清初学者、诗人吴伟业认为明朝是灭亡于“马吊牌”，此论未免有些舍本途末，但也可见马吊在明朝朝野流行之广和危害之深。马吊是麻将牌的前身，它原是一种纸牌，于清代中叶以后逐渐演变成为麻将。麻将比马吊更加复杂精妙，花样也更为繁多，因而吸引力更大。维新派领袖人物梁启 Early Qing scholars and poets Wu Weiye that the Ming Dynasty is the extinction of the “horse tag”, this theory is somewhat of a sacrifice of this way, but we can see the horse hung in the Ming dynasty popular and harmful. Ma hanging is the predecessor of the mahjong card, which was originally a solitaire, gradually evolved into a mahjong after the middle of the Qing Dynasty. Mahjong than horse hanging more sophisticated, tricks are more numerous, and thus more attractive. Reformer Leader Liang Qi