WSJ：隐藏在中国香港的手工麻将工匠们 | 2026.6.2
字幕摘录
| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:04 | I just was instantly captured by the sensory aspects of the game, the way the tiles look, | 我只是被游戏的感官方面, 瓷砖的外观, |
| 0:10 | the way they feel, you know, they're cool and smooth and heavy. | 他们的感受,你知道, 他们很酷,光滑和沉重。 |
| 0:14 | There's nothing like the sound of mahjong tiles as you mix or wash them. | 搅拌或洗涤时麻将瓦片的声音,没有什么比得上. |
| 0:20 | American mahjong comes in many different sizes, tons of colors and designs. | 美国的麻将以许多不同大小,吨数的颜色和设计出现. |
| 0:37 | I do have a special set that is a Wizard of Oz theme. | 我有一个特别的集 是奥兹的巫师主题。 |
| 0:41 | The Glitterville set has cakes, cookies, and donuts for flowers. | 格利特维尔套装有蛋糕,饼干,还有花圈的甜甜圈. |
| 0:46 | When I come up with the design, I try to brand the contemporary illustration | 当我想出这个设计时, 我试图标出当代的插图 |
| 0:50 | with the delegates of the Heritage Craftsmanship. | 与传统工艺的代表。 |
| 0:59 | It's a dying art and I wanted something special to be in my collection | 这是一门垂死的艺术 我希望在我的收藏中有特别的东西 |
| 1:04 | that we would have forever once the carvers are no longer around. | 一旦木匠们不在我们身边 我们就会永远存在 |
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| 1 | I just was instantly captured by the sensory aspects of the game, the way the tiles look, | 我只是被游戏的感官方面, 瓷砖的外观, |
| 2 | the way they feel, you know, they're cool and smooth and heavy. | 他们的感受,你知道, 他们很酷,光滑和沉重。 |
| 3 | There's nothing like the sound of mahjong tiles as you mix or wash them. | 搅拌或洗涤时麻将瓦片的声音,没有什么比得上. |
| 4 | American mahjong comes in many different sizes, tons of colors and designs. | 美国的麻将以许多不同大小,吨数的颜色和设计出现. |
| 5 | I do have a special set that is a Wizard of Oz theme. | 我有一个特别的集 是奥兹的巫师主题。 |
| 6 | The Glitterville set has cakes, cookies, and donuts for flowers. | 格利特维尔套装有蛋糕,饼干,还有花圈的甜甜圈. |
| 7 | When I come up with the design, I try to brand the contemporary illustration | 当我想出这个设计时, 我试图标出当代的插图 |
| 8 | with the delegates of the Heritage Craftsmanship. | 与传统工艺的代表。 |
| 9 | It's a dying art and I wanted something special to be in my collection | 这是一门垂死的艺术 我希望在我的收藏中有特别的东西 |
| 10 | that we would have forever once the carvers are no longer around. | 一旦木匠们不在我们身边 我们就会永远存在 |
| 11 | Mahjong is a game that is played with tiles that is similar to the game of Rummy, | 麻将是一种用瓷砖玩的游戏,类似于鲁米游戏, |
| 12 | where you choose random tiles and try to complete a winning hand. | 并尝试完成一个胜利的手。 |
| 13 | There are three suits that you play with. | 有三套你玩的西装。 |
| 14 | The dots that are typically round and look like a dot. | 典型的圆点,外观像圆点. |
| 15 | The cracks, which stands for Chinese characters, | 代表中国人物的裂缝 |
| 16 | and the bams, which are usually green and stands for bamboo. | 和 ba,通常为绿色,代表竹子. |
| 17 | There are also some other tiles that help you build your hand. | 还有一些其他的瓷砖可以帮助你建立你的手. |
| 18 | They would be the winds, the flowers, and the dragons. | 他们会是风、花和龙 |
| 19 | In American mahjong, we also use jokers, | 在美国麻将,我们也用笑话 |
| 20 | so I asked them specifically to make jokers for my Hong Kong set. | 所以我特意请他们为我的香港片场做笑话 |
