When was mahjong invented? How many cards are there?

The origin of mahjong is widely discussed, in fact, it is a major invention of Zheng He, an outstanding navigator in the Ming Dynasty of our country. Why did Zheng He invent mahjong? It had a lot to do with his sailing.

During the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He designed a bamboo card game on the ship in order to relieve the boredom of life at sea for the sailors who had been sailing for many years, so mahjong was also known as bamboo cards later. Some of the brand names in Mahjong are really related to navigation. Such as:

The direction of the wind is the most important thing to worry about when going to sea, so the bamboo card game designed by Zheng He starts with the four cards of "east, south, west and north" wind. When the ship docks, it is necessary to anchor the tether, for this reason, in mahjong and designed one to nine (rope) card names. To sail to sea, fresh water is indispensable, and the utensils for the water are bamboo tubes, which have to be lined up in nine rows on the boat, so there are one to nine cylinders in mahjong.

The nine tiles in mahjong are due to the fact that before going to sea, the imperial court allocated 1 to 90,000 strings of copper coins to each crew member according to their rank. The four "flower" cards of "Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter" represent the distinction and change of the four seasons of the year.

The literature records that the inventor of mahjong is Chen Yumen of Ningbo, and his biography records: "Chen Yumen (1 8 1 7 1 8 7 8 ) is the name of the political key, and the number is Yanglou." 144 cards.

During the Ming Dynasty, it was invented by a man named Wan Piao Tiao, and it has developed to 144 cards.

It was discovered in the Ming Dynasty, and it was discovered by Zheng He, when he was going to the Western Ocean, because life at sea was relatively monotonous, to prevent people from being depressed, so he discovered this entertainment project.

It was Zheng He, it was the Ming Dynasty, when he went to the Western Ocean, he found that there was no entertainment equipment on the ship, and then he found that the soldiers on the ship were throwing dice, so he launched a mahjong game in order to stabilize the morale of the army.

According to legend, mahjong was invented during the Ming Dynasty. Mahjong was invented by Wan Bingji, because he was inspired by the Water Margin 108 generals, so he invented mahjong.

The origin of mahjong can be traced back to the leaf opera of the Tang Dynasty. Ouyang Xiu mentioned in his book "Returning to the Field" how leaf opera came about. "The books of the Tang people are all scrolls, and there are leaves behind them.

Where the text is ready for inspection, the scroll is difficult to count Shu, so it is written in leaves. "Leaves are probably bookmarks or sticky notes sandwiched between books. Since the books of the Tang Dynasty mostly used scrolls, it was quite inconvenient to find information, so a few keywords were written on the leaves to facilitate retrieval.

In the Song Dynasty, Yezi Opera reached its peak, and almost became a phenomenal "mobile game" that everyone is familiar with and has swept the country. In the reign of Huizong, some people reformed it according to the rules of leaf opera, and used dominoes made of ivory, which were called Xuanhe cards at the time. What is Xuanhe?

Xuanhe is the era name of Huizong. We can imagine the love for it at that time, from the powerful to the common people.

The leaf opera of the Song Dynasty was not only popular all over the country, but also many monographs came into being. For example, Ouyang Xiu's "Returning to the Field" mentions how Ye Zi Opera was born. Yang Yi, a representative of Xikun poetry, was very obsessed with leaf opera, not only gathering with guests to have fun, but also improving leaf opera.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, because the emperor himself advocated simplicity and curbed entertainment, the spread of leaf opera was not as good as that of the Song Dynasty. However, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the folk customs gradually opened up, the citizen class gradually developed and expanded, and leaf opera, as a game suitable for all ages, continued to become popular on a large scale. On the basis of relatively few original shapes, there are even various forms such as water margin leaves and bogu leaves.

It is not only engraved with words, but also with drawings. Chen Hongshou, a painter in the late Ming Dynasty, collaborated with Huang's carvers to carve out leaf opera plaques that were widely loved by the public.