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MAHJONG.
A LITTLE AUTHENTIC CHINESE HISTORY.
Since foreigners have taken to the game. the manufacture of mahjong sets has be com quite an industry, rating in substantial increase in foreign trade. Ex- ports for 1991 were about £1,000, in 1992 over £30.000, and for the first ten months FORBIDDEN BY LAW,
of 1923 £250,000. The total for last year (FROM THE TIMES" PEKING CORRESPONDENT, is expected to reach about £40,000. America is the biggest buyer, Hongkong When I tell my Cinsee friends that it is largely for reexport elsewhere) the next, then Canada, Great Britain, Singapore. being said in America and England that Australia France is a good buyer, but of mahjong Bates from the time of Confucius Italy last year took only a singiv seb
the cheapest quality In addition to those they all laugh. Most of them make the visible exports are the immense number of age of the game as it is now played only sets taken away by touriste, Some inter- 50 years, but qualify this statement with eating details regarding manufacture have
become available. Ivory
is used the safe reservation that it may have exist for the fincat sets, costing here 820
only ted in another form at an earlier date, and over. All the rest are mind with
There is a Chinese admiral in Peking to
the shin bones and hind leg bones of cattle, the price for which has risen to whom all foreigners go when they want about £50. a ho. Local supplies being information about Chinese things. The inadequate, considerable imports from Admiral acquired his foreign education Chicago aro supplying the deficiency. in Edinburgh, and is an expert poet and a devoted admirer of Burns. The Admir-C.
al tells me that in a the literature of China there occurs not our single refer- ence to mukjung. He admits that this docs not prove that the game was not known in pleen tiares, because it is not customary in China either in written work or polite conversation, to mention how things, such ne gambler birds, the beauties f drinking, or other forms of vice. nature, parts, music, painting, philous phy, and forth at the legitimate sub- jects, but never anything so ear
earthy as a
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game played for money. As a seafaring man, the Admiral is able to say that the sailors of Ningpo used to
play a game. with, oards marked like the pieces of mah- and that, finding the wind often waited the paper cards overboard, they began to back tea with thin slips of wood. Out of this improvement gradually developed the washer and heavier pikes made of bamboo with a bone or ivory front convenient for cutting and colour. ing. There seems no doubt that the **Cle » of to-day is quite modera inven tion, for in the wonderful array of ald ivory to be found in China, covering a period of nearly a thousand years, no piece having any relation to the kane ever been seer. Many used gets can be bought in the curto shops in Peking. some ivory-faced, artistically cut and de licately tinted, but Aons of any age or any particular value: As most are grimy and contain scratched pieces, these sta find little faveur with foreigners. and none with the Chinese, who will not play with marked tiles. Great Chines. game. blers, in fact, like er-players elsewhere. will play only once with the same set, as a precaution against cheating.
ne has
Another Chinese friend has it that a famous comucender, desirous of keeping his soldiers put of mischief, invented the "game and supplied the men with es of eards with which to amuse themselves bes tween battles, instead of devouring the
countryside. This resourceful officer lived
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matic intervention. New sets are not ob- 67,
tainable in the shops in the Chinese city. And
foreign shope endeavouring to import them are always haring diiculty with the active officials All the same, any func tionary in Peking, from the Chief Execu- tive himself down to the barber who shaves the populace, is keen and expert player. The Chinese ladies are great adepts, as their foreign sisters desirous of a little justruction have found to their cost. They Feel the underside of the tiles with the pink of the it all fingers, and know in- stantly whether they have drawn a plum or something to be contemptuously iced into the boneyard--the word is an Ameri canism, not a Chine Bower of speech.
They have an uncanny, and apparently puconscious understanding of the right thing to do, and the swiknew of their play is only equalled by the necuracy with which in one quick glance they compute everybody's score. Men who play are continually at the game, and the corrup tion and greed of money which charac terize a large proportion of the official classes in to no inconsiderable extent" a re- suit of the gambling for high stakes at mahjung, poker, and other games,
Chin
e law forbids all form of gambling, but the vice is so deeply ingrained in all, from the highest to the lowest, that legni restrictions are of Hittle avail. indeed, gambling is licensed in many of the pro vinces in order that the local authorities may derive a revenue from it.
Mahjong has driven bridge entirely out of the field in several of the foreign come munities in Chine, and in one club, where there used to be ten tables of bridge players of an evening, a rubber is now a matter of the greatest difficulty. Popularity here results partly from the fact that the ladies have a blank hour or two before dinner, while the men go to the cute, during which mahjong with their fills, a vacuum. But the rest with inveterate bridge-players pumue the ather game proves it to high
relaxation. AA
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merit as a is without rival, and we
we hear of parties which play twice the clock round without ceasing, with only snacks instead of regu Jar meals. When the Chinese invite the foreigner to play the hours are set be- tween 6 p.m. and 3 am
FOREIGNERS AND THE CAME
We all think out here that we know a lot more about mahjong that the folk"ät home, for we have under our eyes the theory and practice of our Celestial friends. But the founders of the institu tion ato not so sure of us, as may
by the remark of one spectacled gentleman indulgently watching the play
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