The Chinese nation is one of the few people in the world whose history and culture have not been interrupted. Five thousand years up and down shows how resilient our national culture is. I am afraid that there is also the merit of entertainment culture. Mahjong, for example, is said to have been played since five generations and ten countries, so that there is today's mass movement of "one billion people and nine hundred million hemp". For another example, the Shangda people who are popular in the Xiang, Hubei, Chongqing, and Qian areas, it is also called ninety-six, and can also be played with playing cards, which can be regarded as a form of entertainment that has both national characteristics and is in line with international standards. A certain culture, of course, including entertainment culture, is always a certain economic and political twists and turns, do not look at these entertainment projects, their own play is different, but also more or less reflect the secular human feelings at that time. Now, I'll use the playing cards to play double upgrades, three dozen ha, two hundred and four talk about it.
Double upgrade has been played since about the early 1980s, with four people and two decks of cards playing against each other, and 80 points on the pile. This was new at the time. In the past, it was four people, a deck of cards to play the right home, 40 points on the pile; and only overturned 7, it is indeed monotonous. Reform and opening up, the mind has been emancipated, life has been enriched, and all walks of life must have a new atmosphere. The double upgrade is similar to the knockdown 7, and both reflect a spirit of cooperation. The difference is that there is one more pair of poker; the difference is that not only can you play 7, but you can also play from 3 to A. Two pairs of poker, get a big hand, the elderly or people with poor physique may pinch sweat, and everyone is willing to play from 3 to A, from sunset to dawn. And rarely gamble money, and if you lose, you will drill the table, or draw a ghost face or something. At that time, the spirit was so full, and the energy was so abundant!
After all, it is still the reform and opening up, with the intensification of social competition, the "catfish effect" began to appear. The double-upgraded two-by-two cooperation seems to be a return to the light of the previous social unity and cooperation. So, probably from the 1990s, three dozen Ha quietly replaced double upgrades. Three dozen hats, three hits, emphasize the spirit of personal adventure - this is a necessary quality for individual success in a free competition society. Love to fight to win! It is particularly obvious that the three dozen ha are particularly suitable for gambling. If you want to distinguish whether it is the three dozen ha that makes gambling flourish, or whether the gamble makes the three dozen ha in full swing, it is like answering a scientific dilemma of whether there is a chicken or an egg first. Wasn't it advocated eating crabs first? Then you should carry forward the fearless spirit of "Habao"! (We mean "Habao" here for fool.) There are still 8 cards undercover, which is really an irresistible temptation.
Double upgrade, two two opposite; three dozen Ha, three partnerships to play one. It seems that they all talk about cooperation, but is the "cooperation" of these three dozen Ha is too much? Doesn't this once again expose the inferior nature of our national quality? That is pink eye, see no one is good, so the nest fights. Where is the gain without temptation? "Habao", the embodiment of the adventurous spirit of the times. "Habao", who wants to get rich first, has a slightly distinctive card and always wants to gamble. The three people who play "Habao" are also often mentally balanced: let's fly! "Habao" will lose, the gun will shoot the first bird - deserved! The three families unfortunately lost, but also blamed the poor cooperation, so they complained to each other. The reason why sandalwood has been popular for ten years is that it well embodies the contest and run-in between the negative traditions of our nation and the adventurous spirit of the times. (Landlord's poker gameplay is similar)
The competition is the same, the times are different! The cooperation of double upgrading is no longer appropriate, and the three dozen Ha are involved with each other, so let's just run! Now, the 21st century has arrived, and the two hundred and four that keep pace with the times are popular. Come on, three is missing one —no, three people can do the same. Shake off your arms and gamble, see which one is good, see which fortune is good, and gamble until dawn!
You may not believe it, the palm of the big playing cards, the times are different, the gameplay is different, the way of entertainment that came into being, can always reflect the style of the times at that time. This reminds me that more than twenty years ago, we were not popular here in any way in the southeast coast of the "fried land" poker game, even if the migrant workers who went home for the New Year really did a tireless job in order to teach us. "Stir-frying the ground", that is a more exciting way to play than two hundred and four. However, a game like that kind of speculation can only be popular in the coastal areas such as Guangzhou and Shanghai, where the economy is in full swing, especially the stock and securities trading centers. Only the psychological quality of the people there can withstand the "big ups and downs". Here, however, most of the villages live a natural life of "self-sufficiency"; the people in the towns and cities are only small businesses in production and life.
In the future, what poker tricks will we have? I reckon it will eventually settle for solitaire mahjong. Mahjong, our "national essence", the wonder of the Chinese nation's gambling culture. But it needs to change its face and play mahjong made of poker paper, so as not to be like traditional mahjong, built up and surrounded in rows. All in the 21st century, still surrounded, closed, feudal! If China wants to make a greater contribution to mankind, it must come out of the closure, which has long been the consensus of 1.3 billion Chinese. Reflected in mahjong, that is, no longer "surround the Great Wall". I have this confidence that the entertainment brand of card mahjong will rush out of Asia and go to the world. Don't believe it, who set up a "China Card Mahjong Co., Ltd." to operate it, maybe it will be bullish. Only one day, you really see "card mahjong" on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock market quotes, but don't spit out the rice grains!
2007.7.31 Published "Science and Education New Newspaper"