Taking the millennium chess records of Songyan Ninghun as the sutra, and the broken mountains and rivers that fell in the late Qing Dynasty as the latitude, Jia Ye, the successor of Jia Xuan, the national master of the Northern Song Dynasty, was born on the night of the 15th day of the first lunar month in the 20th year of Jiaqing. The family has only the remains of the old chess records. He understood the legacy of Go in the Qing Dynasty in the market, and together with Zhou Xiaosong and Chen Zixian, he was known as the "Three Masters of the Late Qing Dynasty".
When the gates of the country were opened and the Chinese chess skills were declining, he traveled east to the archipelago and swept through the four major Japanese chess gates under a pseudonym. He had three chess games with Honinbo Hideza, and all managed to win with half an eye, making the Japanese chess world bow in admiration that the Chinese chess skills were still intact.
After returning for half his life, he witnessed the flames of the Opium War, witnessed the chaos of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, watched old friends wither away, and the country's fortunes decline, becoming the last keeper of Go in ancient China.
When the sound of Weihaiwei's cannons tore through the sky. Eighty-year-old Jia Ye gave birth to his last son in a ruined temple on Liugong Island. He used his life as a pen, mountains and rivers as paper, and his life-polished ink to write a heavy stroke in history.
