The State Post Bureau issued a one-piece
set of special stamp, entitled "The year of Ding Hai ", with a total face value of 1.2yuan on January 5,2007. The pictures on the stamps are named "The Year of Ding Hai ".At the same time,China National Philatelic Corporation specially made a hardback stamp album named"Receiving Blessings in the Year of the Pig." It contains he stamps of "The Year of Ding Hai" for collection.
2007 is a year of Ding Hai in traditional Chinese calendar and also a year of the pig.Since the time of matrilineal commune, Chinese people have started raising pigs.For several thousand years they've been humans'friends and made a great contribution to our society.The domestic pigs stand for sincerity, honesty, leisure, blessing, affluence, fortune, ausprice and wealth.They are thought of as a symbol of "cornucopia" by Chinese people........>>>More
