[Water Margin Figure Card]
Water Margin Figure Card, clear, 8.5 cm long, 0.4 cm wide
Solitaire is a popular game in ancient China, which is developed from the leaf pattern of the Tang Dynasty. Because of its simple and stimulating playing method, poker has become a very popular game among Chinese people
This deck of cards was used by the Empress of the Qing Dynasty. The whole deck of 120 cards is rectangular, with white as the ground and black, green, yellow and other colored edges around. The card face presents different graphics according to needs, such as “Wanguan”, which has 10000 to 90000 characters, all of them are outlaws of the marsh; The “rope” is the rope shape through money; “Wen Qian” is represented by graphics. The pattern in the card is exquisite, the lines are simple and lifelike. It is a unique game instrument in the court games of the Qing Dynasty
![图片[1]-Water Margin Figure Solitaire-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qing dynasty/Household appliances/56259[1024].jpg)
![[Qing Dynasty] British female painter—Elizabeth Keith, using woodblock prints to record China from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China—1915-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/image-191x300.png)
