位于纽约东村的台湾餐厅886现在成了社交中心，数十位年轻人一边吃饭一边连续打麻将，显示该游戏受众正在从老年群体转向更年轻的社交圈。票务平台Eventbrite显示，过去一年全球麻将赛事参与人数已增长超过3倍，活动固定在柏林、赫尔辛基、伦敦、洛杉矶、纽约、巴黎和悉尼等城市举行，部分场次人数可达800人。

线上势头同样强劲：YouTube上有数百个麻将教程，过去一年TikTok上的麻将内容增长70%，并超过10万条帖子。该游戏起源于19世纪的上海赌博文化，随后在本世纪末进入上海及中国家庭，并在1920年代传入美国，后由1937年由女性主导联盟进一步标准化；今天仍存在数十种变体，规则和计分方式各不相同。

2020年代的复兴由流行文化、感官吸引力与社交功能共同推动：Netflix、动漫、漫画和电影将麻将塑造成策略与张力的符号，而有形牌局在触摸和听感上又形成对数字疲劳的模拟世界对照。奢侈化已成市场信号，Hermès、Prada及路易威登的Vanity麻将箱（48,000英镑/64,000美元）都在此列；疫情后的俱乐部显示出对低成本线下互动的需求，心理和健康线索进一步增强吸引力，因为常玩者会体验心流，并且研究显示老年人中常规游戏与更低抑郁率及认知功能维持相关。

At 886, a Taiwanese restaurant in New York’s East Village, dozens of young people now gather to play multiple rounds while dining, showing a broader shift from a mainly older hobby toward a youth social scene. Eventbrite reports global mahjong-event attendance has increased by more than 3x in the past year, with regular events held in Berlin, Helsinki, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, and Sydney, and some sessions reaching 800 attendees.

Online momentum is also strong: YouTube hosts hundreds of tutorials, and TikTok mahjong content rose 70% in the past year to more than 100,000 posts. The game began as a gambling-linked pastime in 19th-century Shanghai, spread into Shanghai and Chinese households by century’s end, entered the United States in the 1920s, and was later standardized by a women-led league in 1937; today, dozens of variants remain, each with different rules and scoring.

The 2020s revival is driven by pop-culture visibility, sensory appeal, and social value: platforms like Netflix, anime, manga, and film frame mahjong as strategy and tension, while its tactile and audible tile play offers an analog counterpoint to digital fatigue. A luxury turn has emerged as a market signal—Hermès, Prada, and Louis Vuitton’s Vanity Mahjong Trunk priced at £48,000/$64,000—and post-pandemic clubs reflect demand for affordable face-to-face interaction, with additional appeal from mental-health signals where regular play is linked to flow states and, in studies, lower depression rates and preserved cognitive function in older adults.

Source: Young people all over the world are clicking with mahjong

Subtitle: The tile-based game is now played in trendy venues as well as retirement homes

Dateline: 3月 26, 2026 04:46 上午 | NEW YORK