Business card, is a relatively concise, fast carrier in social interaction, like the "introduction letter", it makes the other party aware of the name, mailing address, postal code, telephone number, some also have a position, and now there is an electronic mailbox, etc., easy to store, when necessary, take out the business card can contact each other. Sometimes flipping through business cards can also make you relive the scene when you first met, leaving a warmth.
The business card also confirms the changes of the times. In the years after liberation, the use of business cards in some industries was generally rare, and then with the continuous "rise and fall of capital" and "fighting for private criticism", the "individualistic" color of business cards was difficult to tolerate in society, so it gradually disappeared, and by the "Cultural Revolution" period, it basically disappeared. After the reform and opening up, due to political clarity, economic development, cultural prosperity, and social pluralism and symbiosis, the exchange of business cards has become a common phenomenon in many occasions, and without business cards, sometimes it is not so convenient.
Because some people use business cards to carry out fraudulent activities, business cards have been ridiculed as "obvious deception" and ruined the "name" of business cards. And because many years ago, in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala program, two old classmates played by Hou Yaowen and Huang Hong met at the station and used business cards as playing cards than the size of the sketch, invisibly those business cards became the object of "jokes". However, these have nothing to do with my collection of business cards.
A few years ago, I went to Japan to visit relatives and found that Japan still calls business cards "famous thorns", indeed, business cards are also called famous thorns, and sometimes also called famous posts. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the official court paid homage to the emperor and wrote his title on red paper, called "famous poster". I have a historical celebrity Sheng Xuanhuai, this business card is 25 cm long, 10.3 cm wide, relatively dark pink, and there is a cinnabar seal on the back of the business card, engraved with "Sincere prayer, not for other purposes." Some of my relatives and friends told me that Sheng Xuanhuai's business card was also exhibited at the Memorial Hall of the First Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai. This business card became my cherish. Speaking of which, I have to thank Mr. Zhang Bang'an, who helped me find it by matchmaking. I still remember that story before and after!
The incentive to germinate a business card collection is purely accidental. Zhao Jingshen, a famous Chinese writer, opera historian and professor of the Department of Chinese of Fudan University, kept 76 business cards before his death. After his son Zhao Yilin introduced my articles from the Xinmin Evening News that I had collecting interests and hobbies, he took the initiative to write to ask me if I was willing to accept gifts for these business cards, and listed 76 honorable names one by one in the letter, such as Tian Han, Qian Zhongshu, Yang Dai, Gao Jilin (Ke Ling), Tang Tao, Wang Renshu (Ba Ren), Yu Zhenfei, Chen Baichen, Shi Jingcun, Qian Junzao... Because I am a lover of literature and history, I am full of admiration for these masters and true masters of China's literary circles, so I wrote back and said "all to", and when Mr. Zhao Yilin registered and mailed it to me, I was really overjoyed. Later, I copied, copied, or cut and pasted their materials from various books, newspapers, and magazines, and there were hundreds of copies. These business cards later became the treasures of my business card collection.
Stepping onto the road of business card collection was in 1992, the Shanghai Art Museum exhibited a print collection, a box of dozens of business cards, was broadcast by the Shanghai TELEVISION station in the news of the day frozen for several seconds, at this moment, I suddenly woke up: business cards attracted the attention of reporters, I should collect business cards. Later, the "Lovely Motherland - Chinese Tourism Culture Collection Exhibition" was held at the Lu Xun Memorial Hall in Shanghai to participate in the exhibition for business cards, and Mr. Zhu Guoxiang provided me with many conveniences, so that I could find some business cards from the cultural and tourism circles and tourism industry through various channels. From the literary and artistic circles, the cultural and cultural circles to the sports circles, the education circles, and the collection circles, the collection field of business cards has gradually expanded and begun to take shape.
Business cards, a little different from other collectibles, its limitations are very obvious. Because many collections have commodity characteristics, such as mail, coins, cards, etc., or can be purchased and exchanged in shops, markets or salons, and there are many collectors. Business cards, on the other hand, are generally given away in specific occasions, so the collection channels are very narrow. However, as long as you are attentive and rely on the care of relatives, friends and colleagues, the "quantity" and "quality" of the business card collection will continue to expand and improve, and what is needed is patience and time.
Sometimes I will receive some business cards that have little to do with my "internal determination", such as the director of a briquette factory, the manager of the commissary, etc. Over time, I discovered that some of them are rare surnames, such as Dan, But, Shan, Sheng, Fire... Some of them are outside of our common "hundred family names", so I opened up a "thousand family names" column. This is the mining and development of business card resources. There is also a stack of newspaper and periodical printing factory directors, workshop directors, media editors, reporters of the business cards, these business cards have a characteristic is that the registration, station name, publication name is inscribed by some leaders or celebrities, I will arrange into miniature calligraphy works exhibition, unique interest. In addition, some business cards have caricatures, or photos, or seals, etc.; horizontal, vertical or fan-shaped or maple leaf-shaped; large, small; and more colorful. The texture is generally paper, but there are also plastic, metal... Anyway, there are a lot of heads to watch.
In the process of collecting business cards, there are many anecdotes, some of the business cards behind the acquisition of a real and moving story, some make me sigh, some full of strong friendship, some worth playing, for these ins and outs, I have accumulated some materials, such as whim, but also need to write a few "business card stories".
How to display business cards, so that they have both educational connotations and ornamental value, once made me embarrassed, such as in the business card box, like a deck of playing cards; placed in the business card book, it is like a catalog book, will not arouse the interest of the viewer, but also can not show the function of business card collection. Now I use a large pressure-sensitive photo album, stored separately according to different categories, the surrounding of the business card is accompanied by its relevant information, or photos or pictures or text, this kind of graphics and text are like a hardcover pictorial, so that the owner of the business card has a more comprehensive introduction, so that ornamental and intellectual. Many friends appreciate my "idea". However, this also brings problems, it is very difficult to visit the exhibition, it is very difficult to change to the frame, and the display in the display cabinet can only see one or two pages, so now I generally do not participate in various exhibitions.
Periodicals sometimes have business card information articles, and whatever I can collect is kept as a "file" as much as possible. There are several people in other places who have run "business card newspapers", and I also attach great importance to them, because business cards are indeed a science, especially some "everyone" business cards with high moral standing and achievements, they are my models for study.
Many years ago, Shanghai Oriental Radio, Shandong Satellite TV, Hongkou Cable TV and other special reports or filming feature films, "Folk Collection", "Hongkou News", "Shanghai Collection", "GreatEr China Collection", "Hongkou Culture", "People's Collection" and other articles introduced my business card collection. These are things of the past. Now my interest is greatly reduced, unlike in the past, for the collection of business cards, I can brave the cold and heat, even if it is windy and rainy, I will run around regardless of fatigue. If you get a business card, it is like the joy of getting the most precious treasure, and now, everything is casual, you can receive it, you are happy, and if you can't receive it, you can face it calmly, very calm. As for the way out of my business card collection, how will it end? Sons and daughters are unsympathetic, and they are dismissive. It's just that a stupid nephew once said, "Uncle, those business cards you collect, I want", I think, this nephew is not stupid at all! Because the business cards that I have collected and hidden are not obvious deceptions.
Source: Putuo Collection