How many cards are there in a mahjong deck?

Mahjong has 136 cards per deck, but the number of mahjong cards varies from place to place. The number of mahjong tiles in South China is 144, plus eight tiles: spring, summer, autumn and winter, plum, bamboo, orchid and chrysanthemum. Some places also have mahjong, plus cornucopia, god of wealth, mouse and cat 1 card, clown 4 cards. The number of mahjong is 152. Mahjong originated in China, which is a game method invented by the ancients.

The earliest carrier of mahjong was bamboo weaving. The wide bamboo strips were cut into pieces about 18 cm long, with elements of mahjong painted on them, similar to the cards prevailing in rural areas in the 1980s. Mahjong is also complicated and interesting. Its basic gameplay is simple and easy to use, but there are many changes, and the collocation varies from person to person.

Mahjong cards are also called sparrow cards and sparrow cards. According to relevant data, there used to be a royal granary in Taicang City, Jiangsu Province, which hoarded rice for the "South Grain to North Transfer Project" all the year round. In order to reward the bird catcher and protect the grain, the officials in charge of the granary recorded the number of birds with bamboo pieces and paid them accordingly. This is Taicang's "food protection card". In Taicang dialect, the pronunciation of "sparrow" and "mahjong" is similar, so the sparrow card is also called mahjong.

After the mahjong tiles were formed, they were very popular from the imperial court to the common people. Ordinary people also get pleasure from playing mahjong. A lucky man wrote a poem: "Today, we won the money, and we arranged the right chess. Three yuan (white) and four joys (southeast and northwest), slam meets all. Flowers are spontaneous, and the moon catches fish from the sea. If you leave, you will avoid friends and be afraid of being hit. "