<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > Liu Jiji half a century</h1>
Original: Water patch
Pictured: General Hu Wei
There are additions, deletions and modifications to the text issued here
Liu Jijie (1918-1983) is a famous Chinese painter and a master of comic strip painting, especially with his heavy color paintings and animal flowers and birds. Mr. Liu's works are widely loved by the general public and are also valued by the post and telecommunications department, so they formed a postal relationship. This fate has been continuous for thirty years before death, and it will continue to fade in the twenty years after death.
One
In the 1950s, Mr. Liu completed almost all of his most important comic strip works, and a middle-aged man in his thirties and forties became famous just as he was young and powerful. For example, "Chicken Feather Letter", "Mr. Dongguo", "WuSong Fighting Tiger", "Haunting Heavenly Palace", "Water Curtain Cave" have all been published, "Poor Stick Twist qiankun" has been twice a draft, and "Muscle Fighting Cloud" and "Chaoyanggou" have no suspense.
On July 7, 1952, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the "July 7" incident, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued a set of 4 commemorative stamps for the 16th anniversary of the 16th Anniversary of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The third of them is "Farewell to the New Fourth Army Against Japan" according to Shao Yu. Liu Jijian cooperated in the production of the original oil painting "Farewell to the New Fourth Army Against Japan". This stamp is also the first stamp made based on a painting by Mr. Liu Jiji (added by General Hu Wei)
Ki 16 "Commemoration of the 15th Anniversary of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression" a set of 4 pieces
"Farewell to the New Fourth Army To The North to Resist Japan"
The original painting of "Farewell to the New Fourth Army to The North to Resist Japan"
Mr. Liu's work unit, the People's Fine Arts Publishing House, took the lead in launching a philatelic derivative product for him, that is, a set of 10 postcards in 1956, "Wusong Fighting Tiger".
"Wu Song Fights the Tiger" is a set of 10 postcards from 1956
From 1956 to 1965, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications successively issued the first set of 11 ordinary postage envelopes PF1 (Pujiu Tiananmen Postage, known to philatelic collectors as "Pujiu Postage Covers"), of which the number 4-1957 was also used in the 14th volume of "Wusong Fighting Tiger".
Pu 9 fine art postage cover 4-1957 group painting 7
In 1957, the People's Sports Publishing House launched a set of 12 "Sports Postcards (Fine Art Works)", one of which was Mr. Liu's Chinese painting "Dancing Sword".
Sword Dance, 1957
In 1959, his Chinese paintings "Peach Blossom Pony", "Rabbit" and "Double Rabbit" were made into New Year greeting cards by the People's Fine Arts Publishing House and Rong Baozhai respectively.
Peach blossom ponies, rabbits, double rabbits
Two
In the special era of the 1960s and 1970s, Mr. Liu's works were pitifully rare.
His postage, this time only at two ends, namely 2 sets of 6 animal painting special stamps.
First, in 1963, Sun Chuanzhe designed a set of 3 sets of 3 special 60 "Golden Snub-nosed Monkeys" (with or without teeth);
The first day cover of "Golden Snub-nosed Monkey"
The Golden Snub-nosed Monkey is toothless
The second is that in 1979, Liu Shuoren designed a set of 3 T40 "Siberian Tigers" (Iwatani Echo, Echoing the Wilderness, And Roaring Grass Mang).
"Siberian Tiger" first day cover
Siberian Tiger stamps
In addition, in 1979, the Liaoning Provincial Post and Telecommunications Administration issued an annual calendar painting, which selected Mr. Liu's Chinese painting "Tiger".
Three
In the 1980s, the chaos was rectified and the waste was revived. In the last few years of his life, Mr. Liu, as Fan Zeng's eulogy poem said: "The former dust cannot remember his tears, and the sunset will eventually return to the evening."
In 1980, the "Selection of the Best Stamps in the Thirty Years of the Founding of the People's Republic of China (1949-1979)" organized by the All-China Philatelic Federation was announced, and a total of 14 sets of commemorative stamps, 14 sets of special stamps, 2 sets of ordinary stamps, and 4 sets of best stamps specially awarded by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications were awarded. Among the 14 sets of award-winning special stamps, the special 60 "Golden Snub-nosed Monkey" and the T40 "Northeast Tiger" originally painted by Mr. Liu were all on the list (Note: It was misreported that it was selected as the best stamp in 1980, in fact, it was the first time that the annual good post selection was held, and the winners were J58 "Ancient Chinese Scientists (Group 3)" and T44 "Selected Works of Qi Baishi").
"Golden Snub-nosed Monkey" original painting 1
"Golden Monkey" original painting 2
"Golden Snub-nosed Monkey" original painting 3
At this time, the United States First Day Cover Company selected three sets of Chinese special stamps ("The Great Wall", "Camellia", "Siberian Tiger"), entrusted Chinese artists to design the first day cover, printed and issued worldwide. Mr. Liu also drew a separate tiger painting and design pattern, forming a set of 3 "Siberian Tiger Stamps First Day Cover", which was published on the back cover of the 1980-2 issue of Philatelic Magazine.
