the first day of the game, Wang Guiying (right) was preparing for the game half an hour earlier. On the 8 day of
3, Liu Xingwang and 27 Xi'an friends set foot on the south bound train. The team, with an average age of seventy, will take a 16 hour train to Nanchang to participate in the largest competitive mahjong competition in China.
their sleeping cars are filled with food, pancakes, roast chicken, quail eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers, apples, and so on. The mothers chewed the cake and discussed who had the best meal.
Liu Xingwang pulled a can of beer over his head and shouted in a loud voice, "wish us good results in the competition!" All the people put out their arms and hit a cup.
the steward passed by and asked everyone what was so happy. The leader Wang Guiying said, "we are going to play mahjong." She pointed to the players and said, "this is the champion of the Austria competition. This is the runner up of the world championships. This is the runner up of the whole nation..." All of the top runners were white with white hair.
Wang Guiying, 67, is the Secretary General of Shaanxi athletic mahjong Fraternity Association. Over the past decade, she has led these friends, known as "folk sparrow", to fight north and south.
her husband Zhao Baoguo was the first to promote mahjong in Xi'an. In 1990, Zhao Baoguo did not retire from the old Xi'an defense system, and organized the elderly to play the ball and chess games all over the country, and came into contact with the athletic mahjong.
"one billion people nine hundred million Ma, and one hundred million are housekeeping". Mahjong has a strong mass foundation in China. Mahjong in different places has different ways of playing. It is basically based on the "four groups and one pair", commonly known as "pushing and falling".
Sports mahjong based on this detailed rules, including the "Thirteen single" "seven small pairs" and "edge" and other 81 species, different types corresponding to the corresponding value. For example, "Bian Zhang" is 1 points, and "Thirteen three" is 88 points. A card is at least 8 points and cards. In addition, it is stipulated that the time for thinking from playing cards to playing cards can not be more than 10 seconds. More importantly, competitive mahjong does not wear colored heads. Practice and competition are marked by chips or playing cards.
Zhao Baoguo liked the athletics mahjong, "in this process, to do the best way to organize big cards, can prevent senile dementia, but also can temper character." He organized a number of training courses for athletic mahjong in Xi'an Association for the elderly. In 2003, he established the pure folk organization "Shaanxi athletic mahjong friends association", and he was elected president. Up to now, there are nearly two hundred famous friends in the fellowship. In the age of
1990, Wang Guiying studied the rules of mahjong with her husband, and acted as referee in some minor competitions. It was not until 2000 that the first Chinese Mahjong brand Wang Sai and masters began to compete as athletes.
"the mood is very different." Wang Guiying said, "when the referee is in accordance with the rules, it is not easy to really fight. It is especially difficult to give cards every time." This veteran cadre worker has been in a hurry for seventy days. He still speaks fast and fast when he speaks.
"I was a gunner in that game." Wang Guiying was not convinced. "I went home and started practicing. I still can't believe that a mahjong can't fight." During the day, she keeps a table mahjong on her own every night, with one hand holding reference books, and the other hand pulling and pulling out different varieties. "The original notes are all on paper, and only by playing cards in person can you deepen your impression."
more actual combat, Wang Guiying felt the charm of competitive mahjong. "Playing cards is like a row of soldiers. It is an art to dispose of cards from disorder. And you never know what the next card is, so you will never get tired of it.