I
would like to wish you, Your Families and friends a Happy New Year.
That
2012 can bring you all Good Health, Happiness, Success and Joy.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Monday, December 26, 2011
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Season’s Greetings Postcard from Macao Post Philately Division
Season’s Greetings Postcard from Macao Post
Philately Division
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Welcome the 11000th Visitors
(English version)
Here are the best Philatelic greetings to
visitors from all over the world who daily visit my blog.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
140th Anniversary of Kiang Wu Hospital Charitable Association
As being the main body of the Charitable
Association, at the time of establishment, Kiang Wu Hospital dedicated their
efforts into helping the sick by using traditional Chinese medicine. At that
time, natural disasters frequently took place in the mainland, which brought
continuous misery upon the people in mainland China, so the directors of the Charitable
Association proactively made donation to relieve the people in disasters. ln
1893, Emperor Guangxu of the
Qing Dynasty granted the Association a plaque,
with “Built under the Emperor’s Order” as recognition of their contribution. In
1892, Mr. Sun Yat-sen went to Kiang Wu Hospital to undertake the post of
voluntary doctor of western medicine and opened up the vanguard of western
medicine. ln order to support Mr. Sun Yat-sen in connecting with the society by
making use of his medical skills to declare the thoughts of democratic
revolution, the Charitable Association offered great amount of funds for
subsidy. During the period of the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945), Kiang Vu
Hospital directly supported the frontline, by providing medical treatment to
the wounded, relieving the refugees and acting as the chief of Macao Branch of
“War Bond Fundraising Committee” to actively raise funds for supporting the
Anti-Japanese War. After Hong Kong was occupied by the enemy, the Association
also helped to evacuate a lot of intellectualists and nationalists. Kiang Vu
Hospital has always been serving the comunity with the spirit of practicing
medicine to help, heal and rescue those in need. Since the foundation of New
China in 1949, it has been constantly walking towards modernization.
After the return of Macao to the motherland,
specialized technologies began to develop rapidly. Adhering to the guideline of
“patients-oriented”, the hospital emphasizes strongly on teaching and
scientific research and has established cooperative relationship with several
higher education institutions and medical organizations in the mainland ,Taiwan,
Hong Kong as well as Macao. Furthermore, the Hospital focuses on simultaneous
development in medical treatment, scientific research and teaching, which plays
an important role in the medical health care of Macao citizens.
Kiang Wu Nursing College and Kiang Peng School,
as subordinates to the Charitable Association, spare no efforts in promoting
the salutary influence of education and constantly improving education quality.
Kiang Wu Nursing College has launched various diversified courses to cultivate
high-quality nursing talents for the society, whilst Kiang Peng School has
gained plentiful and substantial achievements in the work of “promoting quality
education and building
first-class school” and has entered the list of
Macao's first-class schools. Other social services of the Charitable Association
have shown remarkable improvements in the aspects of service quality, environment,
etc.: and are aiming to improve further to serve the citizens.
Looking into the future, Kiang Wu Hospital
Charitable Association which has a history of 140 years will observe the purpose
of serving the society, continue with the past and open up the future, closely
cooperate with the policies of the government of the special region, make
reformation and innovation with new thoughts and new philosophies, walk towards
the new road and make new contributions.
This set of commemorative stamps integrates the
images such as the emblem, establishment stele, hoard, bronze statue of Mr. Sun
Yat-sen, pictures of buildings as well as the white marble embossments, etc.,
indicates the deal) friendship of the Charitable Association with Mr. Sun
Yat-sen, the development process of the Charitable Association closely
connected with Macao history of 140 years since the establishment and
consistent purpose of serving the society.
Kiang Wu Hospital Charitable Association
Translation: C&C - Translation Center, Ltd.
The Stamps:
The Souvenir Sheet:
The FDC with Stamps:
The FDC with Souvenir
Sheet:
The Post Mark:
Dados Técnicos/Technical
Data
Valor dos Selos/Stamps
Value: set of four stamps of 1.50, 2.50, 3.50 and 4.50 Patacas
Valor do Bloco/Souvenir
Sheet Value: 10.00 Patacas
Desenho/Design: Ng Wai Kin
Data emissão/Issue date: 28.10.2011
Impressor/Printer: Joh.
Enschedé Security Print, Netherlands
Impressão/Print: Offset
Lithography
Papel/Paper: Paper with
Security Fibers
Picotagem/Perforation: 14
x 13¼
Sunday, October 23, 2011
The Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命
 | |
| Souvenir sheets |
Prestige
Stamp Booklet jointly issued by Macao
Post, China Post and Hong Kong Post
The Xinhai Revolution
(named for the Chinese year of Xinhai (1911), was the overthrow of China's
ruling Qing Dynasty, sometimes known as the Manchu Dynasty, and the
establishment of the Republic of China.
