At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, a kind of "horse hang card" was very popular, and its gameplay was very similar to the way we played mahjong, and at the same time, it was also the earliest "card" in China.
Entertainment. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, it slowly evolved into the mahjong we play today, and it has to be said that people's wisdom is really infinite, and even a "card" is constantly trying to change it.
At that time, people in the Qing Dynasty were very fond of playing mahjong, including Cixi and Puyi. Like the empress dowager and the emperor, they can't go in and out of the palace casually, they stay in the deep palace, they will also feel stuffy, they also need some entertainment to pass the time, and mahjong has become one of their best entertainment methods.
Four people at a table, some talk and some laugh, by luck, by skill to win money, time naturally passes quickly. And Puyi even ordered people to create a luxurious mahjong for him, this mahjong is the "multicolored screw brand", at that time in order to create this pair of mahjong, but it took a lot of effort, just to get this pair of mahjong craftsmen up to dozens of people, they rushed to work day and night to finally create. There were thousands of cards created at that time, and then choose the best one hundred from these thousands. The rest are destroyed. The patterns on the backs of these cards are the same plum blossoms, and these plum blossoms are extremely difficult to carve. It can be seen that the craftsmen at that time also took a lot of effort to complete it.
Later, when Puyi was driven out of the Forbidden City, he did not forget to take this pair of mahjong with him, which shows how much he likes this mahjong. Only to be accidentally lost on the way, and finally picked up by the Japanese. Since then, it has been stored in the "Mahjong Museum" in Japan, and the "Mahjong Museum" in Japan is also the earliest museum in the world. Later, this precious pair of mahjong was released in Japan for more than a hundred years before returning to our motherland.