Playing card

A playing card is a typically hand-sized rectangular (in India, round) piece of heavy paper or thin plastic used for playing card games. A complete set of cards is a pack or deck. Playing cards are often used as props in magic tricks, as well as occult practices such as cartomancy, and a number of card games involve (or can be used to support) gambling. As a result, their use sometimes meets with disapproval from some religious groups (such as conservative Christians). They are also a popular collectible (as distinct from the cards made specifically for collectible trading card games). Specialty and novelty decks are commonly produced for collectors, often with political, cultural, or educational themes.

Representation

It is believed that a deck of cards represents a year; the four suits for the four seasons, the 13 cards per suit for the 13 phases of the lunar cycle, black and red for day and night, and finally, if you add up the value of each card - counting each joker as 1 - the result is 365, the number of days in a year.

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