Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Chinese Year of The Pig

September 18th, start of the Chinese New Year. They have the year of the Pig, see my earlier writing and very nice Mini Sheet of Canada. Now a lot of states give issues of stamps, or CTO’s or cinderella’s to celebrate this new year. Also Indonesia will issue some stamps for this Pig Year. However they will not show a pig because in Islamitic lands they find pigs unclean. Now they have a lot of Chinese people in Indonesia, even celebrate the New Year of the Chinese since 2000 as a national holyday. But why stamps for the year of the pig if there is no pig involved? Hope there is a rooster (some like this picture) in that issue, could be, not? Looking forward.

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2 Comments:

At Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 4:30:00 PM PST , Blogger Gulfmann Collection said...

Chinese Lunar New Year 2007 will
starting from February 18, and the
Chinese Zodiac symbol is Pig
on 2007.
please refer to my updated blog,
http://gulfmanncollection.blogspo.com

 
At Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 11:51:00 PM PST , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Of course it's February 18th, just my mistake....
Cees

 

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