Big and small news on January 14 (YMG all-media reporter He Xiaobo photo report) A 12-year-old primary school girl spent 4 years to collect stamps from 255 countries and regions on five continents of the world, refreshing her own Guinness World Record, and realizing the reunion of world stamps between her square inches. On January 14, Tong Yina, a third-grade fifth grade of the Experimental Primary School in Yantai Development Zone, humbly said in the face of her philatelic achievements, "Stamp collecting is from interest, and now dreams of establishing a world stamp museum in Yantai to convey a special postal culture." ”
Stamps are known as national business cards, small stamps, inches into the years, witnessing history. Speaking of her philatelic hobbies, Tong Yina said that she started when she was 8 years old when she was in the first grade of primary school, and saw her grandmother who had been collecting stamps take out her philatelic albums and tell Ina some stories on the small stamps: the same is a rural house, the red bricks and green tiles under the smoke and rain in Jiangnan, and the north is a row of small courtyards; the same zodiac pattern, the southern style is playful and flexible, the northern style is thick and solid; the stamps are characters, flowers and birds, and even everything can be presented on it, there are domestic and foreign, it can be said that the small stamp is all-encompassing, Condensed history, humanities, the story behind it is told through the grandmother, and the vivid image attracts the young Tong Yina.
It was from that time that Tong Yina gradually liked philately, and over the past few years, she has received and purchased stamps from 255 countries and regions on five continents in the world, surpassing the Guinness Book of World Records, creating a new world record, and achieving a world stamp reunion. In 2021, due to the collection of 11,765 stamps from 110 countries and regions, setting a world record for the World Records Association as "the teenager with the largest collection of stamps from different countries and regions in the world", the Guinness Certification Officer of the World awarded the "World Record Certificate" to Tong Yina in Hong Kong. Now, a year later, Tong Yina has once again refreshed her record, and has collected more than 50,000 stamps, including 255 countries and regions on five continents in the world.
According to Tong Yina's grandfather, Tong Yina collects and buys stamps, mainly at philatelic websites and philatelic markets. Old stamps purchased are also degummed and bookleted by country. Among her more than 50,000 stamp albums, there are also rare stamps in the history of the world's stamps, such as the world's highest value stamps, the smallest denomination stamps, the highest stamps, the longest stamps, the largest area, the smallest stamps, as well as a full set of Stamps jointly issued by China and foreign countries, flag stamps of more than 100 countries and so on.
It cost a lot of money to buy these Chinese and foreign stamps, but this is all the money that Tong Yina gave from her elders. She said that the money spent is worth the money, she also learned a lot of knowledge from the process of stamp collection, broadened her horizons, and successfully held the Youth World Stamp Exhibition in the Library of the Development Zone in October 2020, so that Yantai people can see the true appearance of stamps from all over the world at their doorstep and enjoy the influence of philatelic culture.
Due to the current entry into the era of Internet electronic communication, traditional postal communications have been affected a lot, and the traditional communication era of posting a stamp on the envelope and delivering letters to the mailbox may withdraw from the historical stage in the future. Therefore, Tong Yina said that her biggest dream is to establish the "Yantai World Stamp Museum" in Yantai, to display the stamps in her personal collection free of charge, share them with others, and contribute to the culture of Yantai, so that the world can touch the world philatelic culture in Yantai and pass on a special postal culture.
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