The significance and development trend of philately

The following is the meaning and development trend of stamp collecting that I have compiled for you. I hope it can help you.

1. The meaning and purpose of stamp collecting

1. Stamp collecting is a beneficial mass cultural activity and a noble entertainment suitable for all ages and both refined and popular.

Philately may seem plain, but in fact it is mysterious. It has a broad mass base and plays an important role in the current construction of socialist spiritual civilization. Stamp collecting activities have its own characteristics and are not restricted by gender, age, or nationality. Since the 1980s, stamp collecting activities have been booming not only in China but also abroad. It is beyond the reach of other cultural art collections.

Stamp collecting activities are both elegant and popular. Everyone from famous scholars to children can participate. The familiar Gorky, Darwin, Pavlov, Shaw and President Roosevelt of the United States all collect stamps. China’s Lu Xun, Ba Jin, Xia Yan, Liu Haisu, Qian Weichang, Zhou Weizhi and other famous figures collected stamps.

Since the 1980s in our country, especially in the 1990s, stamp collecting activities have been surging across the country. In order to buy zodiac stamps, Hong Kong and Macao reunification stamps and souvenir sheets, many postmen, some teenagers, and even gray-haired old people queued up all night long and never tired of it. This was both patriotic and posthumous fun.

Thousands of people in the world now collect stamps. Nearly a quarter of people in the United States collect stamps. There are more than 300 postal magazines alone. Among them, the "Times Post" published in Boston has sold nearly 3 million There are more than 1,400 philatelic groups in the United States, and the American Philatelic Association has more than 2 million members. They also attract philatelic friends from other countries to join the association. I was fortunate to join the association in June 1988.

2. Collecting stamps can enhance patriotism and love one's motherland even more

The stamps issued by a country are a mirror of the country, and the stamps are the country's business card. The stamps issued by our country are witnesses of history and records of the times. Over the years, our country's stamps have reflected our country's great achievements over the past 60 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Since the reform and opening up, our country has been prosperous and prosperous, and its industry and agriculture are thriving, with an annual growth rate of 8.6. It has joined the WTO and is in line with international standards. In 2008, it was held in Beijing The Olympic Games, the World Expo held in Shanghai in 2010, the successful return of Yang Liwei's manned space flight, the successful completion of the Three Gorges Project, transportation in all directions, civil aviation throughout the country, the speed of railways several times, Changsha & mdash; & mdash; Beijing is approaching in the morning and evening, and there is a Stand non-stop. Another example is that Changsha has undergone tremendous changes in recent years, with tall buildings and five bridges spanning the Xiangjiang River. my country's international prestige has improved and it plays a decisive role in the world. Many great achievements can be seen on stamps, such as:

① Reflecting the greatness of our party, there are stamps issued to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the party, the 40th anniversary of the founding of the party, the 50th, 60th, and 70th anniversary stamps. , stamps commemorating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Party.

②Reflecting the founding of the People's Republic of China, there are commemorative stamps for the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and commemorative stamps for the 15th, 30th, 40th, 50th and 60th anniversaries.

③ There are many stamps that reflect the victory of the Chinese revolution, such as Jinggangshan, the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Long March, the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and the return of the volunteers.

④ Reflecting the joy of the people, there are the victory of the Tibetan people, stamps of reform and opening up, the construction of special zones, ethnic songs and dances, Asian Games stamps, and Olympic stamps. Another example is that table tennis won seven consecutive championships and the Chinese women's volleyball team won five consecutive championships. The poet Haibo of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem praising the women's volleyball team, “ to this day, the spring thunder on both sides of the Taiwan Strait is still like the sound of Lang Ping's smash. How vivid and vivid it is, which greatly increases the ambition of the Chinese people.

From the issuance, collection, and exhibition of these stamps, we inspire our love for the motherland, as evidenced by poetry.

The joy of philately is endless. It can not only promote civilization, but also make friends and travel.

Every postage mark is a national business card; reform and opening up, prosperity; loving the motherland, enriching life; learning from each other's strengths and observing each other; far and wide, the postal friendship is deep. Beautiful! Stamp collecting.

3. Stamp collecting can increase knowledge and expand our horizons.

A stamp album is an extracurricular reading and an image encyclopedia. It is an ocean of knowledge, a garden of science, a textbook of history, and a gem of art. Collecting stamps appropriately can increase your knowledge. With knowledge, you can learn many things that cannot be learned in the classroom.

