What does the clown in poker mean? What does he stand for?

The clown in poker means GREAT GHOST, a child, or a great king and a little king. Some places are called big turtles and small turtles, or big cats and kittens. Clowns represent the sun and the moon.

According to the research of some foreign experts, the name "Clown" appears between 1860 and 1880. As for how the name came from, some people say it has something to do with the number 0 of tarot cards. This card is called "fool" and the design is tramp. This card is also quite special in tarot cards. Others said that this title was related to a card game at that time.

Extended data:

The origin of playing cards is uncertain, but it is generally believed that it evolved from French tarot cards. The early playing cards were introduced to Europe from Egypt at the end of 14.

In the15th century, K was usually considered as the biggest card, while A was the smallest card. The way to regard A as the largest and 2 as the smallest now may have started after the French Revolution at the end of18th century.

JOKER was invented by Americans and later sent back to Europe with poker. The earliest number of playing cards varied from place to place. 78 in Italy, 32 in Germany, 40 in Spain and 52 in France.

In the future, there will be 52 cards in each deck of international playing cards, plus two wild cards (also known as kings or children) and 54 cards. At this point, the design and color, the number of points and the patterns of K, Q and J on the playing cards are basically finalized.

Later, according to the calendar in astronomy, westerners unified the content of this card game, which was set at 54 cards and four colors. In this way, after a long period of evolution, it gradually tends to be consistent.

54 playing cards, indicating that there are 52 weeks in a year, two pairs of big cats represent the sun and kittens represent the moon; Peach, heart, square and plum represent spring, summer, autumn and winter. The red card represents the day and the black card represents the night; Every season, 13 weeks, the number of cards in each set of poker is exactly 13.

The sum of the points of 52 cards is 364, plus the points of kittens, it is 365, which is the same as the number of days in a general year; If we increase the number of cats, it will be the number of days in leap year. K, Q, J***, a total of 12 cards, indicating that there are 12 months in a year, and the sun passes through 12 constellations in a year.

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