According to another source mahjongg started with seven tiles bearing the characters for duke, marquis, general, chancellor, civil, military and hundred. A Chekiang deck hand called Ch'en Yu-men altered these to the four winds plus a red dragon, green dragon and white.
另有一種說法：麻雀牌原來有公、侯、將、相、文、武、和百，一共七個字，一個在船上工作的浙江人陳魚門，就把它改成東、西、南、北四風及中、發、白。