Dutch Postcrossing Stamps / 荷蘭明信片交換活動郵票

• This is an adapted article from Postcrossing official blog, and published on Postal Service Today, No. 647, November, 2011.
• 本文改寫自Postcrossing官方部落格，並刊載於《今日郵政》第647期（民國100年11月）。

票中票是一種郵票設計的趣味，過去中華郵政也出過幾次，如羅蘭．希爾爵士逝世百年紀念郵票（圖1）其中的黑便士，或是集郵郵票（圖2-1、2-2）中的各式散票和集郵冊。上個月（十月）14日，荷蘭郵政（PostNL）出了一套有「票中片」的郵票（圖3），以推崇Postcrossing國際明信片交換活動（請另見今日郵政637、643期介紹），可說是郵票設計的創新。該套郵票針對固定、長期的用郵人設計、發行，除荷蘭明信片玩家（Postcrosser）主動使用該票外，世界各地的玩家也紛紛向荷蘭會員們發出「希望收到這套郵票」的需求。故本票一方面表現荷蘭郵政的活潑，另一方面也提昇了荷蘭明信片交換玩家的層次。

圖1：郵票發明人羅蘭． 希爾爵士逝世百週年郵票	圖2-1：集郵郵票1	圖2-2：集郵郵票2

圖3：荷蘭Postcrossing郵票

本套票由荷蘭明信片交換玩家雷蒙推動，他是阿姆斯特丹的中學老師，投入Postcrossing三年多，寄收明信片共達八百多張，在他長期與荷蘭郵政交涉後，終於將自己的興趣與郵票發行結合。荷蘭郵政委託史東兄弟工作室（Stone Twins）設計，將各種風景明信片融合進郵票，展現出旅遊觀光時給朋友捎個問候的明信片傳統，散落的明信片又像是一早開門看到腳踏墊上郵差剛投遞來的樣子。面額為呼應明信片交換活動，分為歐洲區與世界各地兩種，邊欄也直接加印了「優先處理」（Prioriity）籤條，便利用郵人直接貼用。

荷蘭郵政於15日在海爾德蘭省的阿珀爾多倫（Apeldoorn）郵展（Postex）辦理郵票發行首日活動，除了請郵票設計者解說設計理念，還請到了Postcrossing的創辦人保羅（Paulo）向郵展與會者介紹國際明信片交換計畫，保羅也受贈編號第一號的郵票（圖4），並當場寄出明信片。除此之外，荷蘭郵政還辦理了一個明信片寄送比賽，首獎為五百歐元的旅遊基金，對於鼓勵用郵和文字書寫，應會有不錯的效果。

目前Postcrossing已經有將近二十六萬會員，遍佈全世界197個國家、地區，寄達將近九百萬張明信片。荷蘭在Postcrossing中有一萬八千多名會員，已寄了77萬張明信片出國，為寄出片數第四多的國家。臺灣目前也有一萬七千多名會員，寄了32萬張明信片到世界各地，排名第七。希望未來也有一天，中華郵政可以注重這樣的市場，發行這種有趣的郵票，讓眾多的「片友」可以使用這種精緻可愛的「國家小名片」，讓一萬七千多名片友為臺灣發聲。

圖4：郵票設計者葛瑞之．史東（Garech Stone）致贈編號第一號的郵票給保羅（Paulo）

• Postcrossing官方部落格報導一、報導二。
• 圖1、2取自郵票寶藏。

TW-300000 / 臺灣三十萬！

TW-300000
Originally uploaded by Dodd Lu

From: Taipei, Taiwan
Date: 7 to 17 May, 2011
Sender: Dodd
To: Agnieszka Ujma, Warsaw, Poland

寄自：臺灣臺北市
日期：2011年5月7日至17日
寄者：Dodd
收件人：波蘭華沙阿格尼斯卡．威瑪

Taiwan reached 300 thousandth of the Postcrossing ID, and I was the lucky guy to get it. In fact, I did not think to join the number fight until I accumulated 5 send-postcard quota about one week ago because I was too busy to write any postcard. When the number was close, I got  9 of quota. I thought I must be the one to get this milestone.

