1, shuffling The cards are all reversed so that the cards are face down. The player's hands are rubbed together to create an even and unorganized movement of the cards, known as "shuffling".

2, yards of cards: After washing evenly, each person yards of 36 cards, two cards up and down the stack together for a pier, each for 18 piers, and yards into a wall of cards in front of their own door, the four wall of cards left and right into a square.

3, open tiles: National standard mahjong, the dealer rolls the dice, the sum of the two dice points is the base of the open tiles. With the dealer as the first, according to the counterclockwise order of points, count to the position of the points for the opening of the wall of tiles. From right to left in order to count to the same as the number of points of the pier, the dealer began to grab the next two pier cards, the next family and then in clockwise order to grab cards, until each person grabbed 3 times *** 12 cards, and then by the dealer jumped (every other pier) to grab the upper two cards, the other people in turn, each grabbed a card. The dealer **** has 14 cards and everyone else has 13 cards each.

4, the cards, review the cards, fill the flower: classification of the cards in the hand, neatly arranged, review the card situation. If there is a flower in your hand, the first thing the dealer does is to take a card from the end of the wall. The other three players take their turn to make up the hwatu one by one, and if they come back with a hwatu, they wait until the end of the round to make up the hwatu.

5, line of cards: line of cards is the process of playing cards. The process starts with the dealer playing the first card, and includes catching, playing, eating, touching, opening (kong, kong), and replenishing until you get to the end of the round or the end of the round.

Mahjong tiles are categorized as follows:

The first type of mahjong is the numbered tiles, which are divided into three categories: "Tubes/Biscuits", "Suozi/Strips", and "Ten Thousand Tiles". The number of cards in the sequence from one to nine are four each (three doors***108 cards).

The second category is the word tiles, which include the four "wind tiles/four happiness tiles" of "east, south, west and north" and the three "arrow tiles/three yuan tiles" of "center, hair and white". Arrow/Three Dollar Tiles", each of which has four tiles (28 tiles in seven suits***). Thus the mahjong used for the game has 136 basic tiles.

Additionally, Southeast Asian countries will add an extra hundred tiles, one of which is a hundred tiles each of biscuits, strips, ten thousand tiles, and character tiles; and Hong Kong, Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan, Nanchang, Beijing, etc. will add eight flower tiles of the Chinese symbol of "spring, summer, autumn, and winter; plums, orchids, chrysanthemums, and bamboos". In ancient times, mahjong was made of bone, bamboo or ivory, while modern mahjong is mostly made of acrylic or plastic.

The origin of mahjong:

The theory of mahjong tiles is the most mainstream theory of the origin of mahjong. Mahjong, also known as sparrow tiles, sparrow child tiles, originally from Taicang, Jiangsu Province, "food protection tiles". Relevant information records, in Taicang City, Jiangsu Province, there was a royal grain silo, year-round hoarding of rice for the "south grain to the north". Grain more natural bird disease frequently, every year due to the loss of a lot of food bird disease.

Management of the granary officials in order to reward the bird protection food, will be made of bamboo chips to record the number of birds, with which to issue honorariums, which is the Taicang "protection of food cards". This chip engraved with a variety of symbols and numbers, both ornamental, but also games, can also be used to cash prizes vouchers. This kind of food protection card, its play, symbols and terminology are all related to bird hunting.