| 21 | I really love the one dot or one circle because there is so much variation | 我真的喜欢一个圆点或一个圆圈 因为有很多变化 |
| 22 | that's possible within this sphere of design. | 在这个设计范围内是可能的 |
| 23 | The one bam, also known as the bird bam. | 一种 ba,又称鸟 ba. |
| 24 | Character from Wan Wang, | 万旺的人物, |
| 25 | because you can really find the calligraphy inside, the depth of the stroke. | 因为里面真的能找到书法,中风的深度. |
| 26 | Mahjong was first created in the area around Shanghai in the Yangtze River Delta | 马j最早创建于长江三角洲上海一带 |
| 27 | in the mid to late 1800s. | 在1800年代中后期。 |
| 28 | Really from the get-go, the game was marketed to an American public | 游戏真的被推销给美国公众 |
| 29 | as an ancient royal game of the Chinese court. | 作为中国宫廷古老的皇家游戏. |
| 30 | In the 1920s, boom, thousands and thousands of sets were made by hand. | 20世纪20年代,繁荣,上千套由手制成. |
| 31 | In that process, they also increasingly standardized the designs. | 在这一过程中,它们也越来越多地将设计标准化。 |
| 32 | But higher-end sets, which were made by very, very skilled craftsmen, | 但高端的套装, 由非常,非常熟练的工匠制作, |
| 33 | were carved with often just like a hair's breadth, really delicate scenes. | 雕刻的往往就像头发的宽度, 非常微妙的场景。 |
| 34 | But once they really start being made exclusively by machine and no longer by hand, | 但一旦它们真正开始 完全由机器制造 不再由手工制造 |
| 35 | that standardization process really takes off. | 标准化过程真的开始了 |
| 36 | I'm 73 years old now. | 我73岁了 |
| 37 | I've been doing this for a long time. | 久服此药. |
| 38 | My father is also a mahjong player. | 父亲也是麻将球员. |
| 39 | I see him a lot, so I give him a knife and he plays with it. | 我经常见到他,所以我给他一把刀 他玩它。 |
| 40 | He plays with it, and then he does it. | 他玩它,然后他这样做。 |
| 41 | When we were students, we all had boards. | 当我们还是学生的时候,我们都有董事会。 |
| 42 | We followed the boards. | 我们跟着板子 |
| 43 | After you finish learning, you have to empty them. | 完成学习后,必须清空. |
| 44 | You have to make your own drafts. | 你必须自己起草 |
| 45 | This is the result in your three years. | 这是你三年来的结果 |
| 46 | So there aren't too many mahjong tools. | 所以没有太多的麻将工具。 |
| 47 | 一刀一 chi. | |
| 48 | We call it a chisel. | 我们称之为凿子。 |
| 49 | It子. | |
| 50 | 木 chi子. | |
| 51 | After chiseling, the goods are made and the products are finished. | chi子后,制货,产品成品. |
| 52 | Then we color them. | 然后我们给他们颜色。 |
| 53 | After coloring, | 彩色过后, |
| 54 | when the paint is dry, | 当油漆干涸的时候, |
| 55 | we use a 7mm chisel | 我们用7毫米的凿子 |
| 56 | to chisel the surface. | 来抚摸表面。 |
| 57 | My chisel is 8 inches long, | 我的凿子长8英寸 |
| 58 | and I've been using it for 2 inches, 3 inches. | 我已经用了2英寸,3英寸。 |
| 59 | It's almost gone. | 几乎没了 |
| 60 | I think it's time for me to retire. | 我想我该退休了 |
| 61 | Young people can use one chisel a day. | 年轻人一天可以用一只凿子. |
| 62 | 20 or 30 years old, it's still possible. | 年二三十岁,仍可. |
| 63 | 40 or 50 years old, it can be used again. | 年四五十,可复用之. |
| 64 | Now, | 现在, |
| 65 | I've been chiseling for 8 days. | 我闻了八天 |
| 66 | One chisel. | 一只凿子。 |
| 67 | What I'm chiseling now | 我现在在吹牛 |
