What are the significance and development trends of stamp collecting?

The stamps issued by a country are a mirror of the country, and the stamps are the country’s business card. Below is what I have collected for you about the significance and development trends of stamp collecting. Welcome to learn from it.

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.

Stamp collecting may seem plain, but in reality 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. It is not restricted by gender, age, or nationality. Since the 1980s, stamp collecting activities have developed vigorously not only in China but also abroad, which is beyond the reach of other cultural art collections.

Stamp collection 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 recruit philatelic friends from other countries to join the association. I was fortunate to join the association in June 1988.

2. Stamp collecting 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, my country's stamps have reflected the great achievements of our country 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, with industry and agriculture thriving at an annual rate of 8.6%. It has joined the WTO and is in line with international standards. In 2008 in Beijing The Olympic Games were held, the World Expo was held in Shanghai in 2010, Yang Liwei's manned space flight successfully returned, the Three Gorges Project was successfully completed, transportation is accessible in all directions, civil aviation covers the country, railway speeds have been accelerated several times, Changsha and Beijing arrive at dawn and dusk, without stopping at one stop in between. 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:

①Reflecting 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 commemorating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.

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

③There 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 people’s victory, stamps of reform and opening up, special economic zone construction, ethnic songs and dances, Asian Games stamps, and Olympic Games stamps. Another example is that table tennis won seven consecutive championships and the Chinese women's volleyball team won five consecutive championships. Poet Tang Haibo wrote a poem praising the women's volleyball team, "To this day the spring thunder on both sides of the Taiwan Strait is 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.

Philately is a joy, and the joy of philately is endless. It can not only promote civilization, but also make friends and travel widely. Each postal mark is a national business card; reform and opening up, prosperity; loving the motherland, enriching life; learning from others' strengths and observing each other; far and wide, postal friendship is deep. Beautiful! Stamp collection.

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

A stamp album is an extracurricular reading material, an encyclopedia of images, an ocean of knowledge, a garden of science, a textbook of history, and a gem of art. Proper collection of stamps can increase your 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, an astronomer, invented the seismometer.

Mathematician Zu Chongzhi discovered pi 3.1416?, 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 stamps. He is from Jilin. 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 ignore it and not shave. This 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 collecting 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 makes it public. In January 1998, he braved the severe cold to come to my home and saw my collection of stamp albums "The Delightful Unity" and the "Jiazi Postal Journal" I founded. He happily wrote an inscription for me: "The stamps reflect the progress of the motherland. Stamp collection Promote the construction of spiritual civilization." Comrade Zheng Peimin's inscription highly summarizes the 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. I hope You have built a stamp collector's home and become a paradise for stamp collectors.

5. Stamp collecting can enhance friendship and promote communication

"We have friends all over the world" and "it is a great pleasure to have friends from far away." 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 an 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 was colorful, bright and generous, and was very popular. It also promoted 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 with the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and promote exchanges among postal friends from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, I once published "Postal Friends from across the Taiwan Strait" There are 1 or 2 volumes of "Address Book", 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. "When we meet and want to ask about the length of our love, the pointer comes and smiles." 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 flowers sent by the letter convey the feeling of spring, the wind is gentle on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and the willow leaves are green. On the twenty-four bridges under the moonlit night, I can see stamps everywhere today."

In the cultural exchanges between various countries and ethnic groups, stamps are an important factor. The simplest, fastest and most widespread medium, an envelope, affixed with a stamp, can fly to all parts of the world to complete the mission of delivering information. Liu Yi's letter is a very famous story. There is a child in Yueyang named Wang Yumeng. He designed a stamp, "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. It flies, flies, and flies to Sun Moon Lake. Children in Taiwan, let's hold hands as soon as possible, sit in rows, and eat fruits. , let us grow up quickly and contribute to the construction of the motherland.

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

Young people collecting stamps can not only increase their stamp knowledge, but also benefit the growth of teenagers. Some teenagers are obsessed with surfing the Internet and stay up all night. , affects learning, and is also harmful to health, and collecting stamps can give us sustenance and hope. Collecting stamps for the elderly is beneficial to the body and mind, because if the elderly do not participate in activities, they may accelerate their decline. Although collecting stamps makes people busy, they have hope. Forget your 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 longevity." "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 must collect stamps. Instead of spending money to buy health medicines, it is better to spend money to buy several sets of stamps. Collect stamps It 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: one day you find a set of stamps in the stamp market that are exactly what you have been doing. If you can't find it and suddenly find it, and the price is right, you will be very happy and jump with joy. When you collect a set of four stamps, but there are still one high value stamp missing, and suddenly there is one. How happy you would be if your postal friend gave you the stamp you were missing. When the stamp collection you worked so hard to compile receives a favor or even wins a prize at a stamp exhibition, you will definitely feel happy when you receive it from a postal friend from far away. How happy will you be when your stamp collection 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? 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 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 his stamp collection, etc. They all lived a long and happy life. These are the benefits of stamp collecting.

