Good And Bad Effects Of Mahjong?

Question

I need a lot of details, thanks, gladly appreciated.

Answer 1

Good and bad effect of majong are vary depent someone who play it, It can train your brain to think fast, but also it can be very addictives (gambling)

Mahjong (Traditional Chinese: 麻將; Simplified Chinese: 麻将; pinyin: Májiàng; Cantonese: Màhjeung; or Chinese: 麻雀; pinyin: Máquè; Cantonese: Màhjeuk; other common English spellings include mahjongg, majiang, and hyphenated forms such as mah-jong or mah-jongg) is a game for four players that originated in China.

It involves skill, strategy, and calculation, as well as luck. Depending on the variation which is played, luck can be anything from a minor to a dominant factor in success. In Asia, mahjong is as popular as gambling or computer games.

The object of the game is to build complete suits - or melds (usually of threes) - from either 13 or 16 tiles. The first person to achieve this goal wins the game. The winning tile completes the player's set of either 14 or 17 tiles.

Mahjong in China
One of the myths of the origin of Mahjong suggests that Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher, had developed the game in about 500 BC. This assertion is likely to be apocryphal. According to this myth, the appearance of the game in the various Chinese states coincided with Confucius' travels at the time he was teaching his new doctrines. The three dragon (Cardinal) tiles also agree with the three Cardinal virtues bequeathed by Confucius. Zhong ( , lit. middle) the Red, Fa ( , lit. prosperity) the Green, Bai ( , lit. white) the White represent Benevolence, Sincerity, and Filial piety respectively, again under this myth. In fact, the "middle" is likely a reference to 中国 (zhōngguó)—China's name in Chinese.

Also, this myth claims that Confucius was fond of birds, which would explain the name "Mahjong" (sparrow). However, there is no evidence of Mahjong's existence prior to the Taiping era in the 19th century which eliminates Confucius as a likely inventor.

Another theory implies the game was developed from existing Chinese card and domino games sometime around 1850. Many historians believe it was based on a Chinese card game called Mádiào (馬吊) (also known as Ma Tiae, lit. Hanging Horse; or Yèzí (葉子), lit. Leaf) in the early Ming dynasty. This game was played with 40 paper cards similar in appearance to the cards used in the game Ya Pei. These forty cards, numbered 1 to 9 in four different suits along with four extra flower cards, are quite alike to the numbering of Mahjong tiles today. There is still a healthy debate about who created the game. One theory is that Chinese army officers serving during the Taiping Rebellion created the game to pass the time. Another theory is that a noble living in the Shanghai area created the game between 1870 and 1875. Others believe that around 1850 in the city of Níngpō two brothers had created Mahjong from the earlier game of Mádiào.

This traditional Chinese game was banned in its homeland in 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded. The new Communist government forbade any gambling activities, which were regarded as symbols of capitalist corruption. After the Cultural Revolution, the game was revived, and once again Mahjong has become one of the favorite pastimes of the Chinese. In Hong Kong, Macao and elsewhere however, mahjong has always been popular, particularly amongst the Cantonese.

[edit] Mahjong in the western world

Mahjong Taikai, a Japanese Mahjong computer game on PSP, produced by Koei in 2005.
Students in the United States learning how to play MahjongBy 1895, Stewart Culin, an American anthropologist, wrote a paper in which Mahjong was mentioned. This is the first known written account of Mahjong in any language other than Chinese. By 1910, there were written accounts in many languages including French and Japanese. An important English book was Joseph Park Babcock's Rules of Mah-Jongg, which, simplified in 1920, was simply known as the "red book". Although this was the earliest version of Mahjong that had been introduced to America, many of Babcock's simplifications were abandoned when the 1920s fad died out.

The game was a sensation in America when it was imported from China in the 1920s, as the same Mahjong game took on a number of trademarked names, such as Pung Chow or the Game of Thousand Intelligences. Part of Mahjong nights in America was to decorate rooms in Chinese style and dress like Chinese. Several hit songs were also recorded during the mahjong fad, most notably "Since Ma is Playing Mah Jong" by Eddie Cantor.

American mahjong, which was mainly played by women during the time, grew from this craze. By the 1930s, many revisions of the rules developed that were substantially different from Babcock's classical version (including some that were considered fundamentals in other variants, such as the notion of a standard hand). Standardization came with the formation of the National Mah Jongg League in 1937, along with the first American mahjong rulebook, Maajh: The American Version of the Ancient Chinese Game.

While mahjong was accepted by U.S. players of all racial backgrounds during the Babcock era, many consider the modern American version a Jewish game, as many American mahjong players are of Jewish descent. (Also, the NMJL was founded by Jewish players and considered a Jewish organization.) In addition, players usually use the American game as a family-friendly social activity, not as gambling.

British author Alan D. Millington revived the Chinese Classical game of the 1920s with his book, The Complete Book of Mah-jongg (1977). This handbook includes a formal rules set for the game. Many players in Western countries consider Millington's work authoritative.

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Answer 2

Mahjong Memory Improvement

Answer 3

Mahjong is said to prevent Alzheimer's disease, where it is a kind of exercise for the brain. Keep the brain active and sharp. Apart from luck, it requires expertise.

On the other side, it is a game of chance as well, which means playing mahjong is considered gambling, it's addictive and, well, gambling we all know is bad for the society, bad for a family, basically, bad.

Answer 4

the bad effects of mahjong ae that you may get addicted to it and of course the gambling with money involved. the good effects are that playing mahjong allows you to think and strategize.

Answer 5

Pch Mahjongg

Answer 6

Good = it helps us to be brain active. It also helps in memory improvement and enhancement. Good especially for the elderly who have nothing much to do.

Bad = it is highly addictive. It can break family relationships. It is time consuming and family negligence sadly occurs. Financial problems creep in too because it is addicted gambling.

Hope that helps :)

Answer 7

the name is ma huang what you have is the chinese game .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjong however I believe you meant ma huang which has ephedra in it .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephedra
hope this link helps it has been banned because of related deaths . A friend of mine used it in pill formed took too many and died of cerebral hemorrhage .

Answer 8

I think it depends