If you are learning Chinese now, you may have heard  about some Chinese native ways of entertainment. A number of games and pastimes  are popular within Chinese culture. The most common game is Mah Jong. The same  pieces are used for other styled games such as Shanghai Solitaire. Others  include pai gow, pai gow poker and other bone domino games. weiqi and xiangqi  are also popular. Ethnic games like Chinese yo-yo are also part of the Chinese  entertainment.

Mahjong is a game  that originated in China, commonly played by four players. The four-player  table version is not the same as the single player tile matching game Mahjong  solitaire. Similar to the Western card game rummy, mahjong is a game of skill,  strategy and calculation and involves a certain degree of chance.

In the course of a Chinese  lesson, you can totally grasp the rules of Mahjong. The game is played with  a set of 136 tiles based on Chinese characters and symbols, although some  regional variations use a different number of tiles. First you need to learn Chinese characters on each  tile. In most variations, each player begins by receiving thirteen tiles. In  turn players draw and discard tiles until they complete a legal hand using the  fourteenth drawn tile to form four groups (melds) and a pair (head). There are  fairly standard rules about how a piece is drawn, stolen from another player  and thus melded, the use of simples (numbered tiles) and honors (winds and  dragons), the kinds of melds, and the order of dealing and play. However there  are many regional variations in the rules; in addition, the scoring system and  the minimum hand necessary to win varies significantly based on the local rules  being used.

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