The main ways of spreading ancient official documents in China are as follows: A Hongyan delivers books, B homing pigeons deliver books, C postal station, D bonfire delivers newspapers.

In ancient China, riding a horse was called the post office. According to Oracle Bone Inscriptions's records, there was a post office in Shang Dynasty, and it was further improved in Zhou Dynasty. At that time, there was a post office every 34 miles on the avenue of delivering letters. There are horses in the post station, and horses can be changed in the post station, so that government documents and letters can be passed from station to station.

China's postal system experienced the development of Spring and Autumn Period, Han Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, and gradually declined until the middle of Qing Dynasty, and was replaced by modern postal service.

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1, postal service, also known as postal delivery, evolved from early acousto-optic communication and express mail.

2. The postal service in China has a long history. Since the day when there were human beings, there have been various forms of communication activities. Communication with objects appeared in primitive society, and slave society developed into early acousto-optic communication and postal transmission. In the feudal society, China's postal service had been at the forefront of the world.

3. In ancient China, the post office was an organization that mainly delivered documents, but it was limited to delivering urgent and important official documents, and the delivery mode was mainly light and fast.

4.1In August, 940, Zhonghua Book Company published The History of China Postal Development written by Lou Zuzhi.

5. As early as 558 BC-486 BC, ancient Persia set up a post office, with emergency messengers and post horses on standby. Letters are delivered by courier station by station, and the postal speed is very fast. People called it a relay station at that time.

6. According to Oracle Bone Inscriptions's records, it can be considered that organized communication activities appeared in the period of Yin, Shang and Pan Geng.

7. Generally speaking, the postal communication in China began in the Pan Geng era of Shang Dynasty and ended when 19 12 was abandoned.

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