In the context of the global epidemic, the tourism industry has undoubtedly been hit the most, and this upcoming "China Tourism Day" is full of different significance.
On 19 May 2022, China Post will issue the "Ancient Town of China" (IV) stamp, which will show the ancient towns in the four lands of China, and it is very likely that two World Heritage sites will be listed on the stamp.
Since China Post issued the "Ancient Town of China" series of stamps in 2013, it has successfully issued three sets so far, showing the harmonious coexistence of Chinese ancestors and nature through stamps, and has successfully boarded stamps in 18 ancient towns:
On May 19, 2022, China Post will issue the "Ancient Town of China" stamp (IV), which four ancient towns will be selected as the performance points this time?
Anhai Town, Jinjiang, Fujian
Anhai Ancient Town, located in the southwest of Jinjiang City, in the hinterland of Xiamen, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in the Golden Triangle of southern Fujian. Anhai town ancient name of the bay sea, during the Northern Song Dynasty Kaibao period, Tang Dynasty minister An Jinzang descendant An Lianji lived here, easy "bay" for "An", the original name "An Hai".
As an ancient town stamp, landmark buildings are generally selected, and the more famous buildings in Anhai Town are Shijing Academy and Longshan Temple, which can show the appearance of the ancient town. It also shows the characteristics of Minnan architecture.
▲ PP50 "Anping Bridge" ordinary postage film postage map
Of course, the most famous building in the town is also the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in New China, the longest beam stone bridge in the world in the Middle Ages, the longest existing harbor stone bridge in China, which is a masterpiece of ancient bridge architecture, and the Anping Bridge, which enjoys the reputation of "no bridge in the world". After all, the ancient bridge has been listed as a "World Heritage Site" in 2021 as part of "Quanzhou: The World Maritime Trade Center of Song and Yuan China". Therefore, it is also worth wondering how the stamp content will behave.
Longmen Town, Fuyang, Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Longmen Ancient Town, located on the south bank of the Fuchun River, 52 kilometers southwest of Hangzhou, is a national first-class scenic spot on the "Fuchun River - Xin'an River - Qiandao Lake" tourism line. Yu Dafu praised in the poem "Longmen Mountain Inscription Wall": The Milky Way outside the sky is oblique, and the four mountains and waterfalls are full of frogs. In the Ming Dynasty, I wanted to help Sang go, but I could allow Yan bian to fish and rub.
It is said to be the hometown of Sun Quan of the Three Kingdoms, and the village is famous for its unique Ming and Qing ancient architectural complexes, and is a relatively well-preserved mountain town in the Ming and Qing ancient architectural complexes in the Jiangnan region today. Behind the village, there is Longmen Mountain, with an altitude of 1067 meters, overlapping peaks and mountains, and a thousand meteorological conditions, which is the crown of the Fuyang mountains. Yan Ziling, a famous scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty, once visited the Dragon Gate, looked at the mountain unusually, and admired: "The mountains and rivers here are beautiful, like the Luliang Dragon Gate", and the ancient town was also named after it.
▲ 1992-9 "Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Literature - <三国演义>" (3) Stamps (4-2) Zhi Ji Sun Quan
The ancient town building is centered on two Sun ancestral halls, with more than 40 Sun halls, 3 brick arches and 1 ancient pagoda and 1 temple. It is not clear whether there will be a manifestation of the elements of the Three Kingdoms this time?
Yaoli Town, Fuliang County, Jiangxi
Yaoli Ancient Town is located in the eastern part of Fuliang County, Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province, at the junction of Qimen, Xiuning, Wuyuan and Fuliang counties. The ancient name "Kiln", because it is the birthplace of Jingdezhen ceramics, as far back as the middle of the Tang Dynasty, there are handicraft workshops that produce ceramics here. Located in the center of the three world cultural heritage sites (Huangshan, Lushan, Xidi and Hongcun), it is known as the "source of porcelain, the hometown of tea, and the sea of forests". The Yao River runs through the town, and hundreds of ancient buildings of the Ming and Qing Hui sect are scattered on both sides of the Yao River by the mountains and rivers, with flying cornices and angles, and pink walls, hidden in the green mountains and green waters, as if in a beautiful landscape painting.
The Yao River runs through the town, and hundreds of ancient buildings of the Ming and Qing Hui sect are scattered on both sides of the Yao River by the mountains and rivers, with flying cornices and angles, and pink walls, hidden in the green mountains and green waters, as if in a beautiful landscape painting.
▲ T166 "Jingdezhen Porcelain" stamps
Yaoli Town is quite closely related to Chinese ceramics, not only because the name contains the famous "Fuliang Porcelain Bureau", but also because of the unique formula of Chinese porcelain, kaolin, which is produced here.
Nanyang Town, Weishan County, Shandong Province
Nanyang Town, belonging to Weishan County, Jining City, Shandong Province, the ancient canal passes through the town, Kangxi and Qianlong once rested in the town when they went down to jiangnan, leaving the Kangxi Imperial Banquet Room, the Emperor's Residence and other monuments.
Nanyang Ancient Town is located because the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal passes through the lake, and it is on this narrow lake that the river forms a Nanyang Ancient Town, one of the four famous towns of the canal. At that time, there was a saying that "there is no sun on a sunny day, and no water leaks on a rainy day", which once attracted and gathered merchants and famous people from all over the country at that time, creating its unprecedented prosperity, and Kangqian also passed through here many times to the south, and left many historical sites.
▲2009-23 "Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal" stamp (6-3) Shanshan Guild Hall
With the turmoil in the late Qing Dynasty, all the prosperity returned to calm. However, with the successful application for the "Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal" and the completion of the "South-to-North Water Diversion Project", everything is full of vitality.
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