As early as more than a hundred years ago, geography teachers in some European schools asked students to put stamps on maps to increase everyone's interest in learning geography. There are many stamps that reflect the scenery of the motherland, such as the Great Wall, Huangshan scenery, Guilin landscape, Suzhou gardens, capital attractions, four famous buildings, Master of the Nets Garden, Jiuzhaigou Valley, Taishan, Huashan, Hengshan, Emeishan, Jiuhuashan, and Wutai Mountain, etc.; as well as the scenery of Taiwan, the waves of Sun Moon Lake, the pines of Alishan, the wind and clouds of Chikan Tower, and the tsunami of Penghu Island. These have enhanced our understanding of Taiwan, the territory of our motherland.

Collecting stamps can also enhance our understanding of the history of our motherland, and there are more stamps in this regard. For example, the ancient Chinese scientist Zhang Heng astronomer invented the seismometer. Mathematician Zu Chongzhi discovered pi 3.1416 pi, and now the Japanese count it to 8,679,472. Pharmacologist Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica. There are also ancient writers Du Fu, Li Bai, Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Tao Yuanming, Cao Zhi, etc. There are also many foreign scientists on our country's stamps, such as Einstein, Marie Curie, Copernicus, Galileo, Robert, etc.

There are many famous figures, so I won’t list them all. I will only give one example. We went to Shaoshan on December 26, 2004, and were honored to be invited to attend the luncheon celebrating the 110th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth held by the Shaoshan Municipal Government. We met Sun Linhou, a 38-year-old philatelic fan who collects Mao Zedong stamps and Shaoshan philatelic products. He loves Mao Zedong and has come to Shaoshan at his own expense since 1993, the 100th anniversary of Mao Zedong's birth. Year after year, he has gone to every village and home of fellow villagers in Shaoshan, taking photos, videos, and printing postcards. He wants to publish a book "Shaoshan Scenery and Great People" "Love" Extreme Postcard Collection, he said that until the book was published, he would not care about it or shave his beard, which shows how deeply he loves stamps and Shaoshan. We were also fortunate to see the two children who took a photo with Chairman Mao in 1959 and stood next to him. The boy was Jiang Hanyu and the girl was Peng Shuqing. They loved Mao Zedong very much and had collected many stamps and stamps in commemoration of Mao Zedong. The stamp products were collected and an exhibition was held, which toured various places and was very popular among stamp fans.

4. Stamp collection can promote the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and cultivate sentiment

A model for people across the country to learn from—— Comrade Zheng Peimin also likes to collect stamps, but he never public. In January 1998, he braved the severe cold and came to my home. He saw my collection of "Gladable Unity" stamp albums and the "Jiazi Postal Journal" I founded. He happily wrote an inscription for me: “The stamps reflect the progress of the motherland. At the same time, stamp collecting promotes the construction of spiritual civilization. Comrade Zheng Peimin's inscription highly summarizes the connotation of philatelic culture. The popularization and promotion of philatelic culture will definitely be conducive to the construction of spiritual civilization across the country. The All-China Philatelic Federation requires us to establish 500 philatelist homes and 200 youth philatelic demonstration bases. We I hope you can build a stamp collector’s home and become a paradise for stamp collectors.

5. Collecting stamps can enhance friendship and promote communication

amp;ldquo;Our friends are all over the world”,“It is a great pleasure to have friends from far away amp;rdquo;. Because stamp collecting cannot be done behind closed doors, you must go out of your home, find friends to visit, communicate with each other, and check the validity period with each other, in order to increase your stamp awareness and increase your interest in stamp collecting. Everyone knows this.

