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contain eight series of cards repeated eight times. One card from each series is a special version of the card differentiated from the rest by depicting a human or doll. Each series is marked by one character that when strung together forms a blessing. Included in each deck is a ninth characterless
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There is no 10 Myriad card as it would share the same name as its suit. By the late 16th-century, the suit of Cash added two more cards: Half Cash and Zero Cash. The Cash suit was also in reverse order with the lower number cards beating the higher. This feature also appeared in other early card
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Some cards have illustrations and/or poetry on them. During the Ming dynasty, most packs were printed as dual-use decks, which allowed them to be used just like money-suited playing cards for other card games.
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Money-suited cards have attracted the most attention from scholars. They are considered to be the ancestors of most of the world's playing cards. Each suit represents a different unit of currency.
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Lo, Andrew (2004) 'China's Passion for Pai: Playing Cards, Dominoes, and Mahjong.' In: Mackenzie, C. and Finkel, I., (eds.), Asian Games: The Art of Contest. New York: Asia Society, pp. 217-231.
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but one is in ordinary script while the other is in the financial or formal script. Some decks come with special suitless cards. There are 4 copies of each card.
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noted that the three-suited decks were ten times more popular than four-suited ones prior to 1783, a disparity which has since significantly increased.
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come in different sizes. Smaller decks are used in trick-taking and banking games. 32-card decks, with the civil suit doubled, are used to play
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Like money-suited cards with mahjong tiles, there are tile versions of chess cards. In Taiwan, two-suited versions are used to play
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Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed to the Trustees of the British museum by the late Lady Charlotte Schreiber
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are quite similar to Six Tigers packs but each deck contains only two suits and includes rank 10. Both suits are labelled in
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from early Chinese banknotes. Some cards, most commonly the highest and lowest of each suit, will have a red stamp mimicking
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were invented in China. Trick-taking games eventually became multi-trick games. These then evolved into the earliest type of
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Unlike other types of Chinese cards, they have not spread to other countries and are largely confined to southern China.
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became more popular. This was done by removing the suit of Tens save for the Thousand Myriad as in the game of
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first appeared around the Southern Song dynasty and are derived from all twenty-one combinations of a pair of
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attribute to the Chinese the invention of playing cards. Michael Dummett also contends that the concept of
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games during the eighteenth century. By the end of the monarchy, the vast majority of traditional Chinese
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of Myriads: 20 to 90 Myriad, Hundred Myriad, Thousand Myriad, and Myriad Myriad (11 cards in total)
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were of the draw-and-discard or fishing variety. Chinese playing cards have been spread into
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series with seven cards showing one doll and one card showing two dolls. They are found in
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The earliest unambiguous reference to playing cards is from a 1320 legal compilation, the
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Although originating from tiles, domino card games inspired the creation of a tile game,
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The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652): Authentic Voices, Expanding Markets
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cards after one of the most popular games. The suits of Cash and Strings derive their
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dynasty (960–1127) is often mistaken for a card game but it is described as a type of
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Ladies of a Mandarin's family playing a game of cards. Drawing by Thomas Allom (1843).
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along with nine of their paper playing cards and the woodblocks used to print them.
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cards were possibly a descendant. Ultimately, all four-suited decks (especially
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dynasties, the suit of Myriads and Tens depicted characters from the novel the
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The Game of Leaves: An Inquiry into the Origin of Chinese Playing Cards
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Chinese domino cards with civil suit on top and military on the bottom.
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packs) are indirectly descended from the money-suited system through
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are arguably the earliest playing cards since they originate in the
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Three-suited Water Margin deck, markings on ends serve as indices.
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to depict people wearing traditional Japanese costumes from the
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Great Man cards. Inscription is to be read from right to left.
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Detailed scans of complete deck of traditional Chinese cards
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Old Incidents in the Xuanhe Period of the Great Song Dynasty
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Detailed scans of complete deck of Luk Fu/Six Tigers cards
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Lo, Andrew (2003). "Pan Zhiheng's 'Xu Yezi Pu' - Part 2".
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in which players consulted the leaves (pages) of a book.
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or Cherki in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Korean
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Chinese and Southeast Asian playing cards and tiles
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Playing cards
simplified Chinese
traditional Chinese
pinyin
Southern Song dynasty
Mongol
Yuan dynasty
William Henry Wilkinson
Stewart Culin
Thomas F. Carter
Michael Dummett
suits
trick-taking games
rummy
card games
Southeast Asia
leaf game
Emperor Yizong of Tang
Northern Song
Shengguan Tu
board game
dice
Ouyang Xiu
Li Qingzhao
Yáng Yì
大元聖政國朝典章
Shandong

Guang Chengzi

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