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Red heart fortune telling

What does the heart in playing cards stand for?

Blessed hearts, rich diamonds, tired spades, and worried clubs.

Playing cards evolved from French tarot cards, and 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.

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 international playing cards in each deck, plus two wild cards, totaling 54 cards.

When interpreting divination with playing cards, 1 to 13 respectively represent: 1 stands for oneself; 2 stands for half-hearted; 3 stands for support; 4 stands for small fortune; 5 stands for Xiao Xi; 6 stands for shun; 7 stands for anger; 8 stands for making a fortune; 9 stands for friends; 10 represents great joy; 1 1 stands for villain; 12 stands for a friend, husband or wife of the opposite sex; 13 stands for wealth!

Poker has four colors, namely spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds. Spades and clubs are black, the other two are hearts and diamonds are red.

Thirteen cards of each pattern, with numbers from one to ten, English letters J, Q, K, cards from one to ten are represented by the number of patterns, and J, Q, K are represented by head cards.