Many comrades have joined philatelic associations, and some have also joined philatelic associations in various industries. For example, our Hunan Water Conservancy System Philatelic Association is a group member of the Hunan Provincial Postal Association. With the care and support of the Party Committee of the Water Resources Department, we have made great achievements. Achievements, such as special philatelic associations, can form various special philatelic associations according to the interests and hobbies of stamp enthusiasts. For example, the Hunan Zodiac Philatelic Association has been established for more than ten years, and its membership has grown rapidly because zodiac culture is both traditional Chinese culture and close to people's lives, and everyone is related to the zodiac. Now the Chinese zodiac has gone global, and many countries have issued zodiac stamps. Mr. Ren Lianrong, the president of the Hunan Zodiac Association, is very knowledgeable in this regard. He is the authority on the Chinese zodiac and has many zodiac stamps. On January 5, 2004, the third round of monkey ticket issuance was held in Suzhou. The monkey III is colorful, bright and generous, and is very popular. It also promotes exchanges among postal friends. In terms of philately, I formed the "Gladable Unification" stamp album, which combined the same stamps from both sides of the Taiwan Strait into one stamp album. Were these identical stamps negotiated in advance? No, this coincides with each other. This is because the descendants of Yan and Huang are the same. One ancestor, the same origin, the same customs and habits. The famous poet Tang Haibo wrote a poem: "A square inch of paper is connected with a square inch of wish, and the people of Kyushu hope that Kyushu will be the same." Because small stamps express love for the motherland, affection for hometown, and hope for relatives, “we are destined to meet each other”, in order to communicate between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and promote exchanges between postal friends on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, I have published There are 1 and 2 volumes of the Correspondence Book of Postal Friends on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, which publish the mailing addresses of more than 1,200 postal friends on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, so that everyone can send letters and communicate well. When we first receive a letter from a Taiwanese postal friend, or when a Taiwanese postal friend receives a letter from a mainland postal friend for the first time, we are extremely excited. amp; ldquo; When we meet and want to ask about the length of our love, I point to you and smile and talk. amp; rdquo; Love, a famous Taiwanese poet, said: “Stamps are the waves kissing both sides of the Taiwan Strait”. We believe that the motherland will eventually be reunified and Taiwan will definitely return to the embrace of the motherland. “The flower letter conveys the feeling of spring, the wind is gentle and the willow leaves are green on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and the Twenty-Four Bridge is full of moonlight. Today, I can see stamp flowers everywhere. ”

In the cultural exchanges between various countries and nations, stamps are the simplest, fastest and most extensive medium. An envelope, with a stamp on it, can fly to the world. Various places have completed the mission of transmitting information. Liu Yi's message is a very famous story. There was a child in Yueyang named Wang Yumeng. He designed stamps and said, "I built a bridge to connect the strait." A primary school student in Changsha wrote a poem: “A beautiful stamp represents the desire of our primary school students, flying, flying, flying to Sun Moon Lake. Children in Taiwan, let us hold hands as soon as possible, sit in rows, and eat fruits. Let us grow up quickly and contribute to the construction of our motherland. amp; rdquo;

6. Stamp collecting is good for the body and mind, and good for health

Young people collecting stamps can not only increase their stamp recognition, but also benefit the growth of teenagers. Some teenagers are obsessed with the Internet. Staying up all night affects learning and is harmful to health, but collecting stamps can give us sustenance and hope. Collecting stamps for the elderly is even more beneficial to the body and mind, because if the elderly do not participate in activities, their decline may be accelerated. Although collecting stamps makes people busy, they have hope in their minds and forget their worries. Happiness is the foundation of longevity, and collecting stamps is the source of happiness. Confucius said: “The wise are happy in water, the benevolent are happy in mountains, the wise are happy, and the benevolent are long-lived. “In a word, it is happier. The more optimistic the mood, the longer the life; the lower the mood, the shorter the life. If you want to live longer, you need to collect stamps. Instead of spending money on health care medicines, it is better to spend money on buying several sets of stamps. Collecting stamps can bring you happiness. If you insist on collecting stamps every day, you will be happy every day. I have been collecting stamps for more than 60 years and I have a deep understanding of this.

For example, if you find a set of stamps in the postal market one day that you have not been able to find for a long time, and suddenly find it, and the price is right, you will be very happy and jump up happily. When you have a set of four stamps in your collection, but you still lack a high-value stamp, and it doesn’t complete the set, and suddenly a postal friend gives you the missing stamp, how happy you would be. It will be a great feeling when the stamp collection you have worked so hard to compile receives a favor or even wins a prize at a stamp exhibition. How happy it will be when you receive a beautiful first-day cover from a mail friend far away. How happy you will be when your stamp collecting experience is published in the newspaper. In short, there are so many things that make you happy about stamp collecting. How can you be unhealthy if you live in joy all day? Diseases cannot invade your healthy body, because happiness builds a rock-solid Great Wall for you, and germs cannot enter your body.

my country’s famous old philatelist Zhang Baozijun died without illness at the age of 94. The famous old philatelist Zhao Shanchang passed away with a smile in his sleep at the age of 87; the famous old philatelist Lei Tongding from Hunan passed away quietly at the age of 92 while compiling stamp collections, etc. They all lived a long life and died so happily, which are the benefits of stamp collecting.

