The taste of 2024 is getting stronger Hello everyone, I am Gen Yuexuan, and I have loved collecting since I was a child. Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and Gen Yuexuan is here to give you a New Year's greeting. When I woke up early in the morning, I remembered a poem "Yuan Ri" on the first day of the Lunar New Year by Wang Anshi, a politician and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, and gave it to everyone, wishing everyone a happy New Year.
Yuan Ri.In the previous article, Gen Yuexuan has mentioned many times that the chronological stamps issued by China's postal service are actually not uselessWhy did the chronicle stamp become "Adou who can't be helped".In this article, I said that there was a brief "period of renaissance" in the annual stamps issued between 2000 and 2003.Northern Song Dynasty Wang Anshi.
In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu.
Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one.
The stamps of this period are: 2000-1 Gengchen Dragon, 2000-4 unearthed cultural relics dragon, 2001-1 snake, 2002-2 horse, etc., but to be honest, these stamps are mainly based on zodiac stamps. If you put aside the theme of the zodiac, in fact, there is another set of stamps that can take on the responsibility of "ZTE".
At the end of January 2000, in order to celebrate the traditional Spring Festival of the Chinese nation, the State Post Bureau issued a set of special stamps for the 2000-2 "Spring Festival". In fact, this set of stamps contains the rich and simple characteristics of the traditional Chinese New Year, adding a strong festive atmosphere to the first Chinese New Year. Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, Gen Yuexuan will talk to you about this set of Spring Festival stamps that were all the rage.
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The 2000-2 "Spring Festival" special stamp was issued by the State Post Bureau of the People's Republic of China on January 29, 2000 to celebrate the traditional Chinese New Year.
This set of three stamps depicts the preparations for the Chinese New Year, the customs of the Chinese New Year, and the warm scene of the social fire during the Spring Festival.
This set of stamps takes the three stages of the Spring Festival as the main line, including the welcome, the past and the celebration, with the "Family Joy" souvenir sheet, with the content of sticking the Spring Festival, setting off firecrackers, making social fires and Chinese New Year's Eve reunion and other things that are done every year, every family and everyone, with the help of the unique folk art in the form of "peasant painting" design, fully expressing the enthusiasm, simplicity and sincere thoughts and feelings of the broad masses of the people, which is not only full of romanticism, but also pays attention to decorative style.
In the shape of the figures, the head and eyes are highlighted, and the proportions and movements of the human body are reasonably exaggerated, some are exaggerated, some are deformed, and some are omitted, reaching the artistic realm of simplicity and clumsiness. In the use of color, pay attention to the use of primary colors, strong contrast, red and green, back to the basics, elegant and vulgar appreciation.
2000-2 Spring Festival - New Year (3-1).
In order to have a good year, after the twenty-third year of the lunar month, they began to be busy in a joyful atmosphere: paste the Spring Festival couplets, change the door gods, paste window flowers, hang New Year's paintings, as the so-called "thousands of doors and thousands of pupils day, always replace the new peach with the old charm", thousands of households are bright red Spring Festival couplets and window flowers everywhere, condensing people's farewell to the old and welcoming the new and praying for happiness in the coming year.
The activities of welcoming the spring are rich and colorful, and the designer adopts the method of replacing the face with points, and only depicts the image of a clever daughter-in-law and a girl on the picture, one of them holding scissors in their hands, and is concentrating on cutting window flowers; One raised his arms high, carefully pasting the window flowers, the red window flowers and bright new clothes are blended in the joyful warm colors, vividly showing the joyful atmosphere of people welcoming the New Year. In terms of color, the bright yellow background and the red of the characters' clothes constitute the warm colors of the large color blocks, which vividly express the brightness and joy of welcoming spring, and are full of strong artistic appeal.
2000-2 Spring Festival - Farewell to the old year (3-2).