| 68 | is 8,000 dollars. | 八千块 |
| 69 | Now, | 现在, |
| 70 | there are more foreign customers | 还有更多的外国客户 |
| 71 | who come to buy chisels. | 谁来买凿子。 |
| 72 | There are a lot of American customers | 有很多美国顾客 |
| 73 | who come to buy chisels. | 谁来买凿子。 |
| 74 | Newly produced hand-carved tiles | 新生产的手工雕刻瓦片 |
| 75 | are really rare | 真难得 |
| 76 | and precious these days. | 和珍贵的这些日子。 |
| 77 | Machine-made tiles | 机器制造的瓷砖 |
| 78 | often do a great job | 经常做一个伟大的工作 |
| 79 | of mimicking some of the designs. | 模仿一些设计。 |
| 80 | But having | 不过,有 |
| 81 | that kind of signature detail | 那种签名细节 |
| 82 | or style that's really communicated | 或者真正沟通的风格 |
| 83 | only by hand | 只有手亲手 |
| 84 | is just inimitable. | 简直是不可比拟 |
| 85 | The Hong Kong tiles, | 香港的瓷砖 |
| 86 | you can tell by touching and feeling | 你可以通过触摸和感觉分辨 |
| 87 | that they are an individual work of art. | 他们是个人的艺术作品。 |
| 88 | And the tiles that are | 和瓷砖是 |
| 89 | produced by the American companies | 美国公司生产的 |
| 90 | are mass-made | 是量产的 |
| 91 | and they look like they came out of a machine. | 他们看起来像是从机器里出来的 |
| 92 | They're very different from American mahjong. | 他们与美国麻将非常不同. |
| 93 | They're chunky and big. | 它们又胖又大 |
| 94 | And they're not elaborately | 他们不是精心策划的 |
| 95 | decorated. | 装饰. |
| 96 | You don't use the racks that we use | 别用我们用的架子 |
| 97 | in American mahjong. | 在美国麻将 |
| 98 | And you just set them on the table. | 你只是把它们放在桌上。 |
| 99 | But I like that they're different and unique | 但我喜欢它们不同 独一无二 |
| 100 | and most people don't have them. | 大多数人都没有 |
| 101 | I took my first lesson | 我上过第一课 |
| 102 | in August or September of 2025. | (原始内容存档于2025年8月或9月). |
| 103 | I kept | 我留下来 |
| 104 | seeing things online about this game | 在网络上看到关于此游戏的东西 |
| 105 | but I knew nothing about it. | 但我对此一无所知 |
| 106 | So I began | 所以我开始 |
| 107 | researching mahjong | 研究麻将 |
| 108 | and I discovered that | 我发现 |
| 109 | many tiles were originally made | 许多瓷砖是最初制作的 |
| 110 | in Hong Kong. | 在香港,我们去香港 |
| 111 | And so I decided to go on this | 所以我决定继续 |
| 112 | goose chase of getting myself | 追逐着自己 |
| 113 | a set from Hong Kong | 来自香港的一套 |
| 114 | hand-carved. | 手执雕刻. |
| 115 | Somehow after all my digging | 不知怎的,经过我的挖掘 |
| 116 | 我在Instagram上找到一个女士 | |
| 117 | and she visited | 她拜访了 |
| 118 | this particular artist, | 这个艺术家, |
| 119 | the last female artisan | 最后一位女性手工业者 |
| 120 | in Hong Kong. | 在香港,我们去香港 |
| 121 | After many messages, emails, back and forth | 经过许多消息,电子邮件,前后 |
| 122 | I was sending money to Hong Kong | 我寄钱去香港 |
| 123 | to buy these tiles. | 买这些瓷砖。 |
| 124 | I really hope | 我真的希望这样 |
| 125 | that hand-carving tiles continues | 手工雕刻的瓷砖继续 |
| 126 | to exist in an art form. | 以艺术形式存在 |
| 127 | I do think | 我觉得 |
| 128 | that particularly thanks | 特别谢谢 |
| 129 | to a resurgence | 重新出现 |
| 130 | of interest in mahjong that's happening | 对正在发生的麻将的兴趣 |
| 131 | globally right now, there | 全世界,现在,那里 |
| 132 | is enough of | 足够了 |
| 133 | a market that will continue | 市场将继续存在 |
