Re: Mahjong Cash : Real or Mistaken Translation?

On Oct 18, 10:50 am, pa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On Oct 18, 12:59 am, al <a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Never Asked Questions (NAQ)  #3          10/14/2007
> >  [snip]
> > Final question (5) is this. With the description for one-cash on page
> > 89 of The-Playing-Card, Volume 31 Number 2, reads as follows, "one-
> > Cash. Like the diagram of the taiji (grand ultimate)", then "one-cash"
> > is the yin-yang symbol or taiji diagram and is NOT cash. If so, matiao
> > is in fact related to mahjong because matiao like mahjong utilized
> > symbols (circles and lines) of taiji and I-Ching. (Cash and Strings of
> > Cash were mistaken terms.)
>
> Allan,
>
> I think that a circular object (possibly representing heaven and yang)
> with a square hole (possibly representing earth and yin) could
> represent both a coin and 'Heaven & Earth' (and taiji).
>
Dan, are you saying that the symbol could represent both due to the
circular cir***ference and the square center?

The "one-cash" specifically was described as a taiji diagram
(definitely yin and yang symbol and not a coin.
The translation reads as follows:
2 Cash. Like a Waist drum.
3 Cash. Like the shape of the qian trigram.
4 Cash. Like interlocking rings.
The description of 1-Cash to 9-Cash is referenced to the taiji diagram
in 1-Cash, by my reading. The taiji diagram is that black-and-white
circle, with two dots like eyes, that symbolizes the interplay of yin
and yang (female and male). These taiji diagrams by implication, were
on the matiao cards of 1-Cash to 9-Cash. Is that how you would
interpret page 89 of The-Playing-Card, Vol. 31 No.2?

> [..]
>
> Dan

Give some thought to the idea of Zero Cash and the description of
Broken Cash. Can you make sense out of them?

Cheers...