胡适博士曾写过一篇杂文《麻将》,尖锐地揭示了国人沉溺于此的弊端。他写道:革命家说中国有三害,即鸦片、八股、小脚,但中国还有第四害,就是麻将;前三害巳被革了命,“麻将之害”却仍旧方兴未艾。胡适作了估算——中国每天大约一百万张麻将桌,以每桌八圈、每圈半小时计,共耗费400多万小时,相当16．7万天光阴。所以他痛切指 Dr. Hu Shi once wrote an essay called “Mahjong,” which reveals sharply the shortcomings of the Chinese people. He wrote: The revolutionaries said that China has three evils, namely, opium, eight shares, and small feet, but China still has the fourth evil, namely mahjong. The first three evils have been changed, and the “mahjong damage” is still in the ascendant. Hu Shi made an estimate - China has about one million mahjong tables each day, which takes eight laps per table and half an hour per circle, and has consumed more than 4 million hours, a time equivalent to 167,000 days. So he painfully pointed