{"id":6218,"date":"2019-11-09T13:09:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T13:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/ma-jiang-mahjong\/"},"modified":"2019-11-09T13:09:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T13:09:28","slug":"ma-jiang-mahjong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/ma-jiang-mahjong\/","title":{"rendered":"\u9ebb\u5c06 Mahjong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>This year&#8217;s World Mahjong Masters in the city of Kunming,  southwest China&#8217;s Yunnan province, attracted more than one hundred  participants from five countries and regions. The three day event lasts  from June 6 to 8. Many competitors are seniors. Do you know what Mahjong  is?<\/p>\n<p>  <\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Mahjong(\u9ebb\u5c06),<\/strong> also spelled majiang, mah jongg, and  numerous other variants, is a game that originated in China. It is  commo<em><\/em>nly played by four players (with some three-player variations found  in South Korea and Japan). The game and its regio<em><\/em>nal variants are  widely played throughout Eastern and South Eastern Asia and have a small  following in Western countries. Similar to the Western card game rummy,  mahjong is a game of skill, strategy, and calculation and involves a  degree of chance.<\/p>\n<p>As it is played with tiles, mahjong is also jokingly called a game to  &quot;move&quot; or &quot;lay&quot; bricks in China. Legend has it that mahjong was  invented by an ancient Chinese strategist who used tiles to mock battle  formations. A full set of mahjong commo<em><\/em>nly co<em><\/em>ntains 136 tiles, including  36 sticks (or bamboos, numbered 1 to 9,4 of each number), 36 dots (or  circles, numbered 1 to 9,4 of each number),12 dragons (4 red,4 green,4  white dragons), and 16 winds (4 east,4 south, 4 west, 4 north winds).  These do not include eight flowers, which are added in the midst of a  mahjong game.<br \/>  &nbsp;<br \/>  Among the tiles, a stick represents the spear, a  dot the shield, and a crack a troop. The east, west, south and north  winds represent the guardian generals of the four doors. The character  &quot;zhong&quot; denotes the commander, and the &quot;fa&quot; represents the officer that  delivers the commander&#8217;s orders. Blank tiles represent reserved forces.<br \/>  &nbsp;<br \/>  The  game is usually played by four individuals each holding 13 tiles. The  object of the play is to obtain sets of tiles, and the winner is the  first player to hole four sets and a pair of like tiles. In old days,  the mahjong was played for gambling; today it is still a fad around the  country.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><font size=\"4\">Bilingual Majong Terms<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191121_5dd5766cb7783.jpg\" alt=\"\u9ebb\u5c06 Mahjong\" \/><\/p>\n<p>  <strong><br type=\"_moz\" \/>  <\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-417192475\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahjong(\u9ebb\u5c06), also spelled majiang, mah jongg, and  numerous other variants, is a game that originated in China. It is  commonly played by four players (with some three-player variations found  in South Korea and Japan). The game and its regional variants are  widely played throughout Eastern and South Eastern Asia and have a small  following in Western countries. Similar to the Western card game rummy,  mahjong is a game of skill, strategy, and calculation and involves a  degree of chance.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-6218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-traditional-chinese-festivals","tag-ancient-chinese"],"views":484,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}