Therefore, we advocate stamp collecting, especially stamp collecting by the elderly. But this is not for the future appreciation of stamps or for getting rich, but for happiness and health. The great poet Tao Yuanming once said in "The Biography of Mr. Wu Liu": "I like reading, but I don't ask for a deep understanding. Whenever I have thoughts, I forget to eat and sleep." This is where I truly realize the benefits. The same should be said for stamp collecting. You can collect stamps hazily or blurry, just like looking at the Li River in the rain or Huangshan Mountain in the fog. As long as stamp collecting makes you happy, you understand the true meaning of stamp collecting!

Stamp collecting can naturally appreciate in value. Although this is not the original intention of stamp collecting, there is no need to avoid it. It is always right to collect stamps. Many newspapers and periodicals have discussed that stamps have a dual nature. Stamps are not only the business card of the country, but also have the value of collection and appreciation. Secondly, stamps are issued in a certain quantity. Unlike other products, stamps can be reproduced after they are used up. Stamps are an orthodox collection. From tradition, people's habits and preferences, no other collection can keep up with stamps. The postal market has highs and lows, ups and downs, which are the natural laws of the market economy. Since the beginning of this year, through the macroeconomic adjustments of the national postal department, the reduction in the number of stamps issued and the control of the primary market and other favorable policies, the postal market is expected to recover. In particular, some old special stamps have been raised by nearly 30 this year. This is all A gratifying phenomenon.

2. The development trend of philately

Everything is changing, and philately is also constantly changing. We cannot stick to the old rules and should change with the changes of the times. In recent years, the stamp market has entered a downturn, and some stamps are even sold below their face value. As a result, some stamp collectors have doubts. Are stamps worth collecting? I think stamp collecting is always right, because stamps are products of the times. Humanity has a long history, but stamps have only been in this world for more than a hundred years. With the rapid development of science and technology, telecommunications have become increasingly popular. People can contact relatives and friends at any time. Who still writes letters? It can be predicted that stamps will have a long history in this world. At most, it's still a few decades old. Decades later, every stamp is extremely valuable. Why would you give up these precious things of the 21st century? Everything has a process of development and demise. Nothing lasts forever, didn’t dinosaurs suddenly disappear? Dinosaur eggs from Xixia, Henan are priceless. Please remember; things that are about to disappear are always precious. The traces of history will always make you nostalgic, the storms of the years will always make you nostalgic, and stamp collecting will always make you happy!

But we cannot collect stamps for the purpose of adding value or collecting stamps for making a fortune. That will make us step into Go astray, go astray. We can determine it based on the current situation and our own working time, energy, and financial resources. It is not necessarily necessary to buy or collect every new set of mail. I think the combination of the four will be the future development trend of philately.

First, combine it with the topic.

That is the currently promoted & ldquo; special stamp collection & rdquo;. Thematic stamp collecting began in the 1970s and became more common in the 1980s. The so-called special stamp collecting is related to an individual's career, expertise, hobbies, and interests, because it is one's expertise or what he is doing. It is more convenient to collect the occupations you are engaged in, and you can get results quickly. The current main topics include aerospace, sports, ball games, science and technology, medicine and health, education, people, animals, flowers, etc. We water conservancy workers can collect stamps related to water conservancy. The topic I collect is "The Gracious Identity". As long as there are stamps with the same theme on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, I collect them. Now I have collected 75 kinds of stamps with the same theme. My "The Gratifying Identity" stamp collection has been used in various places many times. It was exhibited and received good reviews. It won the silver medal at the Second Hunan Philatelic Exhibition. It was later made into a TV series and was broadcast nationwide on CCTV in 1990.

Second, combine with history. The traditional stamp collection method is more common because it requires more time, energy and financial resources. In addition to special stamp collection, it is combined with history, that is, taking historical facts from a certain period of history, because we have collected the Dalong stamps issued in 1878 in the Qing Dynasty. Until now, it is impossible and unrealistic to collect stamps. We can only collect certain fragments. For example, we specialize in collecting stamp collections, covers, and films related to the "Eight Years of War of Resistance Against Japan", or "Resisting U.S. Aggression and Aiding Korea", or ""Ten Years", or It is“the glorious achievements of more than twenty years of reform and opening up”, or“the eighty-year glorious history of the Communist Party of China”or“twenty-five thousand The Long March and so on. There is also the history of postal services across the Taiwan Straits.

