The colorful Chinese New Year festive Can Guanquan (Visit
Ticket)
In 1994 Lunar New Year´s Day, which is February 10, in this new
year, the Postal Museum on a set of two special printing of the
Lunar New Year Can Guanquan, design per year for the Lunar New Year
theme, so far Has issued a twelf.
Can Guanquan General to present a screen peacock stamps for the old
painting patterns, but every year the Lunar New Year Can Guanquan
Postal Museum, are drawn to the special person Can Guanquan,
different in each of the author´s style, the annual Lunar New
Year´s Day, the Post Can Guanquan the museum on New Year even more
special, colorful patterns and not only can the New Year with the
annual Lunar New Year´s Day Can Guanquan issued Ji Nianchuo
(Memorial
postmark),
very beautiful.
The Chinese have traditionally used
double-revolving combinations of the Ten Celestial Stems and the
Twelve Terrestrial Branches to designate years. The full 60-year
cycle is called a chia-tzu, for the first stem and first branch.
The Twelve Terrestrial Branches also have animal representations:
tzu (rat), chou (ox), yin (tiger), mao (rabbit), chen (dragon), szu
(snake), wu (horse), wei (sheep), shen (monkey), yu (rooster), hsu
(dog) and hai (pig). Each year the Directorate issues New Year´s
Greeting Postage Stamps taking the upcoming year´s animal sign as
the theme.
The red ticket as regular
for General Audiences, green ticket as
discount for student etc.
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