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Source: Qin Shuo's circle of friends
Author: He Fei
A few days ago, I participated in mainstream media activities, and the souvenir after the meeting was a beautiful gift box. When I got home and opened it, it turned out to be two sets of egg poker.
When will playing cards also enter the souvenir industry!
If you think about it, at least for more than a year, before I participated in various dinners, there were always one or two tables of egg-breaking teams fighting, instead of waiting for tea and chatting before dinner.
As soon as I entered the door, after a brief greeting from my table mates, I got up and humbly said, "You come and have a while", which is said to be the most sincere expression of enthusiasm for the guests.
I basically refuse, "I don't fight, I don't fight, I drink tea, watch you fight." So behind each egg cracking participant, there were one or two spectators.
The dinner party is no longer lengthy, and the time management is good, because after the dinner is over, you have to continue to break eggs, those who don't break eggs can watch the battle, and those who don't watch the battle can scatter away.
I remember from 2000 to the 10s of the 21st century, if there was a next show after dinner, most of them were karaoke or clubbing, and men would sometimes go to entertainment venues...... Now that it's clear and sunny, the popular entertainment method and low-cost games such as egg making have appeared and are gaining momentum.
My friend used to have a badminton circle of friends, but now it has been changed to an egg ring. The friends who used to run half a marathon and the gym also appeared on the egg table with high frequency.
Egg is a kind of poker game that is widely spread in East China, Huai'an and the surrounding areas, originated in the 60s of the last century in the township of Huai'an, Jiangsu, it is said that the inventor is Sun Zhaocheng, an 80-year-old retired cadre in Huai'an.
In the 90s of the last century, Anhui and southern Jiangsu also began to play this card game. In 2014, Huai'an eggs became an intangible cultural heritage of Huai'an City.
However, the real popularity of the egg is still in Beijing. Followed by Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, which were originally a game of exchange and integration of chambers of commerce, and now they are the new favorites of circle socialization.
The first time I saw the egg was before the epidemic, when a civil servant friend from Yancheng, Jiangsu Province came to Shanghai Jiao Tong University for training, and had time to make an appointment to meet.
I watched the game for a while and found that this card game is similar to the complex of "80 points" plus "fighting the landlord" and "fighting for the top".
The players are extremely devoted, or squeezing their eyebrows, or their expressions are solemn, or laughing loudly, or they are silent, or they have a mound corridor in their hearts, or they are thundering on the ground, and the "bomb" in their hands is very infectious.
Eating is no longer important, the eggs are important, and when the cold dishes and the dream blue of the hometown wine and Yanghe are put on the turntable, they are still reluctant to leave the ups and downs of the poker table.
It is not difficult to crack eggs, as long as you have studied full-time college and lived in it, you will soon be able to get started, because poker has been the most common entertainment in college dormitories for a long time. However, it is not easy to crack eggs well, and it requires a certain amount of memory, information collection ability, adaptability, decision-making ability and teamwork ability.
It is not only equipment warfare, but also information warfare, and psychological warfare.
The skills of breaking eggs are nothing more than the formation of cards, handicap, feeding cards, counting cards, distinguishing cards, decks, etc., and there are some so-called formulas such as "the situation is unknown, the pair goes first", "there is a ghost to play a piece, no ghost to play a tamper" and so on.
But as far as I've observed, every deck of cards is full of contingencies and variables, and applying these techniques and formulas is like carving a boat for a sword. Strengths and weaknesses can also be transformed under certain conditions. Success doesn't have to be me, success must have me.
According to incomplete statistics, there are 140 million egg lovers in the country, and more than 20 million people in Jiangsu and Anhui provinces alone often make eggs.
At the end of 2022, the Chess and Card Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China formulated the "Rules for Competitive Egg Breaking Competition (Trial)", and Egg Breaking completed the gorgeous transformation from a folk game to a formal sports competition.
In the past two years, the egg competition has blossomed intensively across the country, with a steady stream of nationwide open competitions, invitational tournaments, finals, championships, etc., and the egg culture forum has also been opened. In the 2023 China Annual Emerging Talent List, Egg won the title of "Game of the Year".
In January 2024, the Shanghai Egg Breaking Association was established, aiming to organize and unite the city's egg sports enthusiasts to do a good job in the popularization and improvement of Shanghai egg sports, promote Shanghai to become a famous egg sports city, help the development of Shanghai's intellectual sports industry to a new level, and strive to show the important position of sports in serving Shanghai to build a new development pattern...... The chairman of Oriental Fortune was elected as the chairman of the first board of directors.
Among the four vice presidents of the council, there is Li Yi, secretary of the general party branch and general manager of Five Star Sports, which has become a very interesting talk in SMG.
"If you don't break eggs before a meal, you don't eat yet, and if you don't break eggs after a meal, you don't eat for nothing";
"If you beat the eggs well, it means that you have a brain, and if you beat the eggs well, it shows that you have a clear mind"
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Ballads praising the eggs are endless. After the epidemic, there are two ways for urban people to get out of the circle: citywalk and egg-breaking. are all related to sports, and they are knowledge-based sports, the former focuses on cultural tourism, and the latter focuses on puzzles.
It is said that now in the magic capital of Shanghai, the main force of the egg is from the political circles, chambers of commerce, high-level intellectuals in the education, science, culture and health system, as well as people in the financial circle.