In 1989, starting from June 1, cross-strait postal service was carried out. In the past, letters were relayed by the Red Cross. There was a mailbox No. 50,000 in Taipei, and all mail sent to mainland China was All the items are forwarded to this mailbox and sent to Hong Kong, stamped with "Hong Kong details". This seal is now very precious. Collecting covers and films related to historical themes is a current trend. Because these stamps are witnesses of history, precious documents, collections of knowledge, vivid records, and vivid teaching materials.

Third, combine with the situation. In a sense, stamps are also a product of politics. The issuance of stamp content must be subordinate to politics. If reform and opening up were not implemented politically, stamps would not be as wide-ranging, colorful, and dazzling as they are. Therefore, we collect stamps. It must also be combined with the situation, such as the Shenzhou 8 mission, the return of Hong Kong and Macao, the fight against SARS, and now the fight against SARS. There are many postal friends who are interested in stamp collections, covers, sheets, and stamps about SARS. I have a real envelope signed by the director of Xiaotangshan Hospital in Beijing that specializes in treating SARS, and it was sent from Xiaotangshan Hospital. This is relatively rare.

Fourth, the combination of stamps, covers, sheets and stamps. The combination of stamps and seals is like red flowers with green leaves, like small bridges and flowing water, like towers and pavilions. A good stamp album will be boring if it is not combined with covers.

The cover sheet should be at least 1/3 in the stamp album. Because these seals can illustrate the background of the times. For example, the "Wenxi Fire" seal collected by Lei Tongding, a philatelist in Changsha, was stamped on November 12, 1938. This seal was preserved after the Changsha Fire during the Anti-Japanese War, which proves that At that time, the Kuomintang, regardless of the life and death of the people, set fire to the city, leaving a scorched earth.

Another example is the "Hong Kong Details" seal, which is the actual seal of cross-strait exchanges and a precious record. Another example is the signature seal of the women's volleyball team collected by the author. The women's volleyball team was at the training base in Chenzhou, Hunan, and I wrote to coach Yuan Weimin hoping to get a signed envelope from the women's volleyball team. He strongly supported it and immediately asked all the women's volleyball team to sign, including Lang Ping, Liang Yan, Zhang Rongfang... Winning four consecutive championships is the crystallization of blood and sweat, this is the song of victory, this is the flower of life, this is the evergreen tree, and this is the soul of the Chinese nation.

Some covers are less than stamps and are very rare. For example, the marshal envelopes, marshal postcards, general postcards and "Sanxiang Yingjie" series of covers issued by Changsha Stamp Company in 1985 are all very popular and valuable, and are difficult to buy now.

The subject of the sealing film should be good. I wrote an article on October 6, 1985 to introduce the Changsha Stamp Company's "Marshal and General" sealing film. After it was published in the "Liberation Army Daily" From all over the world, many philatelists sent letters asking to buy these covers.

Secondly, one-frame stamp albums and open stamp albums are also the development trend of stamp collecting today. One-frame stamp albums are very popular because they are not affected by so many regulations and are very convenient for beginner stamp collectors.

3. Make your own seals to beautify your life

If you want a wonderful future, stamp collecting can help you. However, the concept of stamp collecting needs to be updated, and the methods of collecting stamps in the past need to be changed. In fact, collecting stamps doesn’t have to cost a lot of money. How many people can afford gold coins and silver coin seals? There is no need to follow the trend, just do what you can according to your own situation and personal hobbies!

If you start collecting stamps from now on, you can start collecting from the following , it won’t cost a lot of money, and you can enjoy yourself without having to worry about being cheated or being fake. Please see:

1. Self-made seal. Is it true that only the first-day covers from Stamp Corporation and Beijing Branch are valuable and collectible, but not homemade ones? If everyone’s stamp collection contains the same corporate envelopes from Nanjing to Beijing, what else would there be to see and what features would there be? Stamp collecting should be about hundreds of flowers blooming, so stamp collecting should encourage self-made seals, writing, drawing and designing by yourself. Don't be superstitious, don't feel inferior, there will be thunder in the silent place, maybe a few years later, your career will be successful, and these self-made seals will be very precious. The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and stamp collectors become stronger and stronger each generation.

