![]() Those of us who used earlier versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system likely remember a game called Mahjong using these tiles that was installed as a default program in the "Games" folder next to Minesweeper and Solitaire. The tiles, traditionally made of bamboo or ivory but nowadays usually of acrylic or plastic, are shuffled and stacked, lined up and rearranged, drawn and discarded until a winner emerges. ![]() But, of course, when thinking of traditional Chinese games, the first to come to mind for most is mahjong (麻将 majiang in Chinese pinyin).Įven if you're not well-versed in how the game is played, you very likely are at least vaguely familiar with how the game looks, with its various rectangular tiles embossed with Chinese characters, circles, lines, numbers and other symbols. ![]() ![]() Gaming culture has long been alive and well here in China as a pastime, from the ancient precursor to modern-day football known as cuju to Chinese chess ( xiangqi), to the plethora of games played in China today using regular playing cards. ![]()
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