The revolution began with the armed Wuchang
Uprising and the spread of republican insurrection through the southern
provinces, and culminated in the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor after
lengthy negotiations between rival Imperial and Republican regimes based in
Beijing and Nanjing respectively, in 1900, the ruling Qing Dynasty decided to
create a modernized army, called the "New Army". At the time, the city of Wuchang, on the Yangtze
River in the province of Hubel, had the most modernized military industry, so
it became the site where weapons and other military equipment for the New Army
were manufactured. The revolutionary ideas of Sun Yat-sen extensively
influenced officers and soldiers of the New Army in Wuchang, and many
participated in revolutionary organizations.
The uprising itself broke
out largely by accident. Revolutionaries intent on overthrowing the Qing
dynasty had built bombs and one accidentally exploded. This led police to
investigate, and they discovered lists of revolutionaries within the New Army.
At this point elements of the New Army revolted rather than face arrest. The
provincial government panicked and fled. Initially, the revolt was considered
to be merely the latest in a series of mutinies that had occurred in southern
China, and was widely expected to be quickly put down. The fact that it had
much larger implications was due to the fact that the Qing dynasty delayed
acting against the rebellion, allowing provincial assemblies in many southern
provinces to declare independence from the Qing and allegiance to the
rebellion.
Sun Yat-sen himself had no
direct part in the uprising and was traveling in the United States at the time
in an effort to recruit more support from among overseas Chinese. He found out
about the uprising by reading a newspaper report.
A sense of the Qing Dynasty having lost the mandate of heaven may have contributed to the revolt. Evidence of the loss of the mandate of heaven, in China, often constitutes of natural disasters, such as fires and floods. The Yangtze overflowed its banks in 1911, and the revolting troops were, of course, situated near that river. Such a flood would have had a profound psychological impact on any government officials, rebels, peas-ants, and other Chinese in the vicinity, and the flood was a notable disaster, with 100,000 fatalities.
A sense of the Qing Dynasty having lost the mandate of heaven may have contributed to the revolt. Evidence of the loss of the mandate of heaven, in China, often constitutes of natural disasters, such as fires and floods. The Yangtze overflowed its banks in 1911, and the revolting troops were, of course, situated near that river. Such a flood would have had a profound psychological impact on any government officials, rebels, peas-ants, and other Chinese in the vicinity, and the flood was a notable disaster, with 100,000 fatalities.
The Qing government failed
to respond for a crucial few weeks. This gave the revolutionaries time to
declare a provisional government. Other provincial assemblies then joined the
revolutionaries. Within a month, representatives of the seceding provinces had
met to declare a Republic of China. A compromise between the conservative
gentry and the revolutionaries saw Sun Yat-sen chosen as provisional president.
Leaving the brilliant
impression on China modern history, the Xinhai Revolution is a great piece of
political affair shocked around the world, which is the first time to flag
Democracy republic on China. It overthrew the Qing dynasty and founded the
Republic of China. This emancipated the people from the rule of the feudal system.
Centenary of Xinhai Revolution
In order to celebrate the Centenary of Xinhai
Revolution, Macao Post issues four commemorative stamps and one souvenir sheet.
The themes on the four stamps are “Revolutionary Preparation”, “Permanent
Heroism”, “Wuchang Uprising” and “Foundation of the Republic of China”
respectively and the theme on the souvenir sheet is “Recovery of China”.
Revolutionary Preparation
After a long term gestation and preparation,
Xintiai Revolution took Hong Kong and Macao as centers for command and planning,
funds collection, ammunition purchase and production, contacts of revolutionary
comrades at home and abroad and shelter for revolutionaries after failure of
uprising.
Gao Jianfu (1879 1951), one
of the founders of Lingnan Chinese Painting. He
served as Chairman with the Chinese Revolutionary League (Tongmenghui) of
Guangdong Branch, and he established the League of Macao Branch in 1911 at
No.41, Nanwan Street (Avenida da Praia Grande). He joined the famous
Huanghuagang Uprising and Guangzhou campaign, and died in Macao on 22 June
1951.
Permanent Heroism
The martyrs who joined the Huanghuagang Uprising
in Guangzhou, China on 27 April 1911 were buried in Huanghuagang Mausoleum of
72 Martyrs.
Huang Xing (1874 - 1916), genealogical name:
Keqiang. He launched the Huanghuagang Uprising in Guangzhou in 1911. After the
Wuchang Uprising broke out he became as Commander-in-chief in Time of War. He
died of constant overwork in 1916. Zliang Taiyan gave an elegiac couplet indicating:
“No Republic can be founded without him. He must be remembered for ever”.
Wuchang Uprising
Gate of Wuchang Uprising is lhe place where the
first gua was triggered off the Wuchang Uprising and the ancient city tower
named Harmony Gate (Zhonghe Men) was renamed as Uprising Gate (Qiyi Men).
