Special stamps of Yue Opera were issued on May 20

On May 20, a stamp collector in Jinan, Shandong Province showed the extreme postcard of special stamps of "Yue Opera". On the same day, China Post is scheduled to issue a set of three special stamps of "Yue Opera", with the design names of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, Jiujin Girl, Lu You and Tang Wan. The full set of stamps has a face value of 3.60 yuan.

Yueju Opera, with beautiful singing and pleasing appearance, is one of the important representatives of Chinese traditional operas and has been listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists. Yueju Opera originated in Shengzhou, Zhejiang Province, and originated in Shanghai. With its unique charm, Yueju Opera has become a beautiful scenery of Chinese opera. Generations of Yueju Opera have made unremitting efforts to promote the prosperity of Yueju Opera. In the new era, Yueju Opera takes on a new look.

The stamps adopt the traditional Chinese meticulous painting method, with delicate and beautiful pictures, echoing the gentle and elegant artistic style of Yueju Opera, highlighting the spirit of Jiangnan, and combining the elegant background, showing the unique charm of Yueju Opera. The contents of the stamps are selected from three representative operas of Yueju Opera, and the large plate edge decorations are decorated with the ancient stages of Yanxi and Chenghuang Temple in Shengzhou. Yanxi symbolizes that the singing of Yueju Opera originated from the folk tunes and folk songs on both sides of Yanxi. The mountains and rivers are clear and leisurely, and the ileum is softly winding out of Shengzhou; The ancient stage of Chenghuang Temple in Shengzhou is an important place for many famous actors of Shaoxing Opera to report to their parents and villagers, and also a testing platform for performing arts.

The stamps adopt offset printing technology. The exquisite characters and elegant background fully express the exquisite beauty of traditional fine brushwork. In order to enrich the contents of the stamps, the three stamps have designed the colourless fluorescent technology according to different stories. The first "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", after the ultraviolet light shines, butterflies dance, and the scene of the Butterfly Lovers turning into butterflies appears on the paper; The second piece, "Nine jin Girl", shows the image of a wooden bucket after the ultraviolet light, and uses fluorescent content to expand the cultural background of the story; The third piece, "Lu You and Tang Wan", was illuminated by the ultraviolet light, and the two lines of poetry superimposed scenes in the same space at different times in front of us, which made us feel indescribable. The stamps are also designed with micro characters and other printing details.

This set of stamps is designed by Ding Xiaofang and Ding Yang, edited by Wen Wenya, and printed by offset printing technology of Beijing Stamp Factory Co., Ltd.

This set of stamps is sold in designated postal outlets nationwide, philatelic online halls, China Post mobile clients, China Post WeChat Philatelic Mall and WeChat App of China Post Mall for a period of 6 months. In order to display stamp content more richly, China Post will publish digital content through the WeChat applet "China Philatelic Stamp Encyclopedia", which can be viewed using AR function. (Duan Tingting, reporter of Dazhong Daily and Dazhong News, correspondent Cui Pengsen)