Macao SAR to Issue New Stamps for Art of TeaThe Postal Services of China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) government will issue a set of new stamps featuring the art of tea on Friday, Carlos Lopes, director of the Postal Services, said at a press conference Wednesday.Entitled "Rituals -- the Art of Tea," the set has four stamps depicting different scenes of tea-related rituals and their face value will be 2 patacas, 3 patacas, 3.5 patacas and 4.5 patacas respectively. Other postal products include a souvenir sheet, the first-day cover and an introduction paper. A total of 750,000 sets of the stamps will be issued. China is regarded as the homeland of tea. The Chinese have a tea-drinking history of 3,000 years. In many places, the art of tea is popular and there is a set of theories on planting, processing, making and tasting tea. |
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