Analysis And Interpretation Of The "Horse-Thrashing" Rules In Ancient Chinese Chess Game

“Thrashing the horse” was a very popular game in the Song Dynasty.However,for various reasons,“thrashing the horse” was gradually marginalized in folk games,becoming a traditional game walking in the disappearance.Li Qingzhao's Illustration of Thrashing the Horse recorded the horse-thrashing rules in detail,which was a rare historical material for studying the rules of the game.Fortunately,today we can rely on the Illustration of Thrashing the Horse to restore the details of the rules of hitting horses,and provide the textual basis for in-depth study of the horse-thrashing rules.The horse-thrashing rules were rich in content.The thesis clarified the horse-thrashing rules based on Li Qingzhao's Illustration of Thrashing the Horse.At the same time,referring to other historical documents,materials and textual research on modern scholars,it traced,reproduced,analyzed and interpreted the horse-thrashing rules from various angles,and analyzed the deep meaning contained in the horse-thrashing rules and its function in the aspect of history and culture.The thesis was divided into four parts.The first part introduced Li Qingzhao and the specific historical background when he wrote Illustration of Thrashing the Horse,expounded the nature of the game,studied the version of Illustration of Thrashing the Horse,and gave a brief description of its text.The second part took the text of Illustration of Thrashing the Horse in Zhou Lujing's Yimen guangdu in the Ming Dynasty as the research object,restored and stated the horse-thrashing rules.Through the analysis of the role of the horse-thrashing rules,the third part held thatthe horse-thrashing rules ensured that the game was carried out by constraining the players.In the course of the game,players can formulate a reasonable strategy through the reasonable use of the rules,reflecting the game theory in the horse-thrashing rules.Through the interpretation of the specific rules and characteristics of thrashing the horse,the fourth part held that thrashing the horse was a game of luck and strategy.The interestingness and limitation of the horse-thrashing rules were explored in a dialectical way.From the macro level,the thesis put the horse-thrashing rules in the big social background,and expounded the connotation value of thrashing the horse.