As a follow-up to my previous post about Macau: https://steemit.com/photography/@osm0sis/m-a-c-a-u-through-my-lens
here are a few black and white photos I took depicting the lives and daily activities of the Macanese people:
Location: Macau
Location: Macau
Location: Macau
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Location: Macau
The word Mahjong means “clattering sparrows”, due to the noise of the tiles when mixing them which resemble the sound birds make.
I have heard that, according to yet another Chinese superstition (there are so many), winning the first game of Mahjong is bad luck... so much for Beginner's Luck!
Here are a few more interesting facts you may be interested in:
- Mahjong is a popular Chinese game that involves the use of tiles in a game of strategy, memory and skill.
- Generally a game of mahjong is played by four people over a series of rounds, although variants with two, three or even five players, are also played.
- A total of up to 144 tiles are typically used in a game of mahjong, featuring depictions of bamboo, circles and characters from numbers one to nine; as well as special symbols from seasons, winds, dragons and flowers.
- The general aim of the game is to score points primarily by ‘wooing’ or forming ‘mahjong’, which is done by achieving a specific set of combinations of tiles by picking them up, while others are discarded.
- Mahjong has previously had a gambling component that resulted in the Chinese government banning the game in China from 1949 to 1985, and the game was later reinstated without that element.
- The origins of mahjong are quite disputed and it is possible that the Chinese teacher Confucius designed the game around 500 BC; or the Chinese military invented it in the later 1800s; or it simply grew or was created out of other similar styled games.
Source: http://tenrandomfacts.com/mahjong/
Location: Macau
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Very happy to read a brief explanation of how Mahjong is played. It's very common to see people playing that game in movies from China in my experience. But it looked terribly confusing to the uninitiated like myself.
Glad you found interest in that. I played Mahjong a few times with both Chinese mainlanders and Hong Kongers a while back... it's a serious affair that game, not much laughing going on :)
So no one was laughing like in the movies?
Nope. But maybe I just got a group of grumpy grandpas that time.
Looks like pictures taken in another time. Marvelous as always.
Although being in China I haven't had the chance of playing a game of Mahjong yet. Gotta have to work on that!
Thanks for dropping by and sending over some positive vibes @rootingrobert. You absolutely MUST go learn to play mahjong with the old folks there. Its actually much harder than it looks! (mainly comparing it to the windows 98 version of the game)
Awesome set, would love to walk those streets with my camera.
Thanks for stopping by @bescouted. I'm sure you'd find tons of amazing photos to take
Judging from your post that might be very possible :)
Well at least you sourced the text and the Pictures are originals.
Maybe next time take a screenshot of text you want to cite?
Oooooooooh smart idea. Or I just don't add any extra info.... don't know if people are really interested
Don't worry about the Cheetah, it's obvious when it's misplaced. It's a good service that finds real plagiarism. Unfortunately no bot is perfect and it also gets triggered sometime on the innocent, but like I said it's pretty obvious when that happens so no one will judge your post poorly.
Yeah that's true.
Sometimes you think it's not worth quoting and citing additional information, if cheetah is just going to appear.
At least the photos and text you've added is yours - cheetah can go read the cited information :p
Thanks cryptastic. That's comforting.
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