Mahjong this name should be " wipe will " , those who wipe is 108 brave man that Shui Hu sends. According to legend yuan end bright there is a person that is called 10 thousand grasping fars first, the bridge mountain brave man of the wording and purpose of what one writes of Shi Naian of special praise highly, the story that is about to spread Shui Hu lets VIPs also tell water waterside story, cherish his fellow citizen then protect civilian invent mahjong then, in blending in water waterside hero this game. Mahjong is base with 108 pieces, part metaphor 108 brave man. If 9 analogy in the card are " 9 dragon " Shi Jin, 2 Yu Wei " double whip " a surname bright, one cake analogy is " black tornado " Li Kui.
Divide for 10 thousand, cake, 3 kinds, it is to take its oneself the homophonic of the full name. Every kinds from arrive 9 have 4 pieces of cards each, just 108 pieces. 108 are gather together from far and near Liang Shan, add so east, on the west, south, north, midday just be each Tian 4 pieces of card plan 20 pieces. These brave man have poverty of riches and honour each estate, so plus " hair " , " white " metaphor is rich reach end white, increase on 8 pieces of shop signs, entire deputy brand adds up to 136 pieces.
Add all sorts of face cards again later, entire deputy brand adds up to 144 pieces. Have interesting word of a kind of folk additionally, hit mahjong to use north and south of thing of since of all directions desk 4 azimuth, also be to point to the four seasons of Chun Xiaqiu winter, each 13 pieces of cards, because one season has 13 weeks. The four seasons adds up to 52 weeks, in all 364 days, add a piece that when winning, represent a year of the last day in all 365 days, apropos a year. This also is another kind of interesting word.
Origin 2
Mahjong is genetic at protect barn, jiangsu of mahjong card origin too storehouse, this is the conclusion that " of Gu Xinzhi of " of Suzhou essay author studies to reach.
Too the storehouse is royal barn in ancient times, inside the storehouse all the year round corner paddy, in order to offer " south grain north carries " . Barn is set already, sparrow suffers from be born. Ding Yi of the arms that defend a storehouse catchs sparrow make merry, storehouse the official changes encourage for award, send bamboo to make prepare a card to write down several recompense. This prepares on the card quarter to have a word, can use the tool of game; This brand is cumshaw, have negotiable securities value, at be can use be defeated win. This kind of game shedding hands down, evolve finalize the design, became spadger brand, namely today's mahjong. Its play a way, term with catch spadger to concern.
For example canister, all alone, 10 thousand. The pictographic symbol that the design of the canister is firelock (sectional graph) . A few tubes express a few firelock. All alone namely bundle, it is fine bundle of bird sparrow that binds string to come, so of design of one all alone is a bird, rings resembles on 2 all alone, show the leg of bird sparrow, when the government official is checked and accept with bird sufficient computation, bing Ding composes bird sparrow part " bundle " . 10 thousand, namely cumshaw.
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