Poker is a popular gambling paper tool that is popular around the world. Because of their play is different, it is commonly known as the card, six thousand, mother nine, etc., called different. Its standard name poker is poker transliteration.
The origin of the poker can not be fully determined, but generally believed to be derived from the twelfth and thirteenth century Southern Song Dynasty came the leaves of China. Another widely identified is the legend of the evolution from the Tarot. Early poker was likely to be introduced from Europe to Europe at the end of the 14th century.
15 years when the K is usually regarded as the largest card, A is the smallest card. Now as A maximum, 2 as the smallest way may be from the late eighteenth century after the French Revolution began.
"Goku" (JOKER) is the invention of the United States, and then with the poker back to Europe.
The origin of poker, has a long history. People only know that poker is from foreign Europe, in fact, paper toys originated in China.
Far away in the early Zhou Dynasty, the legendary young Zhou Cheng Wang in the palace with his brother Shu Yu had played a "cut Tong Ye for Gu" game. At that time did not invent the paper, so the leaves for the toys. Tang, Song Dynasty, China's ancestors invented a card, both games, but also gambling, called "leaf play." There are legendary generals Han Xin in order to reduce the nostalgia soldiers in the army invented a for the entertainment with the card, because it is only the size of the leaves, so called the leaves play. From the literati, down to the civilian population, are never tired. To the Ming and Qing dynasties, "leaves play" cards, each pair of 40, divided into four categories. Card pattern, many items, there are people, birds, animals, flowers, birds, insects, fish and so on. After the end of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, the card about 8 cm, 2 cm wide, people call cards. Before and after the founding of the country, Chaoshan folk also popular card gambling, play by a simple arrangement and gradually become diverse, each card on the drawing of 1 to 10 points of the digital, or painted on the chess on the "handsome, Car and other 32 words, dividends, blue, black, white 4 colors, a total of 64, as arranged gambling .2 to 4 people a total of gambling.
About the 13th century AD, this card play, spread to Europe, after a period of time, cards evolved into cards, and gradually formed a universal poker, an international card.
The number of the earliest poker cards, different around Italy each of the 78, Germany, each pair of 32, 40 per pair of Spain, France, each of the 52. And later became an international poker sub-52, plus "joker" (Joker, also known as the size of the king or the size of the ghost) two, a total of 54. At this point, playing cards on the color, points and k, q, j pattern, basically stereotypes.
Poker cards are divided into four colors, namely spades, hearts, square corners, plum blossoms. Four kinds of colors have different names. French called "spear, heart, square, clove leaves", the Germans called "leaves, heart, bell, oak fruit", the Italians called "sword, coins, sticks, glasses."
Later, according to the Western calendar in the astronomy, this card game card unified content, as 54, four colors. In this way, after a long time of evolution, gradually converge.
There are many kinds of playing cards, the most common of the bridge, hit percentage, catch red, shoot 100, 21 points, 24 points, and so forth. As the cards of the cards in line with the astronomical calendar, it is the epitome of the calendar is the argument, the reason is: playing cards 54, that 52 years a year, two pairs of large cats on behalf of the sun, kittens on behalf of the moon ; Peach, heart, side, plum said spring, summer, autumn and winter seasons. Red card on behalf of the day, the black card on behalf of the night; every season 13 weeks and poker each color is just 13 cards, 13 cards plus 364 points plus the little cat is 365, with the general Year the same number of days; if you add a little cat, it is just the number of days leap year. Poker, k, q, j, etc. a total of 12, both that a year 12 months, but also that the sun in the year after 12 constellations.
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