What is the history of playing cards?

Card playing can walk from China in the seventh century and were certainly known in China until the 11th century. Their history is difficult and sometimes it is difficult to verify, thanks to the fact that playing cards tend to decompose in a very short time, making it difficult to follow historical examples of playing cards. Card playing is also quite diverse, with different regions having different suits and different amounts of cards that can sometimes be frustrating for travelers. As the playing cards moved around Asia, the suits and the number of deck cards, including 36 to 72 cards, mutated, with three, four and five suits and sometimes even more. At the end of the 14th century, playing cards were introduced to Europe, where they proved to be very popular.

timely playing cards were made manually, making them extremely expensive and were also larger than the playing cards used today. Only the elite could play cards, which would lead some companies to associate playing cards with higher classes. In addition to being used to play games, HR wereAcknowledging cards historically used for Cartomancy, which is a form of happiness that tells which uses playing cards. The Tarot deck, which is greatly used in Cartomance, is used by the game of card games in many parts of Europe.

In general, playing cards could be divided between PIP and Court cards until they arrived in Europe, with suits cards, while PIP cards were marked with different number of objects representing their suit.

The arriats of the basic design of the playing card appeared. Most English speakers are familiar with the so -called "French" system of playing cards, which include 52 cards divided into hearts, diamonds, clubs and piks with 10 PIP cards and three court cards in each suit. In the 18th century, Americans added joker, while the concept of "Aces high" appeared during the French Revolution.

It is also possible to find playing cards arranged in Latin suits: Chalices, swords, money and batons are used to representor four suits in places like Spain and Italy, while Germany and parts of Eastern Europe seem to prefer Germanic actions, acorns, bells and leaves. Asian playing cards are even more complicated, such as Japanese Hanafuda or "Flower Cards" and Indian Game Cards with suits that represent elements associated with different gods.