This flower tile, like mahjong, is a product of traditional Chinese culture and has a long history.
The flower cards are in the shape of long strips, about a stick long and half an inch wide, and are made of hard paper brushed with varnish.
Each deck has 110 cards. In the 1980s, playing flower cards was jokingly called "learning 110 rules." It is composed of Shang, Da, Ren, Ke, Zhi, Li, Kong, Yi, Ji, Hua, San, Qian, Seven, Ten, Tu, Eight, Nine, Zi, Two, Four, Five, Six and so on. There are five cards in each of these 22 characters. Among them, five characters such as B, three, five, seven and nine are "jing", and each has two flower characters and three plain characters. There is a big difference between Hua Jing and Su Jing. Nine characters such as Shang, Da, Ren, Ke, Zhi, Li, three, five, and seven are in red characters, and the remaining thirteen characters are in black characters.
The main meaning of the Chinese character in the flower card is "The ancient master, Confucius, was just one person; he had three thousand disciples, among whom were seventy-two sages; eight or nine of his favorite disciples, we can see the courtesy of Duke Zhou." Among them, "Yi" refers to "一" and "Ji" refers to "Ji".
When playing cards, four people sit around, and either side shuffles the cards and divides them into five stacks, one for each side and one for the center of the table. The shuffler randomly turns over the cards at the center of the table. If there are cards with the red letter Shang, Da, Ren, Ke, Zhi, Li or Hua, Qian, Kong, Ji, Tu, etc., then the banker will be determined in the order of "Shang Kong Hua Qi" ; If it is a digital card, the banker will be determined with "more ideas". After the dealer is determined, the dealer shuffles the cards and uses the opponent's "waist card" [which means to cut off the middle]. The "waist card" is called "Xingjia", which means to take a break and wake up after playing until you are dizzy.
The three players take the cards in order. After taking the 25th card, the dealer takes another one, which is called "filling the head", which means capping the bar. At the same time, it is announced that "please unify", that is, the players are invited to take the bottom card of the center card of the table and return it to themselves if they have drawn four cards of the same name and plan to use them as a round of cards. There is a sequence of "unification". The Ba family is "unified" first, the second family is "unified" second, and the banker is "unified" last.
Then, the dealer plays the cards. If the players need to absorb the cards played by others, if there are two of the same cards, they are "pairs", and they can "pair"; if there are three cards, they are "kaner". "If you have four, you can start recruiting; if you have four, you can start selling." If no one wants the card played, the player returns to the next player to get the card, then plays another card, and the cycle repeats.
The standards for "Hu brand" are stricter. The 25 cards in the hand, plus the last card drawn, or a card played by another player, should form eight and a half rounds of cards, corresponding to the three-character combinations of "Zhao", "Kan", "Unification" and "Zhao" on the table. , each counts as one round. The half-round one is "mouth", which has only two characters, and one character is missing to make it round, so it is not sealed, so it is called. It's not enough just for the cards to be round, you also need to have at least seventeen tricks. When the cards are round and there are seventeen more tricks, it is called "the trick". The cards are spread out one by one. After everyone has reviewed them, the next card can be played. If there are flaws in the examination, such as insufficient Hu, such as the sentence is not round, it is "explosion of Hu", and the "Hu card" will be punished.
The strategy of "Hu" is: one Hu in a red sentence, one Hu in a pair, two Hu in a pair, recruit four Hus, unify four Hus, and sell eight Hus; black characters, each will be reduced by half. . It can be seen that in our country’s traditional concept, red is better than black. If it's "Jing", it's different. If it is determined in advance as "three classics", then the three, five, and seven sutras will have one Hu each in plain characters and two Hu in fancy characters. This is the algorithm used when writing the "Common Sutra". If it is designated as the "main sutra", it will be doubled. "Miao Jing", "Ban Jing", and "Meng Jing" each have their own differences in Hu's algorithm. When called Jing or Ban Jing, only a certain Jing character is the main Jing, and the rest are minor Jing. The plain characters of the main sutra are counted as two Hus, and the flower characters are counted as four Hus; the Kans that form a round are counted as Ten Hus, the single flower Kans are counted as the Twelve Hus, the double flower Kans are counted as the Fourteen Hus, and the single Hua Tong or Kai Zhao count. Twenty-four Hus, double flowers are counted as twenty-eight Hus if they are combined or opened, and fifty-six Hus are counted as if they are combined on the top or opened. The algorithm of the Auxiliary Classic is to cut each person in half. During the Menstruation, the calculation of the main sutra is the same as above, but you can decide the sutra according to the cards in your hand, that is, whichever sutra is more numerous, you can decide which one.
