Mahjong originated in China and has become popular all over the world in recent years.
If you want to say that football can't be excused by foreigners? But if mahjong can't play foreigners, I'll strangle.
However, just after the fifth European mahjong championship, the Chinese team was squashed and failed. Only 30 individuals, 37 members of the group.
In 9 countries with 10 or more participants, the average Chinese contestant ranks second to the bottom.
China has 10 contestants, belonging to three teams: Chang'An Changan team / GuoHua China team / Chinada Central Canadian United team.
Their rankings are as follows:
The fifth European mahjong tournament was hosted by the EMA, European mahjong association.
Committed to promoting the mahjong movement in Europe, it is a member of the world mahjong organization (WMO).
Mahjong also has a world organization ~
That sounds as good as the World Trade Organization.
The world mahjong organization currently has 19 member states in Europe, with almost all countries playing football well.
Foreigners are especially serious, each national organization has its own official website, and well-designed logo.
With so many member states, of course, friendly exchanges, the mahjong European tournament appeared.
Although its name is the European Championships, it has also been widely invited to participate in other countries, especially China, after all, the origin of the mahjong country-the Suzerain State.
However, the Chinese team members have been badly defeated, the group rankings are not in the top 30.
Netizens filled with indignation, scuffed their hands and wanted to serve themselves:
Some people question whether the Chinese players sent this time are not very good at their own level.
Above, the highest ranking Mr. Yan Wenying, Baidu knows that he won a domestic mahjong competition champion, obviously not unknown.
Therefore, the other players should not be casually drawn by the mediocrity of the generation.
A total of 204 contestants participated in the competition, the champion is Japan, the second runner-up is Germany.
The top 20 are all Europeans. Foreign mahjong play better than the Chinese?!
Mahjong originated in China and is known as the quintessence of the country.
So far has a history of hundreds of years, the mass base is very broad.
However, since mahjong became popular in the international community, foreigners have become more and more skilled.
In recent years, the Chinese mahjong Open Organizing Committee has vigorously promoted the national standard in Europe, the European level has been improved quickly.
Various articles about teaching foreigners to play mahjong on the Internet
Youtube has a lot of mahjong tutorials in any search, and there are hundreds of thousands of people watching them.
There are also a variety of mahjong training courses, they are mahjong as a course to learn ~
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When the tutoring class is over, it will be a real battle. There is no need to take a short copy, it's okay to take a look ~
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Foreign friends are full of enthusiasm
Otto Maxwell Leviko, an American at the world mahjong championships, said he could play mahjong at a very young age.
"when I was very young, my grandmother taught me to play mahjong, probably in 1987."
Bad Chinese did not prevent him from learning mahjong enthusiasm, soon learned to say "touch, eat, bar, Hu" in Chinese.
American mahjong
But so far he can hardly speak any other Chinese except these four words.
"I only know what graphics look like, and we have a general explanation in English, so I don't know what they mean, but they are really beautiful."
Americans love playing mahjong. American entertainment makes them play mahjong.
Playing mahjong in the pool and playing on the yacht
The American mahjong association was founded in 1999 and held competitive mahjong competitions throughout the United states.
Mizel, a mahjong enthusiast from the Netherlands, has set up a local club called eight.
He said: "eight is my lucky number, in China is also the number of good luck, so I like the name."
As early as 2004, there were dozens of mahjong clubs in the Netherlands. Today, mahjong clubs are also growing rapidly under the unified auspices of the Dutch mahjong association.
"there are 500 players registered to participate in domestic competitions at a time, and others who play mahjong at home and those who are not registered are even less able to count."
Mitzel's club, which has been open for seven years, comes with mahjong teaching and the popularity of international competitive rules, in addition to providing venues for enthusiasts.
"mahjong is really popular in the Netherlands. Our former prime minister also participated in the first European mahjong championship. "
The Jewish wives of virtuous and Shude were also fascinated by the study of the mysterious symbols of the ancient Orient, and were criticized by the men.
Mahjong play well, in order to get mixed in the upper society!
In addition to Europe and the United States, Japan's mahjong experts are also a lot of cattle hair.
A mahjong insider on a well-known question-and-answer platform said: "Japanese research on mahjong is several streets ahead of China, so the overall average Japanese mahjong level, mahjong understanding must be better than China."
At the beginning of the last century, a Japanese go player (four paragraphs) called Takamoto Daoping came to China to play, and by the way the experts of "go Power" came to play, and the result was unexpected.
In Japan, the general level of high-level students will be very high-looking Chinese masters all battered into cinders, the news spread, the whole country is surprised.
For foreigners, mahjong is not gambling, but an interesting educational activity.
"I like playing mahjong because it's challenging," said Jan Haffner, a retired Florida banker.
"mahjong keeps you focused. It's all about getting the color right."
The spirit of studying mahjong by foreigners is in sharp contrast to the entertainment of our people. Maybe that's why the Chinese can't beat foreigners?