★The book The Heaven Trap allows people to understand the universe and the life. It is about Go (Weiqi) and more about wisdom, philosophy, faith and life.
★As the picture book of the mysterious book referred to many times in In the Name of the People, the book is recommended by Nie Weiping, the top Go master in China, in his essay.
★It is just like an original Chinese ink painting full of contemporary oriental artistic charm, extraordinary imagination and philosophy meaning.

What if man plays Go with God? Who will be the winner?
The Heaven Trap attempts to discuss such a proposition. It captures the oriental artistic charm of the text and figuratively describes such a traditional cultural symbol as “Weiqi” with extraordinary imagination and unrestricted flamboyant pictures. Full of visual impact and modern aesthetic emotion, the book draws a Go world containing philosophy and life wisdom.
Originally adapted from a prestigious short story (the story) of Jiao Jian, the picture book is short but meaningful. With unique and unusual imagination, the book forms an amazing Go world, exhibiting the long history and infinite fascination of Go and celebrating the admirable spirit a Go fanatic exerts to explore the mysteries of Go and never admit defeat.

With the valley as flat and square as a Go board and black stones alternating with white snow like pieces, a game of Go was ready appropriately. Yue Tianyi contemplated quite a while to puzzle out the scene that Hun Dun moved stones to keep warm before freezing to death, laying out this game of Go unintentionally. What a Go fanatic! He took a closer look at this game only to discover its marvelous ideas and excellent moves, revealing a majestic and magnificent look. It was the greatest work he had ever seen in his life. Towering mountains stood around the Go board. The blue sky hung down with thick clouds. Eagles hovered over mountain creeks, with sad and shrill howling…
Yue Tianyi was totally shocked and stood for a long while solemn and respectful, with two words coming out of his mouth, “Heaven trap!”
All the others climbed up to the mountain and crowded around Yue Tianyi. Nobody understood why he looked so strange.
They asked one after another, “What did you see? What is Hun Dun doing?”
Yue Tianyi answered, “Playing Go.”
“Whom is he playing with in such a remote mountain?”
Yue Tianyi remained silent for a good while, and said heavily, “God!”
Due to shallow opinion as layfolk, they questioned closely, “Did he win or lose?”
…
“Won by half a point!”

Jiao Jian was born in Shanghai in 1954. He is a top-ranked Chinese author and member of China Writers Association. He has published seven novels and six collections of short stories and novellas, and created three TV drama scripts and one film script; served as the chief planner of the TV series In the Name of the People. His works Depression of Lao Shuang won the 1982 National Excellent Short Story Award (the predecessor of Lu Xun Literature Prize), Laorencang Reservoir won the 1984 National Excellent Novella Award (the predecessor of Lu Xun Literature Prize), and the novel The River of Souls won the 1984 October Arts & Literature Award and was shortlisted for Mao Dun Literature Award. The collection of stories The Heaven Trap remains a best seller with a broad influence.

Yao Li is a freelance illustrator. He graduated from Chinese Painting Major in the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University. His major illustration works include Six Chapters of a Floating Life, Fragments of Memory under the Autumn Lamp, Beauty Ladies in Ci Poems, The Kingdom of Heaven, the Return of the Hunter collection, the Ghost Dog collection and The Works of Chi Zijian for Teenagers. He also created picture books My Teacher and Three Variations on Plum Blossom. He won various awards such as the Best Illustration of the Third Jin Jin Prize of Children’s Literature and the 2018 Bing Xin Children’s Book Award.