Where did playing cards originate?

This issue has caused controversy abroad. The Italian said: The first person who invented playing cards in the world was the Venetian. Ancient Venetian merchants went out to do business and invented playing cards to calculate the date and amuse themselves. The Frenchman said: Poker was designed by a scholar in 1392 to entertain the mentally ill French emperor charles vi. The Belgian said: As early as 1379, playing cards appeared in Belgium. However, there is a document of a Swiss monk in the British Museum, which records that playing cards were spread to Switzerland in 1377.

Some people abroad think that playing cards should be invented by China people. Because in the Song Dynasty in China, a kind of "Ye Zi Xi" brand (called "Ye Zi Brand") was popular among the people, and its size was two fingers. The "leaf card" with a length of 8 cm and a width of 2.5 cm is made of silk and paper, and the pattern is printed by woodcut. They believe that this kind of playing card was spread abroad by businessmen and missionaries in the Ming Dynasty or the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Inspired by this, the West was transformed into a popular playing card.

The design of playing cards is very wonderful. It is designed according to the calendar. Why is a deck of playing cards 52 (except Wang and Xiao Wang)? It turns out that this is because there are 52 weeks in a year. Why are playing cards divided into four colors: hearts, diamonds, grass flowers and spades? It symbolizes the four seasons of the year: spring, summer, autumn and winter. So it's not hard for us to figure out why each suit has 13 cards, which means that there are 13 weeks in a season.

If you add up all the points of 54 cards, you can further prove the relationship between playing cards and calendars. If "J" is eleven o'clock, "Q" is twelve o'clock, and "K" is thirteen o'clock, Wang and Xiao Wang each count half points, and the points of 54 cards add up to exactly the total number of days in the whole year.

The design of big and small trump cards also makes sense. Wang (commander in chief) represents the sun and Xiao Wang represents the moon. Why is a deck of cards divided into red (hearts and diamonds) and black (flowers and spades)? Now you can understand why: red stands for day and black stands for night.

There are different opinions about the origin of playing cards in the West, Indian and China. But * * * in terms of recognition, then

It originated in Babylon, Egypt, and fortune-telling with playing cards was invented by gypsies. Around the seventh century BC

During the Kyrgyzstan dynasty, gypsies introduced card divination to Europe. In Napoleon's time, there was a man named "Madame Norman".

Woman, rearrange the original playing cards and make them into today's form. It is worth mentioning that gypsies

Up to now, 78 playing cards are still used for divination. It is said that people's fate is divined in this way, and its accuracy is unbelievable.

Accuracy.