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social game using playing cards. Oil painting by an unknown
artist, c1850.       Early history[edit]   Playing cards were
invented in Imperial China.[2][3][4] They were found in China as
early as the 9th century during the Tang Dynasty
(618–907).[5][6][7] The first reference to card games dates from
the 9th century, when the Collection of Miscellanea at Duyang,
written by Tang Dynasty writer Su E, described Princess
Tongchang, daughter of Emperor Yizong of Tang, playing the "leaf
game" in 868 with members of the Wei clan, the family of the
princess' husband.[4][8][9]:131 The Song Dynasty (960–1279)
scholar Ouyang Xiu (1007–1072) asserted that playing cards and
card games existed at least since the mid-Tang Dynasty and
associated their invention with the simultaneous development of
using sheets or pages instead of paper rolls as a writing
medium.[3][4] The first known book on cards called Yezi Gex