Poker is here and there. Maybe you are enjoy playing poker with your
family or friends, but you are not familiar with it like me, such as its
history, moral, playing ways. Now, followed me! Let’s
traced back to the
sources of the Poker.
There are two meanings of Poker: One means poker cards, called playing
cards as well. Another means the game which played by playing cards, named
Poker game. Playing cards of 54 pieaces and 60 pieaces of two dimensional
poker.
Many different reasons have been given about the resource of poker, some
of scholars of France, Belgium, Italy, Egypt, India and North Korea insist take
poker was invented by their own country, but what a pity that there is no
conclusive historical data to exquisite, yet no consensus.
So far, the view which was universally accepted by Chinese and foreign
scholars is modern poker originated from a game playing cards named “Leaves Game”
in Tang Dynasty of China.
Far away the early period of Zhou Dynasty, the young Zhou Cheng King had
to play a game--"Cut Indus Leaf for Gyu’’ with his brother Shu-Yu in the
palace. Before the invention of paper, thus, leaves for the toy.
According to legend, as early
battle in the late Qin and Chu-Han period, in order to ease soldiers'
homesickness, the General Han Xin invented a card game. Because the size as the
size of leaves, so called "leaves play. (“Leaves cards”, the size as two
fingers. length and width is 8 cm and 2.5 cm separately, framed with silk and
paper, pattern is printed with woodblocks). It is said that this is the
embryonic form of poker. From the literati and scholars to civilians, who are
bored.
The era of the Tang and Song, Chinese ancestors invented a card for both
games and gambling, called "leaves play”.
To the Ming and Qing Dynasties, "leaves play", 40 pieces per
pair, divided into four categories. Pattern
on the card, heading many figures: birds, animals, flowers,
birds, insects, fish and so on. After the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic, the
length of cards about 8 cm and the width about 2 cm, called Solitaire by people.
The 12th century, this
card game was brought to Europe by Marco Polo, which aroused great interest of
the Westerners immediately. At the beginning, it is only the nobles’s luxury,
but because of its low cost, diverse play ways and easy to learn, therefore, it
was in fashion in the civil quickly. But another way of saying is that early poker is likely to be brought
to Europe by the Egyptian in the 14th century.