What is the origin of greeting cards?

Greeting cards originated in the Tang Dynasty.

Traditional Chinese culture places great emphasis on etiquette, which was once the essence of Chinese culture. Much of the content of etiquette is expressed in form, such as greeting cards. In the personal major things or public **** festival before the presentation of greeting cards, a form of solemnity, the second early notification of the other side, with people and their own are convenient. Therefore, since the Han Dynasty, greeting cards as a traditional form has been continued to retain, only the name has changed.

Greeting card early called "name post" to introduce themselves as the main, Western Han Dynasty called "visit", today, VIP meet still say "visit", after the Eastern Han Dynasty called "name prick". "name prick", the word "name prick" is still used in Japan, is our common business card.

With the improvement of printing technology, to the 1990s, New Year's cards have been popular throughout the country. 1991, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued a postal greeting card - postcard with a prize, "the Year of the Monkey in the Nonshen," which is the Chinese stamps motto by the "People's Republic of China Post" to "China's postal service". This was the first set of postal products that changed the inscription of Chinese stamps from "China People's Post" to "China Post". It ended at the end of last year, just after the round.

Later, the greeting card more and more fancy, there is music, three-dimensional, spring, serial, in short, only you can not think of, no you can not buy. For people born in the 1970s, buying and sending greeting cards was an important program at the end of the year.

But since the 1999 campaign to "reduce cards and save trees", the value of greeting cards has gone downhill.

People who responded to the call for environmental protection did not reduce their holiday blessings by not buying cards, and the development of the Internet has opened up a new world for greeting cards.

If we send our blessings online is not less than paper greeting cards, in the face of such an environmentally friendly, convenient and personalized method, why not?