Heritage Mah Jongg Premium Crewneck Sweatshirt - The Sparrow Tile
Heritage Mah Jongg Premium Crewneck Sweatshirt - The Sparrow Tile
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Who invented mahjong? Nobody can prove it. Ningbo has the strongest evidence as a place, while its famous inventor remains a good story.
A crewneck for the person who prefers the footnote to the legend. The carved bird sits on a warm, comfortable sweatshirt, a good choice for the history reader in your game or anyone who has heard the Confucius story once too often.
A 1902 text says the game began in Ningbo about twenty years earlier, and a 1914 guide also names the city. A set collected around the 1870s was labeled Bamboo Cards of Ningbo. The clan hall of Chen Yumen is now a mahjong exhibition hall there, inside the Tianyi Ge complex.
Chen lived from about 1817 to 1878, but the only early credit to him is a 1925 article, some fifty years after his death. Papers tying the game to him are probably forged. Confucius, of course, had nothing to do with it. The takeaway: Ningbo's case is better than Chen's. A place can outlast a legend.
A premium sweatshirt of 80 percent ring-spun cotton and 20 percent polyester, shifting a little on some colors, with ribbing at neck, wrists and hem. The label tears out. Turn inside out, wash in cold water, and tumble dry low. No bleach, no softener, and no dry cleaning. Like everything in our shop, this one means profits support hunger relief.
| S | M | L | XL | 2XL | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Width, in | 20.47 | 22.05 | 23.62 | 25.20 | 26.77 |
| Length, in | 26.77 | 27.95 | 29.13 | 30.31 | 31.50 |
| Sleeve length, in | 25.59 | 26.18 | 26.77 | 27.36 | 27.95 |
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