| 134 | to support artisans | 支助工匠 |
| 135 | who want to continue this craft. | 他们想继续这个工艺。 |
| 136 | My favorite parts about playing are the really | 我最喜欢的玩的部分是真正的 |
| 137 | cute tiles, the setup of the game. | 可爱的瓷砖,游戏的设定. |
| 138 | American mahjong is not just about | 美国的麻将不止是 |
| 139 | playing the game, it's about all the aesthetics | 玩游戏,这是所有美学 |
| 140 | that go along with it. | 也一样。 |
| 141 | A mahjong tablescape | 麻将台阶 |
| 142 | typically involves | 通常涉及 |
| 143 | your mat, your racks, | 你的垫子,你的架子, |
| 144 | coasters, dice, | 吊车 骰子 |
| 145 | dishes. | 盘子。 |
| 146 | There's a whole | 有一整个 |
| 147 | world out there of people wanting | 外面的人们渴望 |
| 148 | to get their tablescape | 以获得他们的表景 |
| 149 | perfected. | 完美无缺 |
| 150 | And so they go to | 所以他们去 |
| 151 | each other in the group and say | 在组合中彼此说 |
| 152 | I have this set of tiles, what | 我有这一套瓷砖,什么 |
| 153 | mat and racks would you suggest? | 垫子和架子,你会建议吗? |
| 154 | Or I bought these racks today, | 或者我今天买了这些架子 |
| 155 | what tiles would go with that? | 什么瓷砖会去吗? |
| 156 | What's happening right now | 现在怎么了? |
| 157 | is quite new | 这是全新的 |
| 158 | in that some American | 在一些美国人身上 |
| 159 | mahjong companies | 麻将公司 |
| 160 | that are based, | 基础, |
| 161 | the designers are based in the United States, but they're generally | 设计师的总部在美国,但他们一般是 |
| 162 | being made in China. | 中国制造。 |
| 163 | They might be | 他们可能是 |
| 164 | playing with references to | 播放参考文献 |
| 165 | American mahjong culture and slang | 美国麻将文化与口号 |
| 166 | that another person | 那另一个人 |
| 167 | who plays a different kind of mahjong wouldn't | 谁打不同种类的麻将不会 |
| 168 | be familiar with. | 熟悉点 |
| 169 | I'm not | 我没有 |
| 170 | a mahjong purist. | 麻将清人. |
| 171 | I | 一、导 言 |
| 172 | started this thing just six, | 这件事情刚刚开始6, |
| 173 | eight months ago. | 八个月前 |
| 174 | So I love | 所以我爱 |
| 175 | all the new designs, but I can | 所有的新设计, 但我可以 |
| 176 | understand people who have | 了解那些拥有 |
| 177 | been playing for 50 years or maybe | 玩了50年,也许 |
| 178 | their grandmother played. | 他们的祖母演奏。 |
| 179 | It's | 这是 |
| 180 | probably a little odd to see things | 看东西可能有点奇怪 |
| 181 | that aren't the traditional faces on | 而不是传统的面孔 |
| 182 | the tiles. | 瓷砖。 |
| 183 | We are | 我们是 |
| 184 | reaching a point where | 达到 |
| 185 | it's a fair question to | 这是一个公平的问题 |
| 186 | ask. | 问。 |
| 187 | If a game | 如果游戏 |
| 188 | is played | 正在播放 |
| 189 | with unrecognizable equipment, | 拥有无法辨认的设备, |
| 190 | is it actually the same game | 其实是同一个游戏 |
| 191 | still or has it changed to the | 还是改了 |
| 192 | point of becoming something else? | 成为别的东西? |
| 193 | I would be sad if | 如果 |
| 194 | American mahjong | 美国麻将 |
| 195 | really became fully | 变得很完美 |
| 196 | divorced from a global | 脱离全局 |
| 197 | context of mahjong because I think that | 打麻将是因为我觉得 |
| 198 | ability to connect across | 连接能力 |
| 199 | difference is quite | 差别很大 |
| 200 | powerful and something we really need. | 强大和我们真正需要的东西。 |
| 201 | I try to | 我试着 |
