Shengji Temple
''Sheng ji'' is a family of point-based, trick-taking card games played in China and in Chinese immigrant communities. They have a dynamic trump, i.e., which cards are trump changes every round. As these games are played over a wide area with no standardization, rules vary widely from region to region. The game can be played with multiple decks of cards. With one deck, it may be called ''dǎ bǎi fēn'' (, 'competing for a hundred points') or ''sìshí fēn'' (, 'forty points'); with two decks, as is most commonly played, it may be called ''bāshí fēn'' (, 'eighty points'), ''tuō lā jī'' (, 'tractor'), ''shuāng kōu'' (, 'double digging out'), or ''shuāng shēng'' (, 'double upgrade'); another variant is called ''zhǎo péngyǒu'' (, 'Finding Friends'), which has five or more players and two or more decks. The article below mainly describes the ''bashi fen'' variant, with players playing with two decks and in fixed partnerships. Players and objective The game is played ...
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A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ...
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