One of the "Siberian Tiger Stamp First Day Covers"
"The First Day Cover of the Siberian Tiger" No. 2
The third day of the First Day Cover of the Siberian Tiger
Mr. Liu was simple and rare, and at this time he also wrote an article entitled "Emphasis on the Artistic Conception - Talking about the Creative Experience of "Golden Snub-nosed Monkey" and "Northeast Tiger"", which was published in the 1980-5 issue of Philatelic Magazine.
In 1980, the Fifth Printing Factory of Shenyang City issued a set of 2 art envelopes, one of which was the Chinese painting "Rooster", which was written by Mr. Liu.
Liu Jiji's "Rooster" envelope
There is also a set of 9 art envelopes for "Lady" with an unknown publisher.
In 1982, China launched the first zodiac special stamp (T46 Gengshen Monkey Stamp), the Beijing Municipal Post Bureau issued a limit postcard for this purpose, in view of Liu Jijie's famous painting of monkeys, the pattern selected one of his "Golden Monkeys", which complemented Huang Yongyu's "Golden Monkey".
Postcard of Gengshennian's "Golden Monkey"
In 1983, Mr. Liu's Chinese painting "Double Pig Diagram" was selected as the best stamp selection activity of the year and the commemorative sheet of the award ceremony (Note: The selection of good postal products in previous years is issued. Among them, the Year of the Pig in 1983 has the most varieties, including selection, selection, awarding, English 4 kinds of commemorative sheets and registered real envelopes; in 1985, China Philatelic Publishing House was established, and the North American Distribution Office of China Philatelic and the Japan Postal Fun Association were congratulated and specially printed in English and Japanese).
"Double Pig Diagram"
In 1985, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued a set of 5 New Year postage postcards HP5 to wish the Year of the Tiger in 1986. The original paintings selected were Liu Jijie's "Furious Vision", Liu Kuiling's "Lying Cliff", Hu Shuang'an's "Down the Mountain", He Xiangning's "Howling", and Zhang Shanzi's "Double Tiger". The tiger paintings of Liu's father and son were selected for the national philatelic products together. (The names of the original paintings in these five places have been modified)
HP5 postcard
In 1986, People's China magazine published a set of 10 postcards, Chinese Painting 1, which included another of Mr. Liu's tiger paintings.
RongBaozhai published 2 sets of 10 postcards each:
The first is the 1988 "Selected Animal Paintings of Liu Jijie"
The second is the 1989 "Liu Jijian Painting Horse Selection".
Four
In the 1990s-2000s, Mr. Liu died of illness for more than 20 years, and instead of forgetting him, there was a trend of increasing influence, and the Chinese and foreign postal circles continued to be related.
In 1991 (the twelfth) National Best Stamp Selection Activity, the People's Post and Telecommunications Publishing House selected Mr. Liu's Chinese painting "Fat Sheep Diagram" as a commemorative sheet.
Fat Sheep Diagram
On May 5 of the following year, the award ceremony was held at the Beijing International Club; on May 9, the philatelic literary and art special evening was launched for the first time in the CCTV Variety Show, and the Office of the Jiayou Selection Committee also printed a "12th National Best Stamp Selection - Commemorative Cover for the Broadcast of the Variety Show" for this purpose, and the pattern was still "Fat Sheep Diagram". This is the last of the first round of good stamp selection in New China, and in 1992 it was collected into a small edition of the "Commemorative Sheet of the National Best Stamp Selection Activity".
The 12th National Best Stamp Selection - "Variety Show" Program Broadcast Commemorative Cover
Commemorative Sheet for the National Best Stamp Selection Event, 1992
In 1991, the Olympic Publishing House launched a set of paintings + stamps of the Zodiac wall calendar: In January Liu Jiji painted the monkey, in February Xu Beihong painted a chicken, in March Liu Kui painted a dog, in April Liu Jiji drew a pig, in May Liu Jiji painted a mouse, in June Liu Jiji painted a cow, in July Liu Jiji painted a tiger, in August Liu Jiji painted a rabbit, in September Liu Zhong Tianlong, in October Xu Beihong painted a lion; in November Xu Beihong painted a horse; in December Fan Zeng painted a sheep. (Five kinds of Liu Jijian; one kind of Liu Jijie's daughter Liu Kui, one kind of Qi Baishi, three kinds of Xu Beihong, one kind of Liu Zhongtian, and one kind of Fan Zeng) (Edited and arranged by General Hu Wei)
Painting + stamp zodiac calendar
The 1999 stamp is scheduled to be commemorated, using Mr. Liu Jiji's Chinese painting "Rabbit Figure" (added by General Hu Wei)
Liu Jiji's Painting "Rabbit"
In 2002, Hebei Education Publishing House launched the third series of "Appreciation of Chinese Famous Paintings" postcard, which included a set of 23 "Liu Jijie".
"Appreciation of Chinese Famous Paintings" Postcard Series III
In 2004, the Shandong Provincial Post Office launched the sixth set of Spring Festival series of 17 commemorative postmarks, designed by Ren Huaiping and provided at 17 local and central bureau counters. Among them, the Jiashen monkey figure of Liaocheng Poke is selected from the "Manuscript of Liu Jiji's Animal Drawing" published by Tianjin Yangliuqing Painting Society in 1987.
