Playing Card may come from the east, Egypt or Saudi then appeared in Italy (in the form of Tarot / Taroochi) about the end of the 1200s. After that spread to Germany, France, and Spain.
Maybe all this time we never cared, but the cards that we know is the type of card from the UK. As JACK (J) QUEEN (Q) KING (K) and ACE (A). This type of card from the UK in one setnya totaling 52 pieces, plus the JOKER. Ok, let's to the point ...

There are some phenomenon that we often play cards:

The numbers are 52, why 52? Number of the week in a year is 52, and each card represents one week.

52 .. (5 +2) = 7 = 7 days a week.

Because of the UK that in fact four seasons so the card has 4 types:

Spade (?) Represents winter
Heart (?) Represents autumn
Diamond (?) Represents spring
Club (?) Represents summer

In one type there are 13 cards (from As s / d King) 13 is the number of weeks in a season.

13 .. (1 +3) = 4 = number of seasons in a year = 4 winds.

Item same red color, symbolizing the Day and Night.

If the number of cards in one type you jumlahin all (As = 1, Jack = 11, Queen = 12 and King = 13), the total number is 364! Equal to the number of days in a year, plus 1 Joker, to 365 days.


If the number of letters of the names of a single deck of cards you count, both in English, Dutch, German or French, then the number is 52! Just as the number of weeks in 1 year!
- English: Ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Jack, Queen, King.

- Dutch: Aas, twee, drie, vier, Vijf, zes, seven, Acht, negen, tien, Boer, vrouw, Heer.

- German: As, zwei, drei, fünf, Sechs, sieben, Acht, Neun, Zehn, Bube, Dame, König.

- French: As, deux, trois, quatre, cing, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix Valet, Reine, Roi.

(All the letters are the same number 52!)


Believe it, may be not!

Of each type also represents the four major pillars Middle Ages era.
Spade - Military
Heart - The Church
Diamond - Class Merchants
Club - Aglikultur

Each card Raja (KING) of any kind, represent to some of Great King from history, here:

Spade - King David was King of Israel
Heart - Charlemagne was the founder of the Holy Roman Empire
Diamond - Julius Caesar, The Great Dictator of Rome
Club - Alexander The Great, General MacedoniaHearts --- Spades --- Diamonds --- Clubs
(K) Charlemagne - David - Caesar - Alexander
(Q) Ragnel - Judith - Pallas - Argeia
(J) Ogier - Judah Maccabee - Aulus Hiritus - Hector

Who are they? Those were the days of Middle Age Hero at first, if you want more details, go to Wikipedia wrote ...

In addition there are more mysteries about the cards that can not be answered until now, for example:

Be the only king without a mustache King.

King liver also directed towards his own sword, therefore King Hearts is always called 'The Suicide King'.

King Diamond plasticity only one side of the face, which no other king-king like that.

Queen Spade look to the right, where the Queen-Queen others look to the left.

Queen Spade Queen only holding sticks and flowers, where the only other Queen-Queen holds interest only.

And maybe there are still many things that other hidden, maybe if we examine further, we'll know more about the mystery behind the cards.