At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, horse hangtags prevailed, and at the same time derived a kind of entertainment equipment called "cards", its cards and gameplay are very similar to today's mahjong, and horse hangtags have an intricate relationship with the oldest entertainment game game in China's history.
According to the "History" and other historical texts, the production of Bo opera at least appeared before the King of Yin, the earliest Bo opera is called "Liu Bo", there are six sticks and 12 chess pieces, the zi is a long shape of bamboo products, equivalent to the dice used in playing mahjong today, most people believe that mahjong was formed in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, by the dice, horse tag and domino and other ancient boju fusion of the new form of game.
So Puyi playing mahjong in the palace is not a very unusual thing, in 1912, only 6 years old Puyi abdicated, the End of the Qing Dynasty, but Puyi still lives in the Forbidden City, and does not have to worry about living expenses, as usual, living the life of the emperor, there is no need to worry about state affairs, has been living for 12 years.
During this period, what did Puyi do? Puyi does not have to approve the folding, nor can he leave the Forbidden City, what he often does is to rub mahjong, in fact, when Empress Dowager Cixi was alive, she often played mahjong, there was a royal Jiyang mahjong, very luxurious, and Puyi's royal mahjong multicolored screw card, the process is cumbersome, far more luxurious than Cixi's Jiyang mahjong.
A set of two sets of multicolored screw cards, slightly larger for men's cards, slightly smaller for women's cards, the pattern on the back of each card is extremely difficult to carve plum blossoms, and the pattern of each card back is consistent, which is amazing, when the Ministry of Internal Affairs made royal mahjong for Puyi, it specially invited dozens of craftsmen to make thousands of mahjong cards overnight.
Then the Ministry of the Interior carefully selected more than 100 identical brands, and those that were not selected were destroyed. Puyi also liked it very much after getting the multicolored screw cards, often took it out to play mahjong with others, in 1924 Puyi was driven out of the Forbidden City by the warlord Feng Yuxiang, and he also took the multicolored screw cards with him.
However, the multicolored screw cards were unfortunately lost on the way, and later picked up by the Japanese, which was stored in the Japanese Mahjong Museum for many years and was the treasure of its town museum; the Japanese Mahjong Museum was the world's first mahjong museum, organized by Kyoichiro Noguchi, president of Takeshi ShoboKuro Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan in 1999.
According to the president of the World Confucius Association in Japan, Kyoichiro Noguchi said before his death: "Mahjong originated from China, and I hope that the Mahjong Museum will return to China!" Later, in 2012, the "Japanese Mahjong Museum" was auctioned in Beijing, but it was cancelled for unknown reasons, but the World Mahjong Organization said on July 16, 2013 that Japan would return to many Chinese collections, including the "Colorful Screw Tungsten Card", and the "Colorful Screw Card" finally returned to the motherland after a hundred years.