| Stamp sn | D677 |
|---|---|
| Stamp Name | Sp.677 Classical Chinese Poetry Stamps (Issue of 2019) |
| Stamp Cat Standard | Special Stamps |
| Stamp Cat | Literature,Literature |
| First day of issue | 2019-06-12 |
| Suspension Date | |
| Dimension of stamps(mm.) | 30 × 50 (mm) |
| Size of souvenir Sheet (mm.) | |
| Printer | China Color Printing Co., Ltd. |
| Drawer | Shen Cheen |
| Designer | Delta Design Corporation |
| Photographer | |
| Engraver | |
| Creative Director | |
| Sheet composition | 18 |
| Color | Colorful |
| Process | Offset |
| Paper used | Phosphorescent stamp paper |
| Back | |
| Perforation | 12½ × 13 |
To promote understanding of Chinese classical literature, Chunghwa Post issued a set of stamps on classical poetry on July 6, 2018. It is now following up with a set of four stamps on poems featuring the four seasons that use quatrains with seven-character lines: Bai Juyi’s “Spring Wind,” Fan Chengda’s “Summer Fun on the Farm,” Du Mu’s “An Autumn Evening,” and Zheng Banqiao’s “After Snowfall in the Mountains.” The poems follow:
1. “Spring Wind,” Bai Juyi (NT$6): “When spring wind blows, plums bloom first in the palace garden / Cherries, apricots, peaches and pears then follow one after another / In villages water chestnuts and elms join in as if to say: / The spring wind has come for us too.”
2. “Summer Fun on the Farm,” Fan Chengda (NT$8): “Weeding the fields during the day, twisting linen at night / The men and women of the village each have their own jobs to do / Although children don’t know yet how to plow or weave / Even they are learning how to plant gourds.”
3. “An Autumn Evening,” Du Mu (NT$9): “A candle flickers against a painted screen on a cool autumn night / She flicks her small silk fan at darting fireflies / The sky arches darkly above as frigid as deep water / As she sits gazing upon the cowherd and weaver girl in the sky.”
4. “After Snowfall in the Mountains,” Zheng Banqiao (NT$15): “Opening the door in the morning reveals the hills covered in snow / And the cool sunlight filtering through light morning clouds / The snow remains piled on the eaves and the plum blossoms frozen / What a cold and weirdly forsaken ambiance!”
