Tianjin Post Museum

Tianjin Post museum is the former site of Tianjin Daqing post office. On February 2, 1897, Tianjin Daqing post office opened its business, becoming the first Daqing post office in China, and issued China's first set of stamps, the Dragon stamps. Today, this European style building is still in good condition.

In the first local postal museum of the Chinese mainland, it is divided into four major exhibition halls, post offices and other communication organization hall, postal hall and philatelic hall. You can see the "rut stone" in the Qin and Han Dynasties, brick paintings in the Tang Dynasty, the "prime minister's Yamen" in the early post of modern postal service, the postal mail carriage in the post of China Post, the postcards in the Qing Dynasty, and the rare ones. The precious works of "Ferrar manuscripts" and "red printing small characters should be one yuan" in the 23rd year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty.

Finally, it can be stamped with a precious and special commemorative postmark.

Tianjin Post Museum

Tianjin Post museum is located at No.111 Jiefang Road, Heping District, with an exhibition area of about 1500 square meters. It is divided into four exhibition halls: "preface hall", "post and other communication organization hall", "post hall" and "philatelic hall". The exhibition content can be divided into five stages from the time span, namely, the ancient post period, the modern post establishment period, the Qing post period, the China Post period, and the people's post period.

Through words, objects, photos and statues, the exhibition hall introduces the historical changes of Tianjin post in more than 100 years, and shows the unique cultural charm of the postal industry.

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Looking at Tianjin in modern China, as the birthplace of China's modern postal service, Tianjin has written many firsts in the history of China's postal service. China's first postal agency, the first postal regulations, the first postal route, the first postal tariff and the first set of stamps were all born here. Now, the completion of Tianjin Post museum will find a place to display, to show, to remember and to commemorate these "firsts". Its completion will continue to write a new glory of China Post.

Tianjin is not only the birthplace of modern Chinese post, but also the postal administration center and postal organization center. On March 9, 1878, with the approval of the Qing government, appointed by Li Hongzhang, governor of Zhili and Minister of Beiyang, and Hurd, British, general tax department of China Customs, the British German of Tianjin customs tax department founded "Tianjin Customs letter house" on March 23 of that year in the public office of Tianjin new customs (now No. 2 Yingkou Road), and began to receive and send public mail at home and abroad. This is the earliest postal machine in China Structure. In July of the same year, China's first set of stamps, the Dragon stamps, was issued to the whole country. On January 11, 1880, the letter house was renamed "Tianjin Customs Post Office". He moved to the building in 1884. On February 2, 1897, it was renamed "Daqing post office". In 1906, the Qing government established the Ministry of post and communication. In 1911, the Ministry of post and Telecommunications took over the post. Since then, the post broke away from the customs and became an independent system. In 1912, "Daqing post" was changed to "Zhonghua post".

Development history

Tianjin Post museum was built on the former site of Tianjin Post Office (now 111 Jiefang Road, Heping District, Tianjin). In history, this European style building was the location of the customs post office and the "Tianjin Post Office of the Qing Dynasty" when the customs tried to open the post office. It was formerly known as the "Tianjin Customs bosida post office" and was the headquarters of the customs post office at that time. "Daqing post Tianjin Office" building is a precious architectural relic in the history of modern China Post and a historical witness of the establishment and development of modern China Post.

On October 9, 2010, Tianjin Post museum will be officially completed and opened. The completion of the post museum can provide a place for stamp collectors to visit and study, and become a new tourist attraction in Tianjin. While shaping the image of Tianjin, the birthplace of modern China Post, it will also further expand the reputation and influence of China post at home and abroad in the unique way of post, and enhance the overall brand image of post.

Collection

The collection of Tianjin Post museum includes "rutted stone" in Qin and Han Dynasties, "brick painting" in Tang Dynasty, "official seal of premier yamen" in the early days of modern post, and "mail carriage" in the period of China Post, as well as a large number of stamps and philatelic products, including the first set of Chinese stamps, dragon stamps and other historical treasures. The exhibition of these cultural relics will make Tianjin Post Museum in the forefront of China in terms of exhibits content and scale. Tianjin Post museum is also the only industrial museum in Tianjin, which will play a positive role in promoting and shaping the postal culture and enhancing the postal brand image.

Ferrar's manuscripts - "Ferrar's manuscripts" are manuscripts left by Ferrar, a German employee of China Customs registry in Qing Dynasty. From 1878 to 1911, the post of Qing Dynasty issued stamps such as big dragon stamps, little dragon stamps, Cixi birthday commemorative stamps, and Panlong stamps. "Ferrar manuscript" is a precious cultural relic in the history of China Post. Its value is immeasurable. After a century of dust, it came to light again in 1991. It was once displayed at the 2003 Mianyang Asian postal exhibition in Sichuan. Two armed police officers guarded it 24 hours with live ammunition.

Red printed small characters should be a round -- the national treasure grade rare post "red printed small characters should be a round" from Beijing. Its four square stamps are known as the "king of China Post". In 1897, shortly after the founding of the Qing Dynasty Post, due to the lack of high face value stamps due to the business of exchange, parcel and price guarantee, the unused three-part stamp duty tickets kept by the Shanghai Customs Registry were temporarily stamped as stamps for urgent use. Among them, 50 stamps with the small character "dangyiyuan" were printed. Later, because the three characters "dangyiyuan" on the face were too small, it was decided to print the large character "dangyiyuan". It is verified that there are only 30 "red printed small characters when one yuan" in the world, and only one old ticket stamped with eight trigrams is handed down.

The ancient "rutted stone" - the "rutted stone" of Jingxing ancient post road in Hebei Province in Qin and Han Dynasties was more than a century earlier than the ancient Roman road; the buttons of Qing postal service with the character "you" represent different levels and division of labor; the old postal passport of Guangxu 24, the letterbox of Qing postal office, the vest with different words of postman and Messenger, the postmark of Qing postal service, and the postmark of Qing postal service Receipt to recipient We can learn why Tianjin became the birthplace of modern China Post

On October 9, 2010, Tianjin Post museum will be officially completed and opened. The completion of the post museum can provide a place for stamp collectors to visit and study, and become a new tourist attraction in Tianjin. While shaping the image of Tianjin, the birthplace of modern China Post, it will also further expand the reputation and influence of China post at home and abroad in the unique way of post, and enhance the overall brand image of post.

Visit information

Address: 109 Jiefang North Road, Heping District

Bus routes: No.50, No.96, no.902, etc

Admission: free, with valid ID card

Note: it is forbidden to take photos and video during the visit

Address: 111 Jiefang Road, Heping District, Tianjin

Longitude: 117.21080221842

Latitude: 39.127573390658

Tel: 022-23310386

Tour time: 2-3 hours

Traffic information: take bus 13, 35, 96, 97 and get off at Chengde Road station; or walk 10-15 minutes from east station.

Ticket information: tickets are free and need ID card registration; if you want to see treasure hall, the ticket is 5 yuan

Opening hours: 9:00-16:00 (closed on Monday)

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