What do the patterns in playing cards represent?

Hearts: Summer symbolizes love.

Diamonds: Autumn represents wealth.

Plum blossom: Winter means happiness.

K of hearts: The king in K of hearts is Charlemagne, who established Charlemagne's empire. He is the only king without a beard in poker.

Box K: The king in the box K is Caesar of ancient Rome.

Plum Blossom K: The figure in Plum Blossom K is Alexander, who once founded the Alexander Empire across Europe, Asia and Africa. The portrait in spades K is David, the father of King Solomon of Israel in the 10 century BC. He is good at playing the harp and has written many hymns in the Bible, so this card has the pattern of the harp.

Q of spades: Q of spades is the Greek intellectual society and Sivir, pallas and Athena. Of the four queens, only this one holds a weapon.

Q of hearts: The name of Q of hearts is Jules. She came from Bavaria, Germany, and married Charles I of the Stewart dynasty in England. Later, Charles I was executed for his brutal rule, and Jules remarried to England.

Plum blossom Q: Plum blossom Q implies a story: the royal family of Lancaster in England is symbolized by red roses, and the royal family of York is symbolized by white roses. After the Wild Rose War, the two royal families reconciled and tied their roses together. So the queen has Bai Yutang.

Q of diamonds: Q of diamonds is Queen Raquel, who is Jacob's daughter. Jacob is the father of Yue Se in the Old Testament. He has 65,438+02 sons and established 65,438+02 tribes in Israel.

Spades J and diamonds J: Hokla and Roland, the attendants of Charles I, respectively.

J of hearts: Lahaiya, Charles VII's attendant.

J of clubs: Lancelot, a famous knight in King Arthur's story.

Extended data:

The earliest cards were invented by Zhang Sui, an astronomer in the Tang Dynasty. They were originally called "leaf games" because cards are only as big as leaves. Ouyang Xiu, a writer in the Song Dynasty, also recorded "Yezixi" in the Record of Returning to the Field. In the Yuan Dynasty, Kyle Polo traveled to China and became an official in the imperial court. He has a close relationship with the upper intellectuals and learned the game.

When cards were first introduced to Europe, they were only luxury goods of the nobility, but they soon became popular among the people because of their low cost, diverse playing methods and easy learning. Europeans improved the card game according to their own culture and traditions, and finally "playing cards" appeared.

From the beginning of16th century, a card called "Shengpai" became popular in the west, which evolved into a Whistler card game similar to17th century bridge. 1894, bridge appeared in London Club, England, which evolved into the present playing cards.

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