Saturday afternoon, many Taiwanese postcrossers stared at their computer screen. Some people joined plurk discussion and another few people talked on facebook club. When I saw someone reported TW-29997X, I thought it was time to draw.

It was so much fun to draw so many postcrossing ID and address at one time. I checked out the 300000^th one first. She liked architecture and the sender's hometown.

I rarely sent the skyscraper Taipei 101 for postcrossing because it was not a common view in Taiwan. But to match this milestone, I thought Taipei 101 is a good choice for the receiver's interests. It was the modern representative of my lovely Taipei. Do you think I made a good choice?

國際明信片交換（Postcrossing）的臺灣三十萬號在五月上旬抽出，十天後順利寄到。原本我跟特別號就沒啥緣份，而且幾次為了留額度抽特別號還讓自己步調變慢，所66666號後，我就決定不跟了。只是這次剛好發懶，一週前開始累積了五個額度，到了要到號時，居然有九個額度，那我絕對是勢在必得了。

星期六下午，大家聽聞快要到號的消息，紛紛在電腦前等著抽號。有人在噗浪上，有人在臉書上即時報號。快到的前五十號，稍微卡了大概二十分鐘，接著有人報了七十幾號，我就覺得可以出動了。刷的一口氣抽了下去，果然毫無失手，三十萬前後七個都到手了。

一口氣抽一堆實在很過癮，不過後續寫片可辛苦了，好在週六抽出還有週日可以慢慢消化。我先把挑三十萬號出來檢查。是位波蘭女生，喜歡建築，也接受寄件人的家鄉風光，所以我挑了臺北一零一。

我很少寄臺北一零一的明信片，摩天大樓並不是臺灣的都市基調，不過要搭配這個三十萬號的里程碑，還有對方的興趣，「驚豔101次的臺北天空」倒是個不錯的選擇。或許臺北一零一對外縣市的朋友沒什麼意義，不過這就是我的故鄉臺北城，也是我為三十萬號精選的明信片。

每個人心中都有適合特別號的片子，下次如果你抽到特別號，你要選什麼來配呢？

Third Taiwan Postcrossing Meetup / 第三次臺灣Postcrossing聚會

Taiwan postcrossing community held the third meetup on 23 April 2011. 23 postcrossers attended the meetup. Everyone enjoyed a day trip arranged by Taiwan Postcrosser Club on Facebook and National Taiwan University Philately and Penpal Association (NTU PAPA).

Because most of postcrossers in Taiwan live in Taipei, the capital city in the north of the island, it was not easy to organise an activity out of the city, and this discouraged some postcrossers in the south. To give everyone equal opportunity, the organiser of the meetup designed a day trip and hired a coach to take Taipei postcrossers to Taoyuan and to pick up other attendees from south at the Taoyuan Railway Station. The day trip consisted of visiting Taoyuan mail processing centre, a lighthouse sightseeing (the lighthouse was on the stamp issued last summer), the farmer cuisine lunch, and sharing postcards in the farmhouse.
The first stop of the trip was visiting the mail processing centre. It was the first time for the post company hosting this kind of internet base club. But with good communication in advance, the post company let us learn a lot in the centre. Everyone was so excited at seeing the backstage of the post office because every postcrosser was postal service heavy user. The amount of the postcards was a minor in the postal system and postcards were usually deal with hands, not by machine, though.

Chunghwa Post Company established five mail processing centres, Taipei, Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung in 2000. Each centre cost the company NT$2 billions. The centres deal with ordinary post, while express posts go through local post offices directly. Therefore, all machines did not work on the meetup Saturday. Luckily, the Taoyuan Centre arranged a machine test. There were Culler Facer Canceller (CFC), Optical Character Reader / Letter Sorting Machine (ORC/LSM), Flat Sorting Machine (FSM), A/O Sorting Machine (AOSM), Parcel Sorting Machine (PSM), Material Handling System (MHS), and Management Information System (MIS).

