Some people call him a traitor. He didn't even attend his mother's funeral in order to obtain Japanese nationality.

In 2003, three generations of chess players Wu Qingyuan, Lin Haifeng and Zhang Xu returned to Taiwan Province. When the then mayor of Taipei presented Wu Qingyuan with the Medal of Honorary Citizen, 90-year-old Wu Qingyuan refused to accept it, stressing: "I am Japanese!" Wu Qingyuan, born in the Ming Dynasty, surnamed Wu, 19 14 was born in Fujian and moved to Beijing in the same year. At the age of seven, he was inspired by his father. At the age of eleven, his father died, and he entered Duan Fu as a guest of Go. He was called "a boy with Go talent" and became famous in Beijing. 14 years old, traveling in Japan. Wu Qingyuan's chess skills are superb, and he has defeated all the top Japanese super players ten times in an unprecedented ten games. Since then, Wu Qingyuan has become a well-deserved chess player, known as the "Showa Chess Saint". The period from 1939 to 1956 is called "Wu Qingyuan era". Wu Qingyuan's Weiqi thought is regarded as a standard by professional players and is known as the God of Weiqi. What is Wu Qingyuan's position in Weiqi? Yang Zhenning commented: "Einstein's position in physics is not as high as Wu Qingyuan's position in Go. Why? Because Einstein is the first in physics, the distance between the second and Einstein is not as big as that between Wu Qingyuan and the second Go player in the 20th century. " Is Wu Qingyuan Japanese or China? He joined Japanese nationality twice in his life, which even he could not understand. A reporter asked, "14 years old, you went to Japan to learn chess, joined Japanese nationality before the war, joined the Republic of China nationality in Taiwan Province Province after the war, and resumed Japanese nationality in your later years. China and Japan have experienced ups and downs in modern times. What is your status? " The old man spoke a few words in Japanese in a weak voice, and his assistant Niu Lili relayed, "Teacher Wu also said that we want world peace, and finally we should maintain good relations." 1960, when Kenzo Seto and his party visited China, Premier Zhou specifically mentioned: "Please bring China next time. I promise to let him go back to Japan. Wu Qingyuan recalled: "I originally came from China, so there is no question of whether I can go back or not. 1936, in order to survive, Wu Qingyuan became a Japanese citizen. 1979, Wu Qingyuan became a Japanese citizen again on the grounds that she didn't even attend her mother's funeral for the sake of her children's employment and schooling. This shows how important Japanese identity is to Wu Qingyuan. Wu Qingyuan declared that "without political language, the world has no national boundaries". In fact, Wu Qingyuan is only a secularist, and survival comes first. 1932, Wu Qingyuan's proposal to become a Japanese citizen was unanimously opposed by overseas Chinese in Japan and the Embassy of China (Japanese nationality must be abolished). Duan, who helped him, was even more opposed, and even his teacher, Mr. Wang, did not support it. Wu Qingyuan finally succeeded in inviting Japanese diplomats to threaten the Embassy of China. Wu Qingyuan said in his autobiography Spirit of China, "The country is at war, and it is not the time to play chess at all." "In China at that time, it was impossible to survive with Go alone. "Wu Qingyuan has a monthly living allowance of 200 yen in Japan, while the salary of Japanese university graduates was only 40 yen. Wu Qingyuan's biggest controversy is not that he is not Japanese, but that he once served Japanese militarism, so he was called a "cultural traitor". 194 1 year, Wu Qingyuan participated in the "chess service meeting" organized by chess players, and joined the army by playing chess. 1942, at the invitation of Kazuo Aoki, a consultant of Nanjing "Wang Pseudo", he accompanied him to China to join the army. After arriving in Shanghai, someone posted a slogan "Kill the traitor Wu Qingyuan" next to the hotel. Wu Qingyuan also advocated the Japanese imperial system, and summed up the great founding spirit with the words of "moving towards great ideals peacefully and firmly, and establishing new systems at the same time". The ideal of "Eight Gardens and One Mansion" is also reflected in the familiar chessboard, because the central star Tianyuan, also known as "Tai Chi", is the most sacred entertainment for our chess players. If it is compared to the royal family with perfect golden gulls, (Wu Qingyuan's four-point understanding of Go was published in the February issue of Chess Way magazine, the organ publication of Japanese chess institute, 194 1) Go is a culture of China, and has nothing to do with Japan's "eight roads are empty". Just to prove that Wu Qingyuan advocates the imperial power system of Japan? As a Japanese, it's nothing to preach in the army. It's just a job, but it's hard for China people to understand. To serve China is to forget your ancestors. Wu Qingyuan defended his behavior like this. "I firmly believe that providence lies in Sino-Japanese friendship, and I have never given up hope that the trend of the times will change. But no matter how much I pray, there is nothing I can do. The doctrine I believe in says,' Without politics, the world has no borders.' So my mood is beyond the nation, beyond the country. However, chess fans' soldiers often write to me, and I always write:' Please don't insult China people!' """Please don't mistreat China people", which makes people feel that this is a Japanese accent. It is a joke that Japan believed in "Sino-Japanese friendship" when it invaded China and slaughtered its compatriots. It's a bit much to say that Wu Qingyuan is a traitor. After all, he doesn't specialize in serving Japan like Zhou Zuoren Hu Lancheng. He is just a Japanese chess player. One thing is certain: Wu Qingyuan has made no contribution to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, let alone patriotism. The famous actor Mei Lanfang has a beard and is determined not to sing for the Japanese. Xie Xiaxun, a national chess player, volunteered to go to Nanyang to raise money to support the Anti-Japanese War, and was known as "one of those who served the country with chess since ancient times". Compared with them, the level of Wu Qingyuan is too low. When the whole people resist Japan, it is politically naive to say that Sino-Japanese friendship is beyond the nation-state. It is obviously too utilitarian and pragmatic for Wu Qingyuan to become a Japanese citizen twice. Wu is a god-like aura in the world of Go, and an ordinary person in life. He became a Japanese citizen, but his China ancestry cannot be erased. After Wu Qingyuan's death, Japanese media commented, "The God of Wu Qingyuan first came from China, but he laid the cornerstone of modern Japanese Go." (Asahi Shimbun) Wu Qingyuan's daughter, Wu Jiacheng, said that his father's views and thoughts on the whole world came from China's traditional culture, which was his principle in doing things. "He always talks about these ancient people in China and what Confucius said in the past." In the final analysis, it was China's cultural genes that created the myth of Wu Qingyuan.