On the 30th day of the lunar month, called "Chinese New Year's Eve", the family reunites, eats a reunion dinner, sits and waits for the day after the meal, and begins to observe the New Year, and the juniors will pay homage to the elder, commonly known as the resignation year. Sticking the door god, sticking the Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, and putting up lanterns are also the content of the activities of the old year. The designer chose a lantern and two children setting off fireworks as the main body of the picture.
In this stamp, children are identified as the focus of the festival, and the innocence of children is in line with the joyful atmosphere of the festival. The little girl in the picture covers her ears with her hands, and the little boy reaches out and is about to light the fireworks, what a vivid and exciting moment! Against the backdrop of the green background, the word "Fu" on the lantern is very eye-catching, and the whole picture is filled with a strong sense of happiness and rich folk connotation.
2000-2 Spring Festival - Troublesome Social Fire (3-3).
Shehuo is a traditional group amusement activity held by the people during the festival, such as lion dance, dragon lantern, etc. The social fire is also the climax of the Spring Festival activities. The scope and form of the fire are rich and colorful, and the dragon dance is the most representative project. The Chinese nation admires the dragon and regards it as a symbol of good luck. In people's minds, dragons can call the wind and rain to eliminate disasters and epidemics. The festival dragon dance is a kind of hope and wish of people.
The designer chose dragon dance, fan dance and tambourine playing as the main body of the picture, and the flying red silk expresses the dynamic and festive atmosphere. Combining reality and imagination in the technique, the dragon is not dancing, but it makes people feel that the dragon is dancing lively. In terms of character modeling and color use, the simple character modeling and strong color use have reached the extreme, which is rich in distinctive folk characteristics.
On the same day that the Spring Festival was issued, the Post Office also issued a souvenir sheet and three mini-panes.
The souvenir sheet pattern of the Spring Festival is based on a bright yellow background, depicting the scene of the Chinese New Year's Chinese New Year's Eve reunion. Three generations of young and old are beaming, sitting around making dumplings to spend Chinese New Year's Eve together. The grandmother puts on new clothes for her little grandson; The children wore tiger hats and danced happily; The old man smoked a dry tobacco pouch and was overjoyed; The son and daughter-in-law skillfully wrap the dumplings. The lantern with the word "Fu" was hung high, and the Spring Festival couplets of Doufang were uprightly pasted on the door frames on both sides.
The family has a peaceful atmosphere, and even the kitten's eyes radiate a joyful and festive light, which is the epitome of the Chinese family Spring Festival reunion. The designer added a paper-cut pattern around the picture, expressing the meaning of auspiciousness, surplus every year, wealth and peace.
You should note here that this 2000-2 "Spring Festival" M miniature sheet is divided into two types: no words and plus words miniature sheet, you should pay attention to it when you usually collect it.
This set of stamps has a large circulation, but because the subject matter is relatively good, full of strong Chinese New Year flavor, soon after the stamp was issued, there was speculation in the postal market. The postal dealers are still not giving up, but they don't know that the man-made malicious speculation has brought greater harm to the postal market, that is, the counterfeiters take the opportunity to enter, indiscriminately fill the number, and eventually cause the postage stamps to be discounted and dumped, which is the inevitable result of the counterfeit products after the real thing.
After the 2000-2 "Spring Festival" special stamp counterfeit appeared, the genuine of this set of stamps also fell into the ranks of discounts. Because the counterfeit uses high technology and is realistically made, it is difficult for people who lack experience in identification to distinguish their authenticity, so counterfeits are often used in a large number of communications, and the postal service is also blind to this matter, too lazy to identify. Deng Yuexuan combined with his many years of collecting experience, now the 2000-2 Spring Festival stamps of the anti-counterfeiting identification method to share the following, personal views for reference only.
1.Look at the variety.
Genuine products are printed with photocopying plates, all color dots are at an angle of 45 °, the size of the dots is the same, hollow, and the edges of the text are jagged: counterfeits are printed with offset plates, counterfeiters are realistic for imitation, in addition to the perforations and brush colors are the same as the real product, more importantly, when making plates, the dots of the offset plate are forged into the same size as much as possible, and some of the dots are also 45 °, the face value of stamps and other texts are also printed in black, and the large area of brush color is used to use the reticulated version to create a false appearance like a shadow version. These can only deceive collectors, postage stamp investors, and postal workers who are not familiar with the variety, and if you carefully discern them with a high-powered magnifying glass, you can see that they are clearly different from the real thing.
