China Post is scheduled to issue a set of 3 special stamps on April 18, 2024 of "World Natural Heritage - Chengjiang Fossil Land", the stamp design name is "Chinese Micronet Worm Fossil", "Symbiotic Fossil of Ringed Worm and Sucker Ancient Worm" and "Yanchang Fuxian Lake Insect Fossil", with a face value of 3.60 yuan and a planned issuance of 5.88 million sets.
This set of stamps is designed by Wang Yuheng and Yuan Yishan, and strives to be clean and pure in design, highlighting the hand-painted feeling with colored pencils, and superimposing a schematic diagram of Fuxian Lake and Maotianshan Mountain in the face design. The attached ticket not only shows the artistic restoration map corresponding to the three fossils, but also shows the overall appearance of the underwater paleontological community of the Chengjiang biota, vividly reproducing the magnificent landscape and diversity of marine life about 520 million years ago.
It is worth mentioning that the stamps are printed with high-precision offset plates, and the use of special pearlescent and metallic inks adds to the glossy effect of the picture. Three-dimensional convex process highlights the main body of the stamp, increase the three-dimensional sense of the stamp, under the ultraviolet lamp, the location diagram is presented in the stamp, the 37 paleontology in the attached drawing adopts full true color printing, observed under the ultraviolet lamp, showing a colorful luminous effect, and the fluorescence effect reflected by the underwater paleontology after the bright sunlight is compatible, and the stamp is also designed with a variety of anti-counterfeiting processes such as microtext and special-shaped perforations.
This set of stamps will be sold at designated postal outlets, philatelic network halls, China Post mobile app, China Post Micro Post WeChat Mall and China Post Mall WeChat Mini Program for a period of 6 months. At the same time, in order to show the content of the stamps more abundantly, China Post will release digital content through the "China Philatelic Stamp Encyclopedia" WeChat mini-program, which can be viewed using the AR function.
Further reading:
Since the discovery of the first fossil of the long-tailed Naro worm in July 1984, more than 20 phyla and more than 300 species of Cambrian rare animal fossils have been discovered and reported in the Chengjiang Fossil Field, and the ancestors of almost all living animal phyla can be found here. The Chengjiang fossil field accurately records the historical facts of the "explosion of life in the early Cambrian period", which is the best example of this important event. At the same time, the Chengjiang fossils have significant species diversity characteristics, showing the complete marine community and ecosystem of the early Cambrian, which is the best window to understand the structure of the biological community in this period. In July 2012, at the 36th session of the World Heritage Committee, the Chengjiang fossil site was inscribed on the World Heritage List, and is still the only fossil World Heritage Site in Asia to be included in the list.
Reporter: Xiaoguang
Editor: Xu Linmin
Editor-in-charge: Yang Qingqing
Review: Kwong AirAsia
Final review: Cao Qinyong