The origin of mahjong? Where did Mahjong originate?

Mahjong, a four-person domino game, is popular in the Chinese cultural circle. Originated in China, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao and southern Fujian, commonly known as sparrows, gambling games and entertainment appliances invented by the ancient Chinese, generally made of bamboo, bone or plastic, small rectangular squares with patterns or words engraved on them.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the horse tag was prevalent at the same time, and a kind of entertainment utensils called "solitaire" (also called Mohe card) were derived from the horse tag. Solitaire cards are also played by four people, and the cards made of paper are about two inches long and less than an inch wide. There are a total of 60 cards at the beginning, divided into three suits: money, Suozi, and Wanguan, and the three colors are two from one to nine, and two of the first three colors (that is, mahjong tiles in the middle, hair, and white).

When fighting cards, each of the four people takes ten cards first, and then takes cards and plays cards in turn. Three cards in a row are called one deck, and the one with three decks plus a pair wins. The title of winning hand is called "and" (yinhu).

One plays the card, two or even three at the same time to tell, to win the card first. These cards and how they are played are very similar to today's mahjong tiles.

That's a very good question! I like to play mahjong so much and I don't know where it comes from, I'm ashamed!

Mahjong originated from the Jiangsu Taicang grain protection card, which is used to record the rewards of the granary bird catcher, which is divided into three types: cylinder, rope and ten thousand.

The pattern of the barrel is derived from the cross-section of the powder gun, and the barrels represent several powder guns; A rope is a bird strung with a string to indicate how many finches have been eliminated.

Therefore, the pattern of a rope is represented by a bird, and a few ropes are several bunches of birds, and the bonus is calculated according to the number of birds; Ten thousand is the unit of reward, and tens of thousands is the number of rewards received. This type of card gradually became entertaining and developed into today's mahjong.

Many people can play mahjong, and it is estimated that few people know how mahjong was invented? Who invented it? What is the origin? Mahjong was also called sparrow and finch cards before, let's take a look at the origin of mahjong.

According to legend, as early as the Tang Dynasty, someone invented the prototype of mahjong, Tang Dynasty Weizhou Changle, that is, now Changle County, Henan, there is a person named Zhang Sui, is an astronomer, mathematician, he has compiled a set of cards, each card size is the same, width centimeters, length 15 centimeters, each card is also printed with "10,000", "Suo", "tube" pattern, and then increased the southeast and northwest in the white card, in fact, Wan, Suo, Tube is the concept of the ancient amount of money, but the advantages and disadvantages of cards, is inconvenient to hold in the hand.

However, when going to sea, the ship needed fresh water, and the container for water at that time was a "bamboo tube", so it was later added 1-9 cylinders, and then increased by 1-90,000 for various reasons (the Qing Dynasty distributed 1-90,000 strings of copper coins to each crew member in accordance with the regulations), plus the "hair", "middle", and "white", because of the perennial navigation, through spring, summer, autumn and winter, these four "flower" cards were added to represent the changes of the four seasons.

Wan Bingzhen said that according to legend, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the early years of the Ming Dynasty, there was a person named Wan Bingzhen, who liked the 108 heroes in "Water Margin" very much, and wanted to make the aristocratic families and dignitaries also familiar with the heroes of Liangshan, so 108 will be integrated into people's games, mahjong will be 108 as the base, respectively, representing each hero, such as nine is "nine dragon Shi Jin", two is "double whip Hu Yan Zhuo", and one cake is "black whirlwind Li Kui", because these Liangshan heroes are gathered from all over the world, Therefore, it has increased the southeast, northwest, and middle, and the Liangshan heroes are rich and poor, so the hair and white have been increased, but I don't believe much in this statement.

Some people say that the square table used in mahjong is to represent the four directions of the southeast, northwest and northwest, and also refers to the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and because there are 13 weeks in a season, so each person has 13 cards, and the 4 seasons add up to a total of 52 weeks, a total of 364 days, plus the one that won just happened to be a year.

