To accommodate the public's need to send New Year's greeting cards, the Directorate General of Posts plans to issue a set of two New Year's Greeting Postage Stamps (Issue of 1998), as well as souvenir sheets and stamp boolkets.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 Branchesalso 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 their theme, which has been called as Chinese Zodiac Stamps. Next year, 1999 is the chi-mao year (chi is the sixth of the Ten Celestial Stems and mao is the fourth of the Twelve Terrestrial Branch and signifies the year of the rabbit).To welcome the year of the rabbit, the Directorate has chosen the work of Mr. Lin Chun-liang, who won first prize in a competition of rabbit designs. The two stamps will have face values of NT$3.50 and NT$13.00. The souvenir sheet comprises two sets of these stamps, worth NT$33.00. The stamp booklet is composed of twelve NT$3.50stamps, with a total value of NT$42.00.