Therefore, we promote stamp collecting, especially for the elderly, but this is not for the sake of increasing the value of stamps in the future, but for the sake of happiness. Health. The great poet Tao Yuanming once said in "The Biography of Mr. Wuliu": "If you are good at reading, you will forget to eat and sleep every time you have thoughts." This is how you can truly understand the benefits of collecting stamps. Fuzzy stamp collecting is 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, it is also true. 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 number, unlike other products, they can be used up. It can also be reproduced. Stamps are the orthodoxy of collection. From the perspective of tradition, people's habits and preferences, other collections cannot keep up with stamps. This is the natural law of the market economy. Through the macroeconomic adjustment of the national postal department, the reduction of stamp issuance and the control of the primary market and other favorable policies, the postal market is expected to recover, especially some old special stamps, which have been increased by nearly 30% this year, which is gratifying. Phenomenon.

The development trend of stamp collection

Everything is changing, and stamp collection is also constantly changing. We cannot stick to the old rules and should change with the changes of the times. The market has entered a low ebb, 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 existed 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 go 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 "four combinations" will be the future development trend of stamp collecting.

First, combine it with the topic. That is the "thematic stamp collecting" currently advocated. Thematic philately began in the 1970s and became more common in the 1980s. The so-called "thematic philately" is related to one's profession, expertise, hobbies, and interests. Because it is one's own expertise or occupation, the collection , it is more convenient, you can also 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 it 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 albums, covers, and films related to the "Eight Years of Anti-Japanese War", or "Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea," or "Ten Years," or "The Glorious Achievements of More than Twenty Years of Reform and Opening Up," or "China *** "The Eighty-Year Glorious History of the Communist Party" or the "Twenty-five Thousand Mile Long March", etc. There is also the history of postal services across the Taiwan Strait.

Starting from June 1st, cross-strait postal services were opened. In the past, letters were forwarded by the Red Cross. There is a "mailbox No. 50,000" in Taipei. All parcels sent to the mainland were forwarded through this mailbox and sent to Hong Kong. , stamped "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 "Shenzhou 8", such as "the return of Hong Kong and Macao", such as "fighting SARS". Nowadays, many postal friends collect stamp collections, covers, sheets and stamps related to "fighting SARS". I have a Beijing-specific stamp. It is rare to see a genuine envelope sent from Xiaotangshan Hospital signed by the director of Xiaotangshan Hospital who treated SARS.

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. It proves that the Kuomintang did not care about the life and death of the people at that time. The city was set on fire and the earth was scorched.

Another example is the "Hong Kong Details" envelope, which is the actual envelope of cross-strait exchanges and is 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, and 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, 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 Heroes" series of covers issued by Changsha Stamp Company in 1985 are all very popular and valuable, and are difficult to buy now.

The theme of the cover sheet should be good. I wrote an article on October 6, 1985 to introduce the Changsha Stamp Company’s "Marshal and General" cover sheet. After it was published in the "Liberation Army Daily", it attracted many people from all over the world. Stamp collectors 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.

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 "wind", 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 below, it won't cost a lot of money , and enjoy yourself without having to worry about being deceived or being fake. Please see:

1. Self-made seal. Is it true that only the first-day covers from the Stamp Corporation and the Beijing Branch are valuable and collectible, but not the homemade ones? If everyone's stamp collection contains the same stamps from the head office, from Nanjing to Beijing, then what else is there to see and what are the features? 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 even better if relatives from Taiwan come back, "Old mother Long Zhong'er has white hair, smiles and cheers after reunion." It is better for four generations to live together, and three generations are also good. They sign their names once every 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? Look back and see how meaningful it will be! "The stamp has kissed the stamp, leaving the trace of youth; the journey of life! Sparkling."

4. Travel postcards. Mr. Lei Tongding, the late Hunan philatelist, has been collecting stamps for seventy years. He has 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. "The sound of cuckoos is heard by the long bridge, 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 long march in the future, they want to compete with God. Look again thirty years later; the classmates of that year, who is the hero and who is the hero; "Whoever plays with life will achieve nothing?" One day when you are old, look again at this graduation postcard you left, and if it is among them Some classmates turned out to be great people. How precious this postcard must be. Your thoughts must be filled with joy and excitement! Therefore, today’s ordinary stamp products may be tomorrow’s “treasures”.

"The road to Xiongguan is really like iron, and now we are starting from the beginning, and starting from the beginning." Let us use a new stamp collecting method to beautify our lives.

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 the 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 Tien 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 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 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 "Stamp Humor 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 Jiu riding the "mail" to Yangzhou, like Liu Qixing writing his way through the country, living happily, let the stamps become the god of happiness, and let the men and women in the world live long and healthy, as long as they are happy , others who won no prizes or were not directors of the Philatelic Association laughed it off.

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 out, and the beautiful mountains and rivers are looking forward to it. The road ahead needs to be thousands of miles, and in the old days, Bole did not write." How well written. Please look at Hu Shaowu's poem 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." Mr. Hu He was over eighty years old when he wrote this poem, but his imagination was so rich, like flying white clouds, like fleeting sparks. Isn't this kind of poetic stamp collection better than traditional stamp collecting? Wan Zhengren, a young stamp collector from Changsha, He paired the Yangtze Three Gorges stamp with "Wushan Goddess" by the famous lyricist Qiao Yu: "I am clouds, I am fog, I am the endless Yangtze River water?". 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 in our country and is developing vigorously; the country of God has infinitely beautiful rivers and mountains, and it is full of emotions along 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. He stamped 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 coast. Travel thousands of miles along the Yangtze River to collect place name stamps along the Yangtze River.

So, 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.