Interpretation of China Post Logo

The special colors of postal services all over the world are determined according to their own traditions and habits. For example, Britain uses red and America uses gray. Green clothes worn by Chinese messengers; The postal cars running all over the street are green, and even the bicycles that the messengers ride are green.

However, in ancient China, postal signs were mainly red. The purpose is to let passers-by see the postman flying horse far away so as to make way quickly.

By 1905, the Frenchman Boli, who was then the director of the General Post Office, proposed that yellow and green should be used as special postal colors and green should be used as the main primary color in postal affairs. This provision has been used since the late Qing Dynasty. After the founding of New China, the issue of postal special color was discussed at the first national postal conference in 1949 and 65438+February. The result of the discussion is that green symbolizes peace, youth and prosperity, so it is decided that people's postal services should adopt green as a special color.