| 202 | brand the contemporary | 当代品牌 |
| 203 | art with my father's | 和我父亲的艺术 |
| 204 | traditional way of hand crafting. | 传统手工制作方式。 |
| 205 | Mahjong is really | 麻将真的是 |
| 206 | very important for my family. | 对我的家人来说非常重要 |
| 207 | I witnessed the up and down, | 我亲眼目睹了上下 |
| 208 | the disappearing of such kind | 此类消失 |
| 209 | of traditional game among people | 传统游戏 |
| 210 | during the 2000s. | 2000年代期间。 |
| 211 | So I built up Kerala Aruba | 所以我建立了喀拉拉阿鲁巴 |
| 212 | Arts because I keep thinking, can I | 艺术,因为我一直在想,我可以 |
| 213 | do something related to the arts or | 做一些与艺术有关的事情或 |
| 214 | crafts that can be kept for the long | 可以长期保存的手工艺品 |
| 215 | term? | 学期? |
| 216 | I think for Kerala Aruba | 我想对于喀拉拉阿鲁巴 |
| 217 | Arts we want to focus on some | 艺术,我们要专注于一些 |
| 218 | unique hand crafting work. | 独一无二的手工工艺 |
| 219 | So I try to use the | 所以我试着用 |
| 220 | illustration laser engraved | 刻有插图的激光 |
| 221 | but then my father still | 但是我父亲还是 |
| 222 | hand crafting on some traditional | 手在传统工艺上 |
| 223 | mahjong patterns. | 麻将图案. |
| 224 | When I come up with the | 当我想出 |
| 225 | design, I try to keep some | 设计,我试着保留一些 |
| 226 | traditional cultural elements. | 传统文化要素。 |
| 227 | For example, | 举例来说, |
| 228 | I will try to study the background, the history | 我会试着研究背景和历史 |
| 229 | to understand why people | 理解为什么人们 |
| 230 | design in this way. | 以这种方式设计。 |
| 231 | One of the mission of Kerala Aruba Arts | 喀拉拉阿鲁巴艺术任务之一 |
| 232 | is to keep on training people | 继续训练人才 |
| 233 | but because my father closed the factory | 但因为我父亲关闭了工厂 |
| 234 | they even lost all the mahjong | 他们甚至失去了所有的麻将 |
| 235 | tools. | 工具。 |
| 236 | I realized that if we want | 我意识到,如果我们想要 |
| 237 | to teach people hand crafting, | 教人们手工制作, |
| 238 | they do not have enough tools. | 他们没有足够的工具。 |
| 239 | Luckily my husband's brother | 幸好是我丈夫的哥哥,我还好 |
| 240 | is also one of the | 这也是其中之一 |
| 241 | wood craftsmen. | 木匠们 |
| 242 | He helped me | 他帮我 |
| 243 | to recreate a few sets and | 来重现几套 |
| 244 | then we found a | 然后我们找到一个 |
| 245 | factory in Malaysia. | 马来西亚的工厂。 |
| 246 | He can | 他会的 |
| 247 | recreate the scissors for us. | 为我们重新创造剪刀。 |
| 248 | So right now we have around | 所以现在我们有了 |
| 249 | eight to five full sets of | 8至5套全套设备 |
| 250 | mahjong making tools. | 麻将制造工具. |
| 251 | I mean that is quite difficult | 我的意思是,这是相当困难的 |
| 252 | to pass the professional | 以通过专业 |
| 253 | skills to the next generation | 向下一代传授技能 |
| 254 | because they really need to devote a lot | 因为他们真的需要投入很多 |
| 255 | of time in practicing | 练习时间 |
| 256 | but I do see that my role | 但我确实看到了我的角色 |
| 257 | helps to build up the gap between the next | 帮助在下一个 |
| 258 | generation and my father's | 和我父亲的 |
| 259 | traditional elderly's partnership. | 传统的老年人伙伴关系。 |
| 260 | If we keep on doing something, I still | 如果我们继续做一些事情,我仍然 |
| 261 | trust that we can keep on moving | 相信我们能继续前进 |
| 262 | on passing such kind of skills. | 传递这种技能。 |
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