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Why is plum blossom a weapon of war?

This is a long-standing saying that people play poker, because the plum blossom in poker represents luck, and the other three colors of poker, hearts, spades and diamonds, represent love, peace and wealth respectively. So plum blossom is the most aggressive.

Of course, different countries have different understandings of plum blossom poker. People all over the world give different cultural explanations to the four colors with their own national cultures. The French understand the four colors as spear, square, clove leaf and red heart; Germans understand the four colors as leaves, bells, acorns and hearts. Italians understand the four colors as swords, coins, crutches and wine glasses; The Swiss understand the four colors as acorns, bells, flowers and shields; The British understand the four colors as shovel, diamond, clover and red heart.

Thirdly, there has been a lot of debate about why these four patterns should be used as the patterns and colors of playing cards. There are two kinds of centralized views: one is that these four colors represent the four major industries of society at that time, among which spades represent spears and symbolize soldiers; Plum blossoms represent clover flowers and symbolize agriculture; Square represents bricks used by craftsmen; The heart represents the heart and symbolizes the priest. On the other hand, these four colors come from the patterns of ancient European divination tools, in which spades represent olive leaves and symbolize peace; Plum blossom is a four-leaf clover, which means good luck; The square is a diamond, symbolizing wealth; Red hearts symbolize wisdom and love.

Because plum blossom is clover, it also symbolizes luck; The four colors of heart, diamond, plum blossom and spades symbolize spring, summer, autumn and winter respectively.