Re: How Inaccurate is History of Ma Diao or Mahjong?

On May 18, 9:27 am, al <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 12, 8:13 am, al <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> On Mar 21, 8:50 pm, al <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 13, 12:29 pm, al <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> On Mar 12, 6:12 pm, al <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 17, 10:10 pm, al <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> NAQ (Never-asked-Question):
How Inaccurate is History of Ma Diao or Mahjong?

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As I read more and more, I find the MJ history less and less accurate.> > [..]

I am reading more and more and I am finding MJ history more and more
inaccurate.
[..]
(1) when there are many names for the same circular symbol, I see
inaccuracy.
(2) When what is supposed to be a copper coin with a square hole and I
have never seen a circle with a square hole in any MJ sets , I doubt
its accuracy.
(3) When so many writers repeat the phrase, "cash-suited" and there is
no cash, I am doubtful of the rest of the story.
(4) When mahjong money-suits x-refer to a game that was called by two
unofficial historians in two different meaning names, history may be
not so accurate.
(5) When Ma Diao is grouped with other games of the Ming or Late Ming
period, because no written words on it, no indication how long before
Ming it had exited. Same for mahjong; its existence in China could
have been long before the game was discovered by people from outside
China.
(6) when I see the disproportionate amounts assigned to the so-called
"money suits", I have my doubts about their accuracy.
(7) When a whole suit of cards (in written Chinese characters) have
been put aside from cash-suits and remain unexplained, mahjong history
is incomplete.

How does cash relate to compass directions and cyclical seasons? Why
do they belong to the game?

And if there are no reasonable answers to these questions, then
possibly the cash-hypothesis is a mistake.
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Cheers....al
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