In 2007, a commemorative cover was issued at the Shanghai Large-scale Comic Book Collection Exhibition and Exchange Conference, and its pattern was selected from the cover of "Chicken Feather Letter".
After the branching of postal and telecommunications, especially in the 21st century, stamps, envelopes, and postcards have decreased, and the number of telephone cards and IC cards has increased. Mr. Liu's two masterpieces are still selected as telephone card drawings many times: in 2004, China Netcom Henan Communications Calling Card 1 set of 8 "Water Margin Heroes - Wusong Fighting Tigers"; China Netcom Henan Luoyang Telephone Card 1 set of 8 "Wusong Fighting Tigers" (Road meets the restaurant, three bowls but not post, broad stride Jingyang Gang, the road meets the white-fronted big worm, the brave fighting eye worm, the stick-wielding big worm, the punching tiger dies, the tiger is a good Han mei biography). In 2005, China Telecom Hubei Shiyan telephone card 1 set of 8 "Wusong Dahu" (You Bo "Year-end Discussion Card - 2005 Shiyan Telecom 201 Telephone Card Review": SY-T issued a total of 5 sets of 26 pieces throughout the year, 12 Zodiac Signs 12, Qi Baishi works 3, Qing porcelain 3, 36 counts 36 of 4, NongWu Nian 4 Xu Beihong Galloping Horse, and did not have this set); China Unicom CUHT-TZ12 telephone card 1 set of 8 pieces of "Haunting Heavenly Palace"; China Tietong Nanning Telephone Card 1 set of 6 "Haunting Heavenly Palace". In 2006, China Netcom Xinjiang telephone card set 1 set of 4 "Big Trouble Heavenly Palace". There are also 1 set of 6 sets of China Telecom Chongqing calling cards "Wusong Fighting Tigers"; 1 set of 6 China Netcom telephone cards "Noisy Heavenly Palace"; 1 set of 160 "Masterpieces of Painting Masters" of the Macao Telecom Telephone Card, 1 set of 8 puzzles "Haunting Heavenly Palace" (Xian Jiu Party); Shanghai Yizhong Network Co., Ltd. Internet Card 1 set of 12 puzzle types "Noisy Heavenly Palace" (Dou Na Zha).
After the opening up to the outside world, Mr. Liu's works have become more popular and have been stamped on some smaller countries and regions. At present, it is understood that there are 15 kinds of philatelic products from 8 countries: (For details of foreign stamp plates, please refer to General Hu Wei's "Famous Paintings in Stamps" - Selected Stamp Works of Liu Jiji)
First, Togo, in 1998, issued a set of 4 stamps and a small sheet of 1 set of 2 stamps in the "Selected Works of Liu Jijie (Tiger Paintings)".
The second is Cuba, which issued a stamp of "Tiger" in 1998;
The third is Liberia, which issued a set of 4 stamps, a small full sheet and a small sheet in 1999 of "Selected Paintings of Liu Jiji's Rabbit"; in 2007, it issued a set of 1 stamp and a small full sheet of "Liu Jiji's Mother and Child Pig".
The fourth is Antigua and Barbuda, which issued 1 set of 1 small plate of "Selected Paintings of Liu Jiji sheep" in 2003; in 2014, it issued a small full sheet of the Chinese zodiac sign of the Horse and a small piece of "Liu Jiji's Horse Painting (Selected)" (added by General Hu Wei);
Fifth, Micronesia, in 2006 issued "Liu Jiji Paints a Dog" a set of 1 stamp, 1 small plate, 1 small sheet; in 2007, "Liu Jiji painted a pig" issued a set of 1 stamp, 1 small full sheet.
Sixth, Grenadian Little Martinique, issued in January 2007 "Wild Boar Map" a set of 1 stamp and a small sheet (added by General Huwei).
Seventh, Antigua published a set of four small pieces of "Qi Tian Dasheng" in 2010 (added by General Hu Wei)
In 2016, the Republic of Eight Ghana published a set of 3 small sheets of the "Year of the Monkey", which is doubtful because the stamps do not have face value. (Added by General Huwei)
In addition, in 2009, the State Philatelic Publishing Corporation launched China's first set of Chinese New Year theme axis silk personalized stamps "Tiggo Rare Mail", and the 3 main pictures were selected as T40 "Siberian Tiger";
《Tiggo Rare Post》
China Gold Coin Group Corporation and China Philatelic Association jointly issued a large set of "Famous Zodiac Signs - Gold inlaid Jade Commemorative Coin Stamp Gold Scroll Collection", one of the 12 main pictures is Mr. Liu's "Rabbit".
Five
In the art world, Mr. Liu Jiji is praised by art critics as "Contemporary Wu Daozi (Painting Saint)" and "Rembrandt and Migay Langelo of the East". Gai Coffin was declared an outstanding Chinese painter. Before his death, Liu Jijian claimed to be a people's art worker. He did not abandon grassroots in his life and should be called a "people's artist". Therefore, his works have always been favored by the majority of the people, and they are not obscured because of the shortness of his life.