The coach headed to a sunflower farm after the processing centre. Everyone enjoyed the lunch before going to Baisha Cape lighthouse. The lighthouse was the second tallest one in Taiwan. It was the historic site on Taoyuan county heritage list. The post company issued a set of lighthouse stamps last summer, and it was one from the set. The post company also issued a new postal card and the postage mark was it, too.

After all sightseeing, all postcrossers were ready to share postcards. There were too many things to do in the rest of three hours. They sold and bought nice stamps, exchanged postcards, printed date mark on the souvenir postcards, appreciated others postcards, passed and signed postcards, and talked, talked, talked.

Three hours happy time flew fast. No one had time to go to the flower field and it was time to go home.Hope to see you in the next meetup in Taiwan, and wish to have another meetup soon.

臺灣明信片交換社團在2011年四月23日舉辦了第三次聚會，共有23位玩家與會。透過臉書「臺灣Postcrosser明信片交換玩家社」與國立臺灣大學集郵筆友社的安排，每個人都度過了愉快又充實的一天。

因為多數的臺灣明信片交換玩家都住在臺北，所以要把聚會辦到臺北之外略有難度，前兩年的聚會儘管有中南部的朋友，最後也都還是辦在臺北。這次聚會的主揪特別費心把活動辦大，包了一輛遊覽車辦一日遊，終於把臺北人載出市區，也順利的吸引更多外縣市的片友。聚會行程有：參觀桃園郵件處理中心、民國99年版燈塔郵票主角之一白沙岬燈塔，最後於向陽農場花田小屋分享、交流明信片。

遊覽車在接到所有與會者後，第一站是桃園郵件處理中心。雖然風景明信片的處理多以手銷為主，和郵件處理中心中的機器關係不大，但是由於每位Postcrossing明信片玩家都是郵務的重度使用者，所以能夠一窺郵局的後臺秘密，大家都非常興奮。事前聯繫時，中華郵政公司表示是第一次有網路社團洽詢參觀，正因為是第一次，所以我努力扮演好認真的網友，跟郵政公司再三確認，讓每位片友都賓至如歸，也對郵務更加了解。

中華郵政公司於民國89年斥資新臺幣近百億成立了五間郵件處理中心（臺北、桃園、台中、台南、高雄），主要處理普通函件與包裹。因此聚會的週末日子，並沒有運作。不過處理中心特別安排了作業員進行測試，讓每位片友觀摩到郵件處理的流程。郵件在進到處理中心後，先經過分類理信銷票機CFC銷戳分類，再到光學辨識分揀機OCR按照郵遞區號分揀，一小時就可以處理完三萬件的郵件了。包裹類的郵件，則是在下一樓分揀，經過人工鍵入郵遞區號後，會以輸送帶送上傾斜式(Tilter)轉盤，再分到四十格集貨區。分揀完畢再沿著滑道滑入一樓的箱框裝載系統，送上籃車完成整個流程。每位片友對於郵件在機器中咻咻咻的運作，都驚嘆不已。除了找到自己家鄉的信件分揀格，也不斷地拍照、留念。一個小時的簡報、參觀時間一下就過去了，每個人都意猶未盡。
不過不管在怎麼沉浸在郵局中，也要趕往下個行程。大家先在農場用過農村風味餐後，先去欣賞白沙岬燈塔，這是全臺第二高的燈塔，也是民國99年版燈塔郵票的主角之一，更在當時被選為郵政明信片的郵資符誌，因此參觀這座燈塔，是個很棒的選擇。可惜事前沒有確認過參觀方式，沒有預約到團體入園，大家就只能在外圍欣賞拍照。

但也好在在白沙岬少耽擱了一下，接下來的重頭戲才能順利趕完。接下來就是各片友期待的交流時刻了。搭配餅乾與向日葵花下午茶，大家把想要出清的空白明信片拿出來交換，領取紀念明信片、加蓋日期與地址戳，欣賞他人的收藏、販賣購買可愛的郵票，分享明信片購買資訊、寄收明信片甘苦談等等。最刺激的就數最後壓軸的明信片傳簽活動，所有的片友座位上，依序傳簽所有人的聚會明信片，還有要寄給外國Postcrosser的PC官片，既熱鬧又有效率。

