1. The sweet-scented osmanthus is wet, and the wind blows the lotus leaf bottle. -Xu Hun's Banquet in Shaozhou Post House

Translation: After the banquet, I played chess under the osmanthus tree next to the post house, and the night dew fell and wet the chessboard; A gust of wind blows the lotus leaves, like smelling a bouquet of wine.

2. Gaotian is like a staircase, and Pingtian is like a chess game. -Yang Shen's Out of the Countryside

Translation: The border fields on the hillside are like stairs, and the neat border fields on the plain are like chessboards.

3. Close your sleeves and watch chess thoughtfully, and clearly distinguish the Chu and Han armies. -Yuan Mei's

Translation: Close your sleeves and watch others play chess quietly. It is clear that the two sides of playing chess are the confrontation between the Chu and Han armies.

4. It's hard to match your opponent's chess. -He Zhu's See You in the Rain-repellent Pond

Translation: It's easy to get drunk when you drink the wine, but it's hard to meet your opponent when you play chess.

5. Sit down for two games in a cup, and several pieces of crimson are seated and fly. -Su Shi's

Drinking in Spring and Idle Mountain Laymen: We played chess while drinking, and peach petals occasionally flew down.

6. Don't disturb the truth with the drama, and you can win with me. -Wang Anshi's Chess

Translation: Playing chess is just a game. Why do you have to be emotional? You can just count me as winning.

7. Take all your heart and compete here. -Ouyang Xiu's

Translation: Chess players concentrate on entering the chess world, as if they were isolated from the noisy world and gradually moved away.

8. Two gentlemen in the bamboo forest ponder over it every day. -Li Congqian's "Watching Chess"

Translation: An elegant and leisurely chess player is playing a game, and the two are meditating all day.

9. Monks in the mountains sit against chess, and the bamboo on the board is clear. -Bai Juyi's

Translation: In a quiet landscape, two monks are sitting playing Weiqi. In a cool environment, bamboo trees cover the chessboard.

1. The old wife draws paper as a chess game, and the young child knocks the needle as a hook. -Du Fu's "Jiangcun"

Translation: The old wife is drawing a chessboard with paper, and the younger son is beating the needle medicine to make a fish hook.