2. Family postcards. Every Spring Festival, everyone has a great reunion, young and old, gathering together happily. The light of happiness will always surround your home, and every minute will be peaceful and happy. In this happy time, let’s all sign a postcard as a whole family! Grandpa and grandma sign first, then mom and dad, then everyone signs, and then affixes a zodiac stamp and stamps the date of the first day of the new year. It would be better if relatives from Taiwan come back, “ old mother Long Zhonger has white hair, smiles at reunion and cheers. amp;rdquo;Four generations living under the same roof is better, three generations is also good, and they sign once a year during the Spring Festival. A few years later, the old one passed away and the young one grew up. When seeing things, I miss people, which is both nostalgia and nostalgia. Memories are another kind of encounter. Postcards of family reunions year after year are even more precious.

3. Birthday postcards. On everyone's birthday, they usually invite friends to spend a good time together, singing or dancing, which is so much fun. But if you use an exquisite postcard for every birthday, affix a stamp issued that year, and stamp the date of your birthday, one card a year, don’t miss one. When you are sixty or seventy years old... you look back and see how meaningful it will be! The date stamp has kissed the stamp, leaving the trace of youth; the journey of life! Sparkling glow. ”

4. Travel postcards.

Mr. Lei Tongding, the late Hunan philatelist, collected stamps for seventy years. He traveled through many mountains and rivers and visited many cities in his life. Look, his travel postcards have postmarks from Peiping in the 1930s, commemorative stamps from Chongqing in the 1940s, and now they have the scenery of Juzizhoutou in Changsha. amp;ldquo;On the bank of the long bridge, the sound of cuckoos is heard, and passenger ships pass by at the head of Juzizhou. The years are long and life is easy to grow old. Lei Lao measures life with his footsteps and depicts the mountains and rivers with his postmarks. I have seen this album of travel postcards by Lei Lao. The reappearance of the century and the vicissitudes of thousands of miles of mountains and rivers are so precious. Mr. Lei can do it, young people, you can do it too. I advise you to stamp a local place name and scenery stamp wherever you go! Over time, it becomes a landscape painting of the motherland and a history of place names.

5. Graduation commemorative postcards. No matter you graduate from elementary school, middle school or university. On the day of graduation, it must have been a lively event, with photos taken and words exchanged. Goodbye, let the students sign the postcards you have prepared! Today, many students gather together happily; on the road to the Long March tomorrow, they want to compete with God. Let’s look at our classmates thirty years later. Who is the hero and who is the hero? Whoever plays with life will achieve nothing. One day when you are old, look again. The postcard you left for your graduation from that year would be so precious if some of your classmates turned out to be great people later on. Your thoughts must be filled with joy and excitement! Therefore, today's ordinary stamps may also be tomorrow's treasures.

amp;ldquo;The long road to Xiongguan is really like iron, but now we are crossing it from the beginning, and crossing it from the beginning. ”Let us use new stamp collecting methods to beautify our lives.

4. Reform stamp collecting and enrich life

1. Painting stamp collecting. There are many precedents for this. Mr. Xue Shaotang, the late famous Taiwanese philatelist, as early as the 1960s, divided stamps into different colors and patterns, and then carefully cut and pasted them into various paintings on white paper, such as landscapes and animals. , characters, flowers, etc. Mr. Xue Shaotang is from Hebei. When he was young, he was in the leather business in the Northeast. He captured many tigers and had a good understanding of tiger habits. Later, he cut and pasted stamps into various tigers, which were lifelike and particularly beautiful. The famous "Life Illustrated" in the United States once published a stamp cutout of a tiger by Xue Shaotang, which was well received. In fact, as early as the 1920s, some philatelists in Shanghai had cut and pasted some ordinary stamps or incomplete stamps into a painting. Some people also cut and paste these stamps on the back of postcards and send them to postal friends. They are unique and very popular. But in recent years, stamp clip art has been rare. There are also very few people writing articles to introduce or promote it. Stamp clipart can cultivate people's beautiful minds and enhance people's aesthetic concepts. I think some post offices and postal magazines can promote and introduce it.

2. Humorous stamp collecting. In this regard, the famous German cartoonist Heinz Tyne has set an example for us. He has unique ingenuity and a broad mind. He often has a stamp in his hand. He is very handy and can conceive a series of delightful stamp cartoons. He uses concise and humorous jokes to express the colorful stamp collecting activities from different angles. . The pictures are vivid and the meaning is meaningful, allowing people to be educated and inspired through laughter.