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• Nisan Design sponsored the meetup by many sets of their postcards. Thank Nisan.
  尼森設計贊助了本聚會數套明信片。感謝！
• 關於郵件自動化處理，可參見中山大學公共事物管理研究所民國91年，林鉛平碩士論文：《郵件處理自動化管理策略之研究》。
  For more information about automation of mail post processing in Taiwan, please refer to this master thesis from National Sun Yat-sen University. (in Chinese)
• 其他聚會記錄 Other attendee's Blog：艾希絲妮文件一、二。
• 與會者的相簿 Photo Albums：Wei-siang Jhan、Eric Deng、小田、杰哥臉書（限好友）。
• 關於主辦本次網聚的記錄。

Noah's Dove / 洪水過後

JP-154061
Originally uploaded by Dodd Lu

From: Taipei, Taiwan
Date: 17 to 22 March , 2011
Sender: Sinikka, Tokyo

寄自：臺灣臺北市
日期：2011年3月11日到22日
寄者：東京中央區 Sinikka

This is the first Japanese postcard I receive after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami (10 days after the quake). Although I do not know the sender, the postcard still moves me. It's like the Dove which brought the Olive back to Noah's Ark. Everything is all right there in Japan, and the world is still turning.

I know that most damage was not caused by the quake but by the tsunami. The sea in the postcard looks so peaceful. No one can imagine that it brought such a big catastrophe. I hope that the radiation problem is solved sooner, and Japan back to the normal sooner.

The world is with all Japanese. We pray for Japan.

這張是日本東北大地震後收到的第一張日本明信片（震後十天）。雖然我不認識寄件人，不過從近災區（東京）收到報平安的信，有種微微的感動。就好像鴿子帶著橄欖枝回到諾亞方舟一樣，告訴你眾人均安，世界一切安好。

地震其實不是災害的主因，是海嘯才席捲了沿海地帶。圖案是千葉的勝浦灣，海面是如此的平靜，顏色是多麼暖和。誰知這片海會帶來殘酷的水，再帶走這樣多的性命。不論接下來的輻射災害最終如何解決，我相信人們都會更加懂得與自然相處之道。天空終究會出現彩虹。

也祝日本早日恢復。頑張って！日本！

Shortest Travel Time of Postcrossing Postcard / 友情登錄，最速寄達

TW-271065
Originally uploaded by Dodd Lu

From: Taipei, Taiwan
Date: 11 March , 2011
Sender: Dodd
To: Wei-Siang Jhan, New Taipei

寄自：臺灣臺北市
日期：2011年3月11日
寄者：Dodd
收件人：新北市詹WS

This postcard was registered on the same day I sent it.

It usually taked two or three days to send a postcard to another Taiwanese postcrosser in Taiwan. So if I got the address on Thursday or Friday, it would take two days longer and reach after the weekend. So when I got this address, I was not quite happy. However, I laughed out after checking the receiver's name.

He was the younger classmates in my university club, Penpal and Philately Association (PAPA). I sent him a message on Facebook then he registered it earlier than I went out to mail it.

這幾天到片很順暢，一連到了三四張明信片，累積到今天下午才有空來抽。以這樣的額度，我想應該會抽中臺灣的同胞，果然第一張就是。一般臺灣島內郵遞，大約是隔天到過兩天可到，不過近期明信片似乎常常多一天，因此星期四或五抽到臺灣人，幾乎就註定要多兩天週末時間才會到了。因為少了趕截郵的壓力，加上可以寫中文比較輕鬆，所以就先擱著繼續往後抽。

等所有的額度都抽完了，一一檢視抽到的人。哈！這位臺灣人是集郵筆友社的學弟哩！我到臉書寫了個短訊給它，才剛傳好圖片，他就登錄了。創下了Postcrossing的0天記錄。（雖然是投機的方式得到的記錄。）

