The reason why the King of Poker Cards is a clown

1. In the process of playing cards, the clown card can replace any card. Due to the emergence of such "universal cards", it becomes true over time that becomes the wild card, which is the biggest card.

2. "Philosophical" reasons: Power is only temporary, but joy is eternal. The king represents power, while the clown symbolizes joy, so the clown card is the largest.

3. The divination effect of tarot cards, the clown card is the biggest, which is good luck.

4. The two clowns represent the sun and the moon respectively, and the king is not as high as the sun, moon and stars.

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The origin and connotation of the Joker card

The Joker card (JOKER) was an invention in the United States, and was then spread back to Europe along with poker. The number of earliest playing cards varied from place to place. Italy has 78 cards per deck, Germany has 32 cards per deck, Spain has 40 cards per deck, and France has 52 cards per deck. But what later became an international playing card was 52 cards per deck, plus two Joker cards (also known as Big and Little Kings or Big and Little Ghosts), for a total of 54 cards.

There are 54 playing cards, representing the 52 weeks in a year. The two clown cards, the king represents the sun and the small king represents the moon; peach, heart, square and plum represent the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The red cards represent day and the black cards represent night; the 13 weeks of each season and the number of cards in each suit of poker are exactly 13.

The sum of the points of the 52 cards is 364, plus Xiao Wang's point, it is 365, which is the same as the number of days in a normal year; if you add the king's point, it is exactly the number of days in a leap year. There are 12 poker cards K, Q, and J***, which not only represent the 12 months in a year, but also represent the 12 constellations that the sun passes through in a year.

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