Is Wu Qingyuan a national hero or a historical sinner?

It’s hard to say. Individuals have different opinions and look at issues from different angles. Jin Yong once said: "Because Mr. Wu's chess skills are not purely based on some superb and exquisite moves, but on the spirit and realm behind the chess game... What Mr. Wu has been pursuing throughout his life is actually a noble soul. Just because he His worldly career is playing chess, so this noble soul is reflected in his chess skills. "A historical sinner, I guess Jin Yong would not praise him like this. "Because Japan launched a war of aggression against China, Wu Qingyuan was invincible in Japan, which to a certain extent enhanced the self-confidence of the Chinese people." This is an excerpt from the introduction of 360.

In 1934, Wu Qingyuan was promoted to 6th Dan and went to Manchukuo to play chess with Fu Yi, the emperor of Manchukuo, as part of the "Japanese-Manchurian-Chinese Go Friendly Visiting Group".

In April 1936, when Japan had occupied a large area of ??Chinese territory, it ignored the unanimous opposition of overseas Chinese in Japan and became a Japanese citizen.

In 1941, he formed the "Chess Report to Congress" with Japanese chess players and joined the labor force.

In 1942, at the invitation of Kazuo Aoki, advisor to the Nanjing government of Wang Puppet, he went to Shanghai to condolences to the Japanese invaders. At that time, some patriots put up slogans in the hotel saying "Kill the barbarian traitor Wu Qingyuan".

In February 1942, Wu Qingyuan married Nakahara Kazuko, a girl from Tokyo Higher Normal School, and moved to Nakahara Kazuko's home after the marriage.

In 1965, he went to Taiwan to meet Chiang Kai-shek.

In 1979, Wu Qingyuan became a Japanese citizen again.

In 1985, Wu Qingyuan visited mainland China for the first time after the war.

The above is his life story.

I found a relatively pertinent evaluation on Sina: "The genius Wu Qingyuan, known as the "first player of Go in ancient and modern times", went to Japan from China to study in his youth. It was originally a two-thousand-year-old relationship between the two countries. Cultural exchanges are a good deed and a beautiful thing, but times have changed. The era when Wu went to Japan to grow up and make professional achievements coincided with the darkest page in the two thousand years of exchanges between China and Japan. Japanese militarism fully invaded China, and the Chinese The nation resisted with blood, and Wu Qingyuan, a symbol of Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges, gradually became embarrassed. The entanglement of his inner identity, the reciprocity of nationality at the legal level, and the emotional projection of the politics and public of the two countries made this simple genius facing He was confused by the hostilities between his country of residence and his home country, and he was confused about the political significance imposed on him by the outside world.

In the final analysis, Wu Qingyuan is a chess player and a chess player. An artist on the chessboard. In the final analysis, Wu's life can be understood and evaluated based on his relationship with Go. The labels "cultural traitor" and "anti-Japanese hero" given to Wu at different times are indeed two extremes that cannot be tolerated in life. "