Lunar New Year - Year of the Ox

Christmas Island

mini-sheet

1 x 0.55 cents

1 x 1.65 cents

Australia Post continues with its tradition of issuing stamps to celebrate lunar new year, which is the most important of the traditional Chinese festivals.

This lunar new year is the Year of the Ox which begins on 26 January 2009.

The Ox symbolises loyalty and tenderness and is highly respected in traditional Chinese society signifying prosperity through fortitude and hard work. The minisheet of the issue depicts Laozi, a prominent thinker in ancient China. A native of Chu, a southern state in the Zhou dynasty, he served as a keeper of archival records at the court.

The stamps, minisheet and zodiac sheetlet stamps were designed by Dani Poon of Melbourne, who has been commissioned for the complete cycle of 12 designs. Dani was born in China and grew up in Hong Kong, among the cultural sensibilities of legendary Chinese stories and history.

Multicoloured.

Condition: Unmounted-mint/MNH

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