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HOW OLD IS MAH-JONG ?
fAY BIRE. DENISON Ross, Director, Schont of Oriental Studies, "Landons!
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It is not in coctretion with the gaine of Mah-Jong as such that I offer the follow ing remarks, but only in connection with its origin. Heartily as Lapprove of other | people gambling, it is a matter of total indifference to me whether they play Mab Jong or Bridge-both have the sime deteer of depriving non-players of the society of charming women and men, so I accept both in silence.
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we learnt the truth about the origin of this game. which, as far as 1 can judge grow simultaneou-ly popularity and anti-
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its secess is due to its very age. Chess, draughts, and polo are, we know, nearly as old as man himself, bhe on what authority is Mah Jong included among the ancients?
Can anyone produce a book in any Language written more than twenty years ago, which makes allusion to the Rae or to any game at all resembling
it!
The name Mah Jong" is a corruption house of Ma-chino," which means a sparrow. In no dialect is chino pro nounced, jong, How then did the name come inta bring! The tile bearing Chinese characters are evitably beautiful, b cause there is much thing as an ugly Chinese character 1 properly writton. But surely it would be difficulty to find anything in Chinese art so unsightly as the bamboos and circles "7-1 Feel it is hard to believe these tiles were de signed by the Chinese themselves,
Why, again, is the sign which is called "' character' so called The sign is the common contraction of ad elaborate char- acter, found in some sets, called an. meaning ten thousand."
I am fully aware of the" fact that the game has won as great a popularity among the Chinese as among the Ameri- cans and the English; but it is strange to find the Chinese accepting the inac curate torniinology adopted by English. speaking peoples. This may perhaps be accounted for by the circumstanco. that to Chinese gentlemen, unless they happen come from the same part of China, ploy English for purposes of conversation, though for purposes of correspondence they would naturally employ the Chinese language and characters,"
In conclusion, I ask if any referenco
to the origin of this popular game can be traced in a work written before the game reached America-Daly Mail.
Sir Willian Wilkin-on, Batharapton, Bath, writes: "Mah-jong" (na-ch'iao) iste the name of the game itself bat of the cards with which it and several other Chief Chinese card games are played. among these i Khanhoo, brought out in English guise in 1891. The true namn of **Mah-jong is Chung-fa; and Chung-fa sers were described by me in the catalogue Tulane of the collection of the Chinese playing-cards which I exhibited at the World Fair in 1893.
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