詹學弟最近看來很沈迷於攝影，還經營個攝影部落格，所以我挑了這張2008年臺博百週年攝影比賽的金獎給他。有時候比賽金獎不在於圖像記錄，還有一些是情感和美感成份，因此這張雖美但傳達較少「博物館」意象，我不太知道該如何對外國人解說。所以金牌獎還是留給在玩攝影的台灣人啦。有空多去逛逛博物館呀，學弟！

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我寄完信回頭寫這篇時，才發現前一篇學弟有留言，更想收原圖卡。我還說被我抽到再寄一張給他。Orz真是挑錯片了。真抱歉。

Traditional Chinese Stationery / 觀：文房四寶

↑ 明 嘉靖 彩漆雲龍筆 Colored Cloud Dragon Writing Brushes Imperial Dragon Fragrance Ink Stick 明 隆慶 龍香御墨 →

The postcards I sent are all written by hand. Thus, handwriting in postcard exchange is important. When we talk about writing, we can not miss out stationery. We now write with a pen or a ball-pen. However, Chinese has special traditional stationery, brush, ink, paper, and inkstone,  which we call four treasures of the study.

I went to a stamp dealer shop last September and found a set of maximum cards which I like very much, National Palace Museum postcards of traditional Chinese Stationery. They were issued by the post office in 2000.

While we could not have the treasure in the museum, we could have the same treasure in a stamp dealer's shop. Although my stationery is not very high class, those nice stationery was not used and was kept for ages. No one uses them.

← 宋 哥窯 青瓷蟾蜍硯 Celadon Toad Inkstione Clear Heart House Calligraphy Paper 宋 蔡襄 澄心堂紙 ↓

每一張我寄出去的明信片，都是用心書寫的成果（畢竟很可能是一趟旅程給朋友唯一的土產紀念品）。因此書寫在明信片交換中扮演了非常重要的角色。我自認字寫得並不漂亮（倒是被形容為「秀氣」幾次），不過寫多了還是會在文具上找點花樣，像是用 玻璃筆，或是找復古的玉兔黃桿原子筆等（我還沒到假文青那樣愛用鉛筆）。然後我也把「文具」這個選項加進我的收件清單，期待有人寄文具明信片給我。

2010年夏末，我在牯嶺街的郵幣社翻到一包原圖卡，裡面有三張國立故宮博物院明信片，主題分別是筆、墨、紙，顯然少了一張。所以老闆很隨興的讓我開個價，讓我輕鬆決定帶它們回家。年底我又去了一趟郵幣社，沒想到翻到了「硯臺」，隨即再講個價，湊齊一套。頭一次得到筆墨紙後，只把墨碇寄給一位想要「博物館收藏」的朋友，沒想到買齊全套後，陸陸續續抽到有在蒐集筆與想收原圖卡的朋友，三張分別在一週內就統統寄出去了。

這套明信片是郵局發行的預銷首日原圖卡，因此很容易就找到發行的資料了，明信片上也有很清楚的物件名稱，四件兩兩一組分別是宋、明兩代，正是中國文藝氣質最為濃郁的年代。我或許一輩子都用不到這樣雅緻的文具，不過這套文房四寶集成最終也沒人用掉。我也沒有古人的文采足以寫出什麼留名千古的文章，不過發一篇網誌傳遞這些文化瑰寶，倒還是個舉手之勞。（也不曉得網路伺服器上的資訊可以留存多久，每每欣賞傳世古物都會對現代科技有如此之感。）

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Brush, Ink, Paper, Inkstone. 筆墨紙硯依序寄往以下地點：

