How did the pattern design of playing cards come from?

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, followed by A and K.

JOKER was invented by Americans and later sent back to Europe with poker.

The earliest number of playing cards varied from place to place. 78 in Italy, 32 in Germany, 40 in Spain and 52 in France. In the future, there will be 52 cards in each deck of international playing cards, plus two wild cards (also known as kings or children) and 54 cards. At this point, the design and color, the number of points and the patterns of K, Q and J on the playing cards are basically finalized.

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".

Later, according to the calendar in astronomy, westerners unified the content of this card game, which was set at 54 cards and four colors. In this way, after a long period of evolution, it gradually tends to be consistent.

There are many ways to play cards, the most common ones are bridge, percentage play, red dot fishing, hundred tricks, 2 1 minute, 24 minutes and so on. Because the number of playing cards conforms to the astronomical calendar, there is a saying that playing cards are the epitome of the calendar for the following reasons:

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.

Poker is not only made of paper, but also made of many other materials. Cloisonne Poker, Gold Foil Poker, Crystal Poker, Agate Poker, Ivory Poker, Elephant Bone Poker, Horn Poker, Bamboo Poker, Plexiglass Poker, FRP Poker ... These poker cards are all used for collection and are rarely used for playing. For example, agate poker, ivory elephant bone poker, and ox horn and ox bone poker are all made in the shape of mahjong, but they are still playing poker. There are also many special-shaped playing cards, such as circles, Christmas trees, shoes, triangles, snowmen and so on.