752402 |editor-last=Guo |editor-first=Li |location=Seattle, WA |pages= |chapter=Groups on the Grid: Weiqi Cultures in Song-Yuan-Ming China |editor-last2=Eyman |editor-first2=Douglas |editor-last3=Sun |editor-first3=Hongmei}}</ref>{{Rp|page=23}} It was considered one of the [[Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar|four cultivated arts]] of the [[Junzi|Chinese scholar gentleman]], along with [[Chinese calligraphy|calligraphy]], [[Chinese painting|painting]] and playing the musical instrument [[guqin]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Pinckard|first=William|title=The Four Accomplishments|year=1989|url= http://www.kiseido.com/printss/four.html|access-date=2007-11-02|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080625104739/http://www.kiseido.com/printss/four.html|archive-date=2008-06-25|url-status=dead}} In {{Cite book|last=Pinckard|first=William|editor-last=Akiko|editor-first=Kitagawa|date=2010|title=Japanese Prints and the World of Go|publisher=Kiseido Publishing Company|isbn=978-4-90657430-8|url= http://www.kiseido.com/printss/ukiyoedx.html|url-status=dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080316051106/http://www.kiseido.com/printss/ukiyoedx.html|archive-date=2008-03-16}}</ref> In ancient times the rules of Go were passed on verbally, rather than being written down.{{sfn|Chen|2011|p=1}}

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File:Sui Dynasty Go Board.jpg|Model of a 19×19 Go board, from a tomb of the [[Sui dynasty]] (581–618 CE)
File:A Lady Playing Chess (Weiqi) - Google Art Project.jpg|Painting of a woman playing Go, from the [[Astana Graves]]. Tang dynasty, {{circa|744 CE}}.
File:Zhou Wenju 重屏会棋图 Palace Museum, Detail of Go Players.jpg|[[Li Jing (Southern Tang)|Li Jing]] playing Go with his brothers. Detail from a painting by [[Zhou Wenju]] ({{Floruit|942–961 CE}}), [[Southern Tang]] dynasty.
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