The "Tiger Ticket" was first launched yesterday, and post fans lined up to buy it. According to reports, many post fans queued up all night at postal outlets in order to buy tiger tickets for the first time, and some even lined up for four days and four nights. In today's Internet sales in full swing, such scenes have a bit of retro meaning.
Pictured: The 2022 Chinese zodiac stamps are set of two stamps, namely: National Fortune Changlong and Huyun Auspicious, with a full face value of 2.40 yuan. Photo by Xu Cheng
I understand that this is probably the fun of mail fans and collectors: having a paper "tiger ticket" for the first time, enjoying it and enjoying it. Although people have sent fewer and fewer letters, and the actual function of stamps as a voucher for sending letters and payment has quietly faded, as long as stamps are still being issued, there are always obsessive post fans who will buy them quickly, whether just for collection, or for future appreciation.
Two weeks ago, I also had great enthusiasm and participated in Xinhua News Agency's "2021 Memory Chain That Belongs to You" for the first time, which is said to be able to "use the blockchain to leave an eternal digital memorial for the news". At eight o'clock that night, I kept swiping my phone, hoping to get a digital collection of news. According to reports, only 10,000 copies of each set of collections are issued. After more than 10 minutes of repeated refreshes and inaccessibility at the beginning of the year, I finally successfully received 8 sets of digital collections, with the words "Congratulations on your success" and the generation of memory chain posters. The name of the collection, the holder, the distributor, the number of issues, and the number of the collection on the poster are all available, and I feel as if I have a bulging bag in my pocket.
But I was only a little learned, and I didn't quite know what the meaning of the eight pieces of the collection that was supposedly already in my hands was. For example, the tiger ticket snapped up by the post fans: a thin one, a square one, pinched in the palm of the hand, embedded in the stamp album, can be appreciated, can be played, can be seen and touched, no matter what, more at ease; and the blockchain digital collection, existing on the Internet, hidden in the cloud, invisible, elusive, visible, untouchable, how to prove that it is "mine", I, and what can I do with them.
Blockchain, again a digital collection, is new, but it's really unclear what it means and how it will affect our lives. For another example, a "universe" is enough for us earthlings to make brains, infinite time, infinite space, and now there is a "metacosm", the universe and the meta, what exactly it means, and what kind of impact it has on our lives, it is not clear. There are many others, and it seems like an era of a new concept explosion.
New, not necessarily good, but may be good. Tiger tickets can be bought, and tickets to the future can probably only be obtained through continuous learning.
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![Mr. Ding Wenwu, a lover of Qin Cavity, donated precious collections to the Qin Cavity Museum[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)