What are the four colors of playing cards?

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52 cards are divided into a group of 13, and each group is represented by four colors of spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds. Each group of cards includes 1- 10( 1 usually denoted as A) and 13 cards marked with J, Q and K, and there are thousands of games.

Playing cards are divided into four colors, namely spades, hearts (or hearts), diamonds and clubs. Four colors have different names. The French call it "spear, heart, square and clove leaf", the Germans call it "leaf, heart, bell and acorn" and the Italians call it "sword, coin, stick and wine glass".

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; The 13 week of each season and the number of cards in each set of poker are exactly 13, and 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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It is said 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; The heart shape symbolizes wisdom and love.