Xiong Bitigkun (1885 - 1969), from Jiangxia,
Hubei Province. He served as Chief Representative of Gongjinhui in the 8°
battalion of the 8th town of Hubei warlord where he recruited about 200
revolutionaries in secrecy. Before the Wuchang Uprising on 10 October 1911,
when a solder named Cheng Dingguo fired and killed an officer of Qing army, he
whistled to gather the soldiers immediately, declaring the formal uprising and
then he led the army to occupy Chuwangtai armory. Afterwards revolutionaries in
armies inside and outside Wuchang rose up one after another. After the
revolutionaries controlled three cities in Wuhan, the people in other provinces
rose up as well arid the Qing Dynasty was overthrown.
Foundation of lhe Republic
of China
On 29 December 1911, through the joint decision
of representatives from 17 provinces. Sun Yat-sen was elected as Provisional
President. On 22:00, 1 January 1912, Sun Yat-sen acceded to Provisional
President in Nanjing and changed the title of the dynasty into the “Republic of
China” and the year 1912 was declared to be the first year of the Republic of
China.
The office of Provisional President Sun Yat-sen
was located at the west of Xii Yuan, 292 Changjiang Road, Nanjing, which was a
parlor formerly constructed by Duan Fang. governor-general of Qing Dynasty.
Sun Yat-sen (Sun Zhongshan) (1866 - 1925), big
name: Wen, genealogical name: Deining, baptized name: Rixin. Japanese name: Nakayarna Sho.
Though he served as President for 91 days only,
he established and issued more than 30 governmental decrees which would be
beneficial to the development of democratic politics, national capital and
cultural education and he was worth to be the pioneer of bourgeois revolution
and a great revolutionist of democratic revolutionary.
Recovery of China
Suit Yat-sen attached great importance to the
design of stamps when serving as Provisional President, and called Chengyu,
Secretary of Traffic Department and Tang Wenqi of Commissioner of Posts and
Telecommunications Department and so on to make careful study on the design of commemorative
stamps for national foundation and determined to terminate the datemark of
“Heavenly Stems” and “Earthly Branches”, and adopt the postal datemark of the
Republic of China. In late 1912, the commemorative stamps of recovery and
republic carrying design of head portrait of Sun Yat-sen and Yuan Shikai was
published respectively.
Sun Yat-sen liked writing “The world belongs to
the public” as gift. The phrase was abstracted out of “Liji - Liyun”: “A public
spirit will rule all under the sky when the great way prevails”, Mr. Sun
Yat-sen thought: “Equality and freedom are rights of citizens, however
officeholders shall be public servants for the citizens”. He swore before
serving as Provisional President: “Solidify the Republic of China, create
happiness for the people, which are what the people want, I should abide by the
tenet, loyal to my country and serve the people”. Sun Yat-sen introduced the
concepts of “serve the people” and “public servant” to China’s politics which
refresh everyone.
On 10 January 1912, the Provisional Senate
passed a special decision to adopt the Five-Colored Republic Flag (or Five-Colored
Flag) as national flag, which means a Republic for nationalities as Han,
Manchus, Mongols, Hui and Tibetan.
The Eighteen-Star Flag, the full name is Blood
Eighteen-Star Flag. it was a flag declared for the establishment of Hubei
Military Government after Wuchang Uprising. ln the second day of Wuchang
uprising, the Military Government planned to declare the foundation of the
Republic of China with the Blood Flag as revolutionary flag. On May 1921, after
Sun acceded to Extraordinary President, he declared to abolish the Five-Colored
Flag and Blood Flag and replace them with a flag of “Blue Sky with a White
Sun”.
Author: Yin Degang
Translation: C&C -
Translation Centre. Ltd.
Acknowledgement: photos of Huang Xing, Sun Yat
sen (Provisional President), Gate of Wuchang Uprising, the Office of Provisional
President in Nanjing and the Swear of Provisional President Sun Yan-sen.
The Stamps:
The Sheetlet:
The Souvenir Sheet:
The FDC with Stamps:
The FDC with Souvenir
Sheet:
The Post Mark:
Dados Técnicos/Technical
Data
Valor dos Selos/Stamps
Value: set of four stamps of 1.50, 2.50, 3.50 and 4.50 Patacas
Folhas Miniatura com quatro
séries/Minisheets with four sets of stamps
Valor do Bloco/Souvenir
Sheet Value: 10.00 Patacas
Desenho/Design: Wong Leung
Chung
Data emissão/Issue date: 10.10.2011
Impressor/Printer: Beijing,
PSPH
Impressão/Print: Offset
Lithography
Papel/Paper: Paper with
Security Fibers
Picotagem/Perforation: 13 x
13.33
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