There are also many domestic stamp collectors who have made useful attempts in this regard, and have achieved great results and are loved by stamp collectors, such as the philatelic cartoons of Lao Jiu, Liu Qixing, Ren Lizhong and Zheng Nanchu. , are all very distinctive and each has its own merits. Especially Lao Jiu, an art teacher at the Chinese Opera School, whose "Philatelic Humorous Drawings" are very thought-provoking. A single stamp can draw many meaningful cartoons under his pen. They broke new ground for stamp collecting. We can also refer to and learn from it, associate a stamp with various artistic conceptions, and get spiritual comfort from it. We should vigorously promote humorous stamp collecting, especially for the elderly. I have written many times that philately cannot turn stamps into politics and use stamps as political propaganda.

Collecting stamps is for happiness. If you are not happy, don’t collect stamps. My wife sometimes complains to me that you see other people making money by collecting stamps, but you have to subsidize your salary in order to run the "Jiazi Postal Journal". At the climax, you bought so many stamps and were stuck again. I said, it doesn’t matter if you don’t get rich, and don’t worry if you get stuck on stamps. The biggest gain from stamp collecting for me is good health, and everything else doesn’t matter. Even if all the stamps are burned up, the health of the elderly will be saved. Therefore, I advise readers to regard stamp collecting as humorous, like Lao Jiuqi going to Yangzhou, like Liu Qixing who writes his way into the country, live happily, let stamps become the god of happiness, and make the world a gentleman. As long as a lady is healthy and long-lived, as long as she is happy, she will laugh it off if she does not win any prizes or is not a director of the Philatelic Association.

3. Poetry and stamp collecting. For example, poets Tang Haibo, Hu Shaowu, Xiang Weipu, Fang Chongyuan, Fang Peiji, etc. are all famous philatelic poets from north to south. They are both stamp fans and poets, and their stamp albums are unique. There are both stamps and poems on each patch. The stamps are so exquisite and the poems are so fragrant. They are really poetic and artistic, with noble artistic conception. Please read Tang Haibo's poem about the stamps of the Year of the Horse: “The glorious years are running away, and the beautiful mountains and rivers are looking forward to comfort. The road ahead requires a thousand miles, and Bole did not write in the old days. ”How well written. Please look at a poem by Hu Shaowu on the patch of the "Hengshan" stamp album. It is so beautiful: "The painting is hazy and poetic, the white clouds are misty and the eyes are endless. It is difficult to distinguish between illusion and reality. Zhurong Peak is in the world and in the sky." amp;rdquo; Mr. Hu was already over eighty years old when he wrote this poem, but his imagination was so rich, like flying white clouds and fleeting sparks. Isn’t this kind of poetic philately superior to traditional stamp collecting? Changsha Wan Zhengren, a young postal friend, paired the Yangtze Three Gorges stamps with "Wushan Goddess" by the famous lyricist Qiao Yu: “I am clouds, I am fog, I am the endless water of the Yangtze River&... hellip;amp;rdquo;. Reading these stamp collections made me think a lot. Isn't this much better than a single collection and a set of stamps? Why should we stick to the traditional stamp collection? Break the old tradition and break out a new way. Stamp collecting will be in 21 There are new formats emerging in this century.

4. Three U stamp collection. Combining tourism with philately is the best way to develop philately. Nowadays, tourism is in the ascendant and developing vigorously in our country; the mountains and rivers of the Kingdom of God are infinitely beautiful, and we are full of emotions all the way. The beautiful scenery is highlighted one by one, and the collection is like a painting. Li Mingliang, a young postal friend from Shandong, visited more than 3,000 kilometers of the motherland's coastline at his own expense, stamping more than 380 scenic spots in large and small towns along the South China Sea, East China Sea, Yellow Sea, and Bohai Sea on his stamp album. Now he is traveling along the Travel thousands of miles along the Yangtze River to collect place name stamps along the Yangtze River.

Therefore, I think stamp collecting should be boldly reformed. The original intention of stamp collecting is to beautify life, enrich life, brighten life and make life happy. As long as collecting stamps makes us happy, increases our knowledge, and makes us healthy, I can collect whatever I want. Regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, everything is for the beauty of life.