Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in China".

Julian Bradfield <jcb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> >>and others added four more kinds "Teens, Deis, Yuns
> >>and Hwos" called Jongs ([jiang4] Generals). 
> >
> > I am trying to work out what these names mean. "Hwo" apparently is for
> > Mandarin he2/hu. But what can be "Teens, Deis, Yuns"??
> 
> Yes, it's very irritating that just for once he doesn't write the
> Chinese there. However, Teen and Dei are Heaven and Earth; one would
> expect Man and Woman, perhaps. He calls the four types of scoring
> counter Teen, Dei, Yun, Ngo, so that's consistent with Yun being Man.
> But Hwo?

'Hwo' may be, in Pinyin, 'Hé' meaning, as I said previously,
'Harmony'.

For the Culin references, see;

http://www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca//Archive/Culin/Dice1893/dominoes.html

and

http://www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca//Archive/Culin/Dice1893/formof.html

These four also appear as four 'Ruler's' in both the Glover and Himly
sets of circa 1875.

Regards
Michael Stanwick