Egg is a social artifact, the threshold is low but the realm is high, it has a very simple and unique interpersonal lubrication value, region, class, cultural attributes, when you break eggs together, it is cleverly integrated!
I don't often make eggs, but I like to see the looks of my friends and dinner friends when they are doing it. Their expressions are usually relaxed, but their speech is quite like a proverb, with their thumb and index finger and middle finger elegantly touched, and there is a secret competition in their eyes.
In the Yangtze River Delta area, it used to be the mother-in-law observing her son-in-law on the mahjong table, and now it is the father-in-law who uses eggs to inspect her son-in-law. Because the eggs are integrated with various elements related to good character, such as daring, forbearance, profundity, courage, etc., it is a comprehensive embodiment of IQ and emotional intelligence.
In fact, in the past, many social elites in China liked mahjong. Hu Shi was obsessed with mahjong and played mahjong with Pan Guangdan, Luo Longji and others, and Liang Shiqiu watched the trouble next to him. As a result, Hu Shi was defeated again and again - defeated again and again.
He once said: "No one would have dreamed that the vanguard of the Eastern civilization to conquer the West would be those 136 Ma generals!" Usually the person standing behind the loser is not welcome, but what a strength Hu Shi is!
Cheng Naishan has a saying: Shanghainese is called "rubbing" mahjong, which is much more elegant and calm than "playing" mahjong in Cantonese and Taiwanese. "Rubbing" means a kind of fine grinding and kneading leisurely, and there is no need to "hit" so viciously.
And today's "fighting" is obviously an order of magnitude heavier than "fighting".
In the film and television drama, the old Shanghai woman rubbing mahjong is very scene-sensitive: the slippery bun, the well-cut cheongsam sets off the waist, the black dripping bun, delicate makeup and high heels are a must, and the fingers with diamonds, jade, and gemstone rings are holding thin lady's cigarettes, saying meaningful code words.
Women who can sit together and play mahjong are about the same in class and intelligence. If there is a master on the mahjong table, and the other three have a clear one, they will shoot out in the open and secret, and the head family will be happy, and the benefits in the future will naturally be inevitable.
Out of the rush is a university question, to count the cards, the face and hand must be full of drama, can not be too obvious, can not let themselves lose too much, can not let the other two losses too serious.
The mahjong table is a river and lake where you can see the relationship between human nature and characters.
In fact, the same is true for the egg table.
Different from the men and women in the eggs, mahjong is quite stylish.
Many years ago, in "The Red Lantern Hangs High", the fourth aunt bent down to pick up mahjong, but discovered the secret of the third aunt and Dr. Gao.
Mrs. Xiao, Mrs. Zhu, Mrs. Ma, and Mrs. Liao on the mahjong table all had an affair with Mr. Yi, and "Mrs. Mai" Wang Jiazhi completely fell. For the simple beauty Mrs. Mai who came with the purpose of killing him, Mr. Yi was vigilant, pitiful and couldn't help but be emotional.
Mr. Yi played cards for the first time, and took the initiative to feed the cards to Mrs. Mai, who had very poor card skills, but was touched by Mrs. Yi first, and Mrs. Yi's face was not very good-looking. Mr. Yi fed Mrs. Mai cards for the second time, and looked at the cards to Mrs. Zhu, his old lover, and was obviously jealous.
Mrs. Yi glanced at the expressionless Mr. Yi with a smile, knowing that this was his old routine again. Mr. Yi fed the cards again, and when he actually looked down at the phone number written by Mrs. Mai under the pretext of eating mung bean cake, Mrs. Mai won the card, and Mr. Yi frowned and expressed surprise. Mrs. Zhu was not happy......
In the scenes of dark bars, card feeding, shuffling, and card touching, the smiles and every move of card friends and spectators are hidden mysteries, which has become a wonderful way to reflect the current situation and spy on the relationship between Mr. Yi and his wife's party.
There are also similarities between egg cracking and mahjong.
First of all, than the opportunity, the opportunity is good or bad without complaining, just in their own hands in the card than the technical content, this is also the art of being a man and doing things and the city. And the card is the character, just a few rounds of cards, the other party's temperament habits, see the city, you can jump on the table.
Secondly, both eggs and mahjong carry some kind of Eastern philosophy. The process of breaking eggs and mahjong is the process of testing a person's texture, and the bearing, state, psychological quality, edge, and bottom-line thinking are fully revealed.
Like Fang Hongjian in "The Siege", he won a little money by playing mahjong with a woman, so he wrote all his pride on his face, thinking about buying the coat he liked, afraid that others would rely on his money, and yelled to remind him that such a man was destined to be a useless person.
In the process of playing cards, people who can calm down, not impetuous, pampered and not frightened, can be retracted freely and are difficult to find flaws, and can quickly find out the situation of several parties, and will inevitably have good strength in real life.
The ancient and modern cards of the world are a game, why do you have to judge whether you win or lose. The cards are small and big, and the eggs are actually very similar to real life, and we must make reasonable decisions quickly based on the asymmetric information of the moment, and any decision should focus on things that have a high probability of success.
Nowadays, where there are eggs, there are connections, laughter, traffic and fans. Although the name of the egg is earthy, it is substantially advanced, containing strong Chinese cultural characteristics, flashing with the light of philosophy, and gradually becoming popular among overseas Chinese.
Nowadays, the earthy egg has an official name: 掼牌. It brings together people from all over the world and all walks of life to become the hard currency of urban intellectual socialization.