Northern mahjong *** count 136 cards, 36 strips, 36 tubes, 36 ten thousand, respectively, 1-9 four each, counting 108 cards, and another southeast, northwest, central hair white four each, *** 28 cards. The standard mahjong is 144 sheets, ten thousand tubes and bars three doors, each door four 1~9, word tiles (southeast, west, north, south, west, central hair white) each four, flower tiles (spring, summer, autumn, winter, plum, orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemums) each one, i.e., 36 + 36 + 36 + 28 + 28 + 8 = 144 sheets; Szechuan mahjong has no word tiles and flower tiles, *** 108 sheets; Guangdong mahjong does not have flower tiles, *** 136 sheets; a very small number of places have only tubes and bars two door tiles, 72 sheets.

Expanded Information:

Mahjong (Má jiàng, Eng: Mahjong, Mah-jong or Mah-jongg), a puzzle game invented by the Han Chinese, a mahjong-type recreational device, small rectangular cubes made of bamboo, bone or plastic with patterns or characters carved on them, 136 per pair.

The four-player domino blog game, popular in the Chinese cultural circle. The rules of the game vary slightly from region to region. The main types of mahjong tiles are "Cake (Wen Qian)", "Strip (Suo Zi)", "Wan (Wan Guan)" and so on. In ancient times, mahjong was mostly made of bone-faced bamboo backs, and it can be said that mahjong tiles are actually a combination of paper tiles and bone tiles.

Compared with other forms of dominoes, mahjong is the most complex and interesting to play, its basic playing method is simple and easy to learn, but there are many variations in it, and the matching combinations vary from person to person, so it has become one of the most fascinating forms of bojutsu in Chinese history.