The whole country is red

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The whole country is red (Chinese 全国 山河 一片 红, Quánguó shānhé yīpiàn hóng ) is the name of a postage stamp issued by the Chinese Post Office in 1968 to celebrate the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution . Today it is one of the most famous and valuable philatelic collectibles of the People's Republic of China .

history

After the Revolutionary Committees were founded in 1968 in the last provinces of the People's Republic, the Military Administration Committee of the Chinese Ministry of Post and Communication decided to issue a series of commemorative stamps on the subject of "Overall Victory of the Proletarian Cultural Revolution". The postage stamp shows the revolutionary masses under a red map of China. In the foreground a worker is holding a red Mao booklet . There is also the saying “The whole country is a single red area” (全國 山河 一片 紅). The designer was Wang Wei Sheng. The total edition originally comprised 50 million copies in the value bracket of 8 Fen.

The stamp came to the counter on November 25, 1968 and was withdrawn from sale after a few hours. The official reason was that the border with Bhutan , Burma and Mongolia was incorrectly shown on the stamp , but unofficially the main reason was that the island of Taiwan was not colored red. The error was noticed and immediately reported to the Ministry of Post, which ordered the immediate blocking and return of the sale: the people to whom they had already been sold should be found and they should be asked to surrender them, the stocks should be completely destroyed.

According to research, around 500 of these stamps were sold in various parts of the country (mainly in Hunan and Beijing ). The value of the postage today is estimated at the equivalent of 18,000 to 25,000 euros.

See also

literature

  • Xian Su and Ludwig Beyer: The whole country is red , issue 138, pp. 22–26

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Top 13 most valuable postage stamps in the world - China.org.cn. Retrieved June 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ The Cultural Revolutionary Postage Stamp. In: Hotel Villa de Art. October 30, 2008, accessed on June 22, 2019 (German).