Who invented it is also a matter of opinion, but in the end it arose in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and now every household is happy with it.

Mahjong is an entertainment tool invented by the Chinese, but there is also a historical background story to the process of its invention.

It is said that during Zheng He's seven long voyages to the West, many soldiers suffered from monotony and homesickness due to the monotony of life at sea, and their spirits were depressed and even became ill. Zheng He decided to make a new entertainment tool that was easy to make and easy to learn, preferably with multiple people at the same time. Zheng He finally came up with the idea of using local materials, using the existing bamboo on the ship to make bamboo cards, engrave text patterns, and then formulate the rules of the game, and put them on the square table for the four of them to entertain at the same time.

In the determination of the text pattern, in order to cater to the psychology of the soldiers and the reality of navigation, Zheng He also used his brains. For example, the red "middle" represents the land of the Central Plains, catering to the homesickness of the soldiers, because the sailing was used in the sailing of the year, so the soldiers were very concerned about the direction of the wind, so the bamboo plate was engraved with the "east", "south", "west", "north" wind and so on.

With these 136 bamboo plaques, the crew on the ship really indulged in it and stopped getting into trouble. It is now known as the "essence of the nation" mahjong. When Zheng He invented mahjong, he probably didn't think that it had now become a black hole, it had developed into a common form of gambling, attracting countless amounts of money, not only taking up a lot of people's entertainment time, but also causing countless families to be torn apart, entertainment can, but stay away from gambling.

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Analysis: Once upon a time, there was a man named Maqi, who was smart, hardworking, and competitive, but lived a life of poverty.

One day, a great general returned to the court in victory, dressed in red and hung colors, and rode on a high-headed horse to parade the streets. Local citizens are crowded on the side of the street**. Ma Qi and his companions were also fighting in it, he looked at the majestic general on all sides, and said to his companions:

I will also be a general in the future, so I will be majestic. ”

Since then, he has been practicing martial arts in the morning and in the dark. When his companions saw that he really wanted to be a general, they gave him a nickname and called him "Mahjong".

Mahjong has the skill of rubbing hemp rope with one hand, which is fast and good, and there are many people who invite him. In this way, he saved a sum of money by saving money, and mahjong started to sell hemp rope, and he secretly swore in his heart that he would be a millionaire if he didn't want to be a general!

Mahjong is prepared with thin hemp rope of different sizes, and when he earns a copper, he wears it with a thin rope, and he still loves to read: "One copper, two copper, three copper......"After the nine coppers, add another bronze, and hang it in a circle, and call it a bunch. One, two, three ......After nine bunches, add one more bunch and it is called 10,000.

He prepared four tabula rasa boxes. The first goal is to save up 100,000, exactly 4 large boxes. Mahjong has worked hard, and finally accumulated 90,000, and his friends persuaded him:

Mahjong, you have gone through spring, summer, autumn and winter, has been two sideburns silver frost, you have experienced the joy of watching Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum all over the country, but also tasted all over the east, west, north and south, endure the pain of wind, frost, rain and snow, do not want to get rich, but also take care of your body, manage the air to teach the world to discipline the children, enjoy the blessings of old age. Mahjong listened to it and felt reasonable, so he went home.

But when Mahjong came home, he couldn't help but be stunned, the 4 crates were empty!

It turned out that mahjong was all focused on money, ignoring the education of his children, his son Hongzhong, building a house, marrying a wife, and giving birth to a son all engaged in pomp, squandering money, and spending his life's hard-earned money to nothing. When Mahjong learned the truth, he was so angry that he smashed 4 tabula rasa boxes to pieces, and soon died of illness.

Mahjong's friends rushed to help with the aftermath when they heard the news, and they collected the smashed whiteboard boxes, saying that it was strange that these pieces were about the same size, a total of 144 pieces. In order to commemorate mahjong, they engraved the life experience of mahjong on the wooden board, so there are tubes, bundles, 10,000, southeast and northwest winds, Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum, fortune, whiteboard, red, called "mahjong cards". Since then, mahjong tiles have been spread among the people.