If it is determined as the "Five Classics" in advance, then B, 3, 5, 7, and 9 will all be regarded as Hu.
After touching the heart cards on the table, if there is still no one who has lost the card, it is "yellow" and can be re-opened. However, when re-opening on the same bank, the maximum limit is three games, "Three yellow games, go to the bank obediently." Moreover, the banker should also give "wake money" to Xingjia to compensate for Xingjia's ineffective work.
You can play flower cards either plainly or for gambling.
Those who play plainly will remember the number of Hu, and the one with more Hu will be the best; you can also play "Qia Hu", that is, the first one to reach 100 or 200 Hu will win.
There are many ways to use it for gambling. However, the most common style of play in Xuanzhou is "climbing every five steps". Seventeen Hus are the basis, and each additional five Hus is a level. In Yangzhou Village, the most popular way of playing is "one dollar climbing". Of course, this was not possible before. At that time, even if smoking was allowed, it could only be a "roller" [a cigarette, a cigarette climbing], or a "dime climbing". Today's "one dollar climb" is divided into "full gun" and "half gun". If the gun is fired, then the Hu family will be given two dollars, which is equal to the amount paid by the other dozen families; if the gun is half fired, the Hu family will be given only one dollar. For those who have "climbed up the slope", one or two yuan will be added for each grade.
Generally, flower cards are popular in Jingzhou, Gongan, Shashi, Jiangling, Songzi, Yichang, Yidu and other places in Hubei.
Flower cards, also known as Liu's flower cards, originated from Huanghuangkou of Gongan during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty and were original creations of the Liu family. Liu's Flower Cards integrates enlightenment and entertainment, integrating calligraphy, painting, and literacy. Although the one hundred and ten playing cards are small, they contain mysteries: the simple and vigorous calligraphy is pleasing to the eye, and the exquisite paintings make It is breathtaking, and each stroke reflects the breadth and depth of Chinese traditional culture. In the concise words of the flower card, the artist Liu Huajian conveyed the essence of the connotation of "Kong Yiji, Hua Sanqian" to people, and then dissolved the ancient educational concepts into the flower card to entertain and teach. Clumsy and weird fonts are another characteristic of flower cards. This kind of writing, which looks like official script but not official script, and looks like seal script but not seal script, is somewhere between running script and cursive script. The brush writing has a rigorous structure, priorities and degrees. This special character cannot be found in ancient and modern calligraphy dictionaries, and later generations called it "Liu style". It has strong local characteristics. No matter where you go to the end of the world, as long as you see it, you will know where it came from and who the author was, thus becoming the image symbol of Huangjinkou. Coincidentally, this seemingly difficult-to-understand character is easy to popularize. Even ordinary workers who are illiterate can quickly master the application in a short period of time. The strange thing is that in a pile of cards, as long as the prefix appears, you can accurately identify what card it is. Number: 0 Hu
With a sentence in black, calculate the number of Hu: 1 Hu
With a sentence in black, calculate the number of Hu: 2 Hu (when it is a scripture) 1 Hu (when it is not a scripture)
Black with a sentence from the Flower Sutra, calculate the number of Hu: 4 Hu (Dang Sutra) 2 Hu (not a Sutra)
Red sentence, calculate the number of Hu: 1 Hu
Red one hurdle, calculate the Hu number: 2 Hu
Red four-card system, calculate the Hu number: 4 Hu
Red five-card system, calculate the Hu number: 8 Hu
p>Black without flower ridge, calculate Hu number: 1 Hu
Black with one flower ridge, calculate Hu number: 2 Hu
Black with double flower ridge, calculate Hu number: 3 Hu
Black with one flower, calculate the Hu number: 3 Hu
Black with double flowers, calculate the Hu number: 4 Hu
The black belt has a double-flowered five-card system. Calculate the number of Hu: 6 Hu
The number of Hu is one hurdle, the number of Hu is: 10 (when it is a sutra) 5 Hu (when it is not a sutra)
The Sutra has one flower. Hom, calculate the number of Hu: 12 (when the classic) 6 Hu (not the classic)
The warp belt has double flowers and one hurdle, calculate the number of Hu: 14 (when the classic) 7 Hu (not the classic)
The classics with one flower line, calculate the number of Hu: 24 (Dang Jing) 12 Hu (not suitable for the classic)
The classic with two Huatong, calculate the number of Hu: 28 (Dang Jing) 14 Hu (inappropriate) Sutra)
The sutra belt has double flowers and five cards, and the number of Hu is calculated: 56 (when it is a sutra) 28 (when it is not a sutra)