As a researcher at Academia Sinica has observed, mahjongg was a major pursuit within the communities of mainland dependents who crossed to Taiwan with the Nationalist forces in 1949.
中央研究院一位學者指出，大陸剛淪陷時，幾十萬軍人隨政府來台，造成了一種特有的居住形態﹘﹘眷村。