From: Taipei, Taiwan Date: 4 to 11 January , 2011 Sender: Dodd To: Örn in Reykjavík, Iceland	寄自：臺灣臺北 日期：2011年1月4日至11日 寄者：Dodd 收件人：冰島雷克雅維克的歐恩
From: Taipei, Taiwan Date: 22 to 30 September , 2010 Sender: Dodd To: Ariana in Kesklinn, Estonia	寄自：臺灣臺北 日期：2010年9月22日至30日 寄者：Dodd 收件人：愛沙尼亞塔林的安麗阿娜
From: Taipei, Taiwan Date: 4 to 11 January, 2011 Sender: Dodd To: Chengqing in Fuzhou, China	寄自：臺灣臺北 日期：2011年1月4日至11日 寄者：Dodd 收件人：中國福州的王成慶
From: Taipei, Taiwan Date: 5 to 10 January, 2011 Sender: Dodd To: Yang in Taoyuan, Taiwan	寄自：臺灣臺北 日期：2011年1月5日至10日 寄者：Dodd 收件人：臺灣桃園縣桃園市的楊

2010 Postcrossing Personal Conclusion / 國際交換明信片年度總結

2010 was a year with rapid growth.

I sent 391 postcards to 56 countries and received 385 ones from 52 countries. My country ranking rose from thirtyish to 7^th. This was the only accomplishment I have only achieved in the year.

We organised the second Taiwan national meetup in April. Then we set up a facebook group for gathering Taiwanese postcrossers. At the end of the year, we had a Christmas postcards exchange on the group. There were about 80 people attending the event. Although comparing with the number of Taiwanese member (13K), it is a small group. Let's wish a bigger group next year.

We have postcrossing contest hold by the National Taiwan University Philately and Penpal Association (NTUPAPA). The contest is still ongoing. There are many big prizes and those who join the contest may attend the 50^th anniversary of NTUPAPA philatelic exhibition in May or June.

←Postcards I sent / 明信片寄達國家

Postcards I received / 明信片來自國家→

2010年是個快速成長的年度。

我寄達391張明信片到56個國家，收到52個國家寄來的385張明信片。國際明信片交換的臺灣排名，從三十幾名晉升到第七名，算是這一年來唯一的成就吧。我可能過於認真在寄收明信片，導致沒進行什麼正事。不過就跟明信片有寄有收一樣，人生就是有得有失。

接著來報告一下明信片圈圈的一些事：

四月份我們舉辦了臺灣第二次聚會，雖然我沒參與，不過有詳細的記錄。而為了聯絡大家，在聚會前夕成立了一個臉書的社團：臺灣Postcrosser明信片交換玩家。雖然平時的討論並不是非常熱烈，也沒什麼宣傳，但是也慢慢募集到了兩百多位社員（和全台灣一萬三千多名會員相比還是很少）。年終的耶誕明信片交換活動，也有將近八十位朋友參加，算是小有號招力了。

同樣也在年末，明信片交換的官網小郵差受Shui之邀來到臺灣了。小郵差的臺南遊記突然就出現在官網上，而Shui精緻的圖說，引來眾多網友和片友的讚譽，著實幫臺灣打響了知名度。感謝Shui。（我有搶到頭香留言）不曉得哪位臺灣會員會成為第一位被聚光燈照到，成為官網網誌的報導對象呢？

最後提一下仍在進行的明信片交換比賽，由國立臺灣大學集郵筆友社主辦。有興趣的朋友依舊可以參加，獎項豐厚，還可參與五、六月份的集郵筆友社五十週年郵展，意義非凡。

（以上年度記錄，如有闕漏敬請補充、指教）

Words and Legends / 字的故事

I'm going to tell a legend to Karolina for return of her two stories. Base on her interests of postcard theme, I choose calligraphy art of traditional Chinese culture. This postcard is from National Taiwan University Faculties, Staff and Students Union Exhibition of Traditional Chinese Art. This year is the fourth time of the exhibition.

Traditional Chinese characters are truly treasures of east Asia. There are many races using them to write their spoken languages. Some races even have derivation characters for their own languages.

Legend of character creation is like this:

Cangjie, (pronounced like Ts'ang-chieh) was the saint who created Chinese characters. In the legends, he had four eyes and there are two pupils in each. This is usually one special feature of saints. He was the history keep officer of the Yellow Emperor. After unifying China, the Emperor needed to remember more things. So he was not satisfied with 'rope knot tying' method, and asked Cangjie to solve this problem.

