Chuanguan News reporter Hao Yong
On the afternoon of January 5th, the first special stamp launch event of "The Year of Nongyin" was held in Chengdu. The Sichuan Branch of China Post Group Co., Ltd. issued a set of 2 special stamps and 1 small promissory note on the same day.
According to the person in charge of the relevant department of the provincial postal branch, the stamp design names are Guoyun Changlong and Huyun auspicious, and the face value of the full set of stamps is 2.40 yuan.
The 2022 "Year of Nong yin" special stamps are the seventh set in the fourth round of Chinese zodiac stamps, created by Mr. Feng Dazhong, a famous painter and national first-class artist who is famous for painting tigers. The image of the tiger in the special stamp of "The Year of Nongyin" starts from the "real", obtains the nature of the tiger, and carefully interprets the beauty of the tiger. The stamp continues the design concept of the fourth round of zodiac stamps, interpreting the concept of "country" and "home".
"National Fortune Changlong" depicts the image of an imposing mountain tiger, standing tall and ambitious, conveying the meaning of the country's prosperity and ambition;
"Tiger Yun Auspicious" depicts a warm scene of a gentle tiger mother with two young tigers, implying that children and grandchildren are prosperous and the family is happy.
The set of stamps is presented using offset engraving combined printing, engraved by Yuan Yishan and Liu Minghui, and printed by Beijing Stamp Factory Co., Ltd.
Of particular note is the design of this set of stamp small promissory notes. The small promissory note is designed by the famous designer Wang Huming, the picture design is ingenious, through the extension of the image of the zodiac tiger with both shape and god, wonderfully presents the picture theme of "National Fortune Changlong" and "Tiger Yun auspicious", and realizes the "five firsts", that is, the first display of the zodiac stamp superimposed color printing, the first time to form the inner page of the stamp in four directions, the first time to present the left and right folding form, the first time to increase the inner page stamp fluorescent spray code, the first use of tactile glazing process.
On the same day, the branch venues of our province also held the launch ceremony of the zodiac stamps of the "Year of Nongyin" and successively launched a series of colorful local characteristics "Zodiac Carnival" series of activities, and the Zodiac Collection and Tibetan Cultural Series products will also be released and sold at postal outlets at all levels.