2.Look at the chronicle number and background color.
The genuine number is printed in a black special edition, and the edges of the text are jagged; The background color of the stamps is simple, showing the inherent water ripples of the photographic version: the counterfeit number is also printed in a black special edition, and the edges of the text are neat; The background color of the stamps is not simple, it is a two-color overprint, and there are dots.
When this souvenir sheet was issued, it was also in the midst of a very sluggish postal market, and it was rare to be able to achieve a premium above the face value at a market price**.
Later, after the Spring Festival in 2001, when the postal market began to pick up, some criminals forged "Spring Festival" souvenir sheets for profit and put them on the market, which were first discovered in the Wuhan Post Market.
The counterfeit "Spring Festival" souvenir sheet is printed on coated paper with offset plate, without brushing the adhesive, with perforations, and the perforation is 115 degrees and 11 degrees (the same as one of the measured perforations in the real product). The size of the counterfeit "Spring Festival" souvenir sheet is 1225mm×84.5mm, the stamp specification is 89mm 60mm: the pattern and text brush color of the counterfeit "Spring Festival" souvenir sheet is lighter than the genuine product, except for the face and hands of the characters are covered with reticulation, the other parts of the brush color are real printing, no reticulation; The printing is clear and more realistic.
The biggest loophole is that in the lower right corner of the stamp design, the counterfeit product omits the "T" character in the stamp, so that the authenticity of the 2000-2M "Spring Festival" souvenir sheet can be quickly distinguished, but it should be wary of forgers to fill this loophole. Here's how to identify it:
1.Look at the variety.
The original miniature sheet of "Spring Festival" is printed in a photocopying version, with pure, bright, thick, layered, and prominent features of the photocopying version; The counterfeit is printed on offset plates, with a light color and lack of layers, and the difference between the real and the fake can be clearly seen from the head of a young child wearing a tiger head hat in the stamp design.
2.Look at the mind.
The original miniature sheet of "Spring Festival" is printed with a photographic version of "China Post China", and the mesh is clear; Counterfeit products are printed on offset plates, without reticulation.
3.Measure the perforation.
Spring Festival miniature sheet genuine perforation of the new post forecast of 11 degrees, the author measured its perforation and found that in addition to a kind of 11 degrees, there is also a kind of 115 degrees 11 degrees; The perforation of the counterfeit product is 115 degrees 11 degrees;
4.Identification with violet light.
The genuine Spring Festival souvenir sheet is printed with anti-counterfeiting fluorescent ink, and the stamp pattern is bright and fluorescent under the illumination of purple light. Counterfeit products are also fluorescent, but not as strong as the real thing, and the back of the supple sheet is illuminated with a purple light, and the real product is dark purple; Counterfeits are bright white.
Gen Yuexuan believes that the images in this set of 2000-2 Spring Festival special stamps and souvenir sheets issued on January 29, 2000 are the set of stamps that best come close to the original painting of Wang Anshi's poem "Yuan Ri".
The 3-1 pattern in the window flower and door god truly interprets the sentence in Wang Anshi's poem "Yuan Ri", "Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old charm"; In the 3-2 pattern, the children set off firecrackers, which truly interprets the "sound of firecrackers for one year"; The 3-3 high-value pattern of the dragon dance and the young men and women dancing the fan dance, playing the waist drum, not only set off the lively atmosphere of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon in 2000, highlighting the spirit of the dragon and horse of the Chinese nation, but also symbolize the Chinese nation to the dragon as the spiritual totem, entrusting people to the coming year's wind and rain, the dragon and the tiger leap a kind of hope and wish, which may be the charm of this set of Spring Festival stamps "the most Chinese year".
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