Thanksgiving Mother's Day Stamp Design Meaning

The main design elements of the stamps are "Mother's Flower" carnation flower and heart-shaped pattern, scratching the golden ribbon covering layer of each stamp, can show a blessing of gratitude to the mother. There are four blessing phrases***, namely "Mom, I love you", "Wish mom happiness forever", "Only mom is good in the world", "Thank you, mom! The "mother's love", "I wish you happiness forever", "only mother is good", "thank you mom".

The stamp design uses a pink carnation as the main picture, which expresses the theme of gratitude to mothers in a clear and concise manner. The red carnation symbolizes passion, respect, sincerity and beauty, wishing mothers happiness and health, and also symbolizes the pure, eternal love and sincere gratitude of children to their mothers; the light yellow background symbolizes gratitude for mothers' hard work. The blessing words on the ribbon express the children's heartfelt wishes for their mothers, and the overall color tone and shape of the pattern tend to be warm, creating an atmosphere of gratitude and blessings. Honoring and thanking mothers is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation and an excellent quality that needs to be passed on to all mankind.

From the concept and process, this set of stamps has created three firsts among the documentary stamps issued by China Post: First, it is the first time to use the network to collect the blessing language of the stamps. Before the finalization of the "Grateful Mother" stamps, China Post Group held a collection and selection activity for the blessing phrases used on the stamps, and determined the blessing phrases to be printed on the stamps according to the number of votes, which created a better social atmosphere of "Grateful Mother". Secondly, it is the first time to use the scraping process on the stamps. In the printing process, the set of stamps adopts the printing process of offset printing and partial holographic hot stamping, which is the first time that China Post launches the new variety of "scratching out blessings" stamps. Thirdly, it is the first time that a heart-shaped stamp version is used. In order to better reflect the concept of gratitude and love expressed by the "Grateful Mother" stamps, the large version of this set of stamps has 16 stamps per version; the small version adopts a heart-shaped layout, with 8 stamps forming a "V" shape, which is also the first time that a heart-shaped layout is adopted in the special period stamps issued by China Post. This is also the first time that the heart-shaped format is used in the special stamps issued by China Post. The special format and special creativity interpret the profound meaning of gratitude to mothers.