One day, Cangjie thought of this issue along the riverside. A phoenix flew by and dropped a stick with one animal footprint. While He was wonder what animal made the print, a hunter walked by and told him, 'I can recognise all animals by their footprints'. The idea came into Cangjie's mind. Yes, he could use lines to record everything's feature stroke by stroke.

According to a history book, after he created characters, it rained millet from the heaven and ghosts cried at late night. It is because the nature could not hide its secret and the ghosts could not transform freely. People can write to record and describe.

The Chinese characters transformed several times. The fonts we use nowadays are similar with the ones our ancestors used 2,000 years ago. However, mainland China simplified characters in 1950's and now uses different fonts from Taiwan. We Chinese Taiwanese now still use traditional Chinese while Chinese in China use non-traditional.

The couplet is read like this:

The scenery of the country is good everywhere.
The rain and dew wash everything to a new look.

為了回報卡羅琳娜的兩個故事。我依據他交換明信片網站中的檔案，挑了中華傳統文化中的書法片給他，預計向他訴說「倉頡造字」的故事，以及中文各式字體與簡化的分合。這張片子是國立臺灣大學第四屆師生金石書畫聯展的作品，本年度展覽名稱為「墨筆輕描山水綠、銀鉤遠掛夕陽紅」。

漢字在東亞文化圈中，實實在在是個文化瑰寶，除了漢族使用外，還有許多不同的民族使用，也有民族自行衍生出類似的體系。然而文字的生成在中國是有故事的：

傳說漢字是由一位名叫作「倉頡」聖人發明的。根據記載，倉頡有四隻眼睛，每個眼睛裡有兩顆瞳孔，通常都是聖人才有此異像。他是上古時代黃帝的史官，黃帝在統一中國後，感到結繩記事的不足而命他想辦法解決。有一天倉頡在河邊苦思解決之道，遠處飛來一隻鳳凰，從牠嘴中落下一件物品，是個帶有獸爪印的東西。他正好奇這是什麼動物留下的，剛好有位路過得獵人就告訴他，他可以依據這個足跡來判斷各種動物的種類。這件事啟發了倉頡，他想到可用線條來表現萬物的樣貌，如此即可記事。

當倉頡造好字時，《淮南子·本經》中記載：「天雨粟，鬼夜哭。」原因在於造化不能藏其秘，故天雨粟；靈怪不能遁其形，故鬼夜哭。

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本片同時於官方交換活動中寄出。This postcard was also sent for postcrossing official card.

From: Taipei, Taiwan Date: 26 May to 4 June , 2010 Sender: Dodd To: Beatriz in Viseu, Portugal

寄自：臺灣臺北 日期：2010年5月26日至6月4日 寄者：Dodd 收件人：葡萄牙維蘇的碧翠絲

Legends from the sea / 飄洋過海的傳奇故事

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Originally uploaded by Dodd Lu

From: Kraków, Poland
Date: 8 to 21 May, and
           25 May to 2 June, 2010
Sender: Karolina

來自：波蘭克拉科夫
日期：2010年5月8至21日及
            5月25日至6月2日
寄者：卡羅琳娜


Last month, I received a postcard of sailing from a Polish inland city. After I checked the Wikipedia, I found that it was the former capital of Poland and the European Capital of Culture for the year 2000.

I appreciated the postcard so much not only because the theme I like but also the great job the sender had done. The sender, Karolina, tried to find the postcard to match my interests and showed me the culture by telling me a local legend. She was new to postcrossing, so she was keen to write me another postcard to tell me another story . Therefore, I got the second postcard and another story.

Here are the two legends in brief by Karolina:

• The first story: The Pigeons and the "Encouragement" Message, 

Long time ago, Cracow was often target of enemies' attacks. During one of siege townspeople last their will to fight and hope to win. They were hungry and tired so they started to catch even pigeons but soon number of those birds started to lower, so hunting them became prohibited. Townspeople thought of giving up. Then one