Gobang, also known as Lian, Zhu Zhu, Wu Mu, Wu Mu Mo, etc. It is one of the traditional black and white chess games that originated in ancient China. As early as before "Yao made Weiqi", people may have gobang. It is also said that Gobang originated from Weiqi and was first popular in ethnic minority areas.

It is not clear when gobang was spread abroad. Together with Weiqi, it was introduced to Korea, Japan and other places during the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. According to Japanese historical documents, China ancient gobang was first introduced to Korea from China, and then introduced to Japan from Korea during the period of 1688 to 1704 in Lu Yuan. In the thirty-second year of Meiji in Japan (A.D. 1899), the name "Julian" was officially confirmed after public collection of names. Since then, Julian's activity has been continuously improved, mainly due to changes in the rules.

1On August 8th, 988, the International Julian Union (RIF) was founded in Sweden by nine member countries including Japan, Russia, Sweden, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, France, Latvia and Belarus.

I don't know who invented it, and there is no historical record. I hope the landlord can adopt it.