What is the origin and history of playing cards?

Poker is a paper toy that is popular all over the world. It can be used for entertainment and gambling. Because of the different ways of playing, it is commonly known as Card, Wanliu, Majiu, etc., with different titles. Its standard name is poker.

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(ACE) as the largest and 2 as the smallest may have started after the French Revolution at the end of18th century. Now in China, ghost cards are generally the biggest, second, A is the third, followed by K, JOKER was invented by Americans, and then sent back to Europe with poker.

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Playing cards are divided into four colors: spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts. 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.

These four patterns, as the colors of playing cards, have been said a lot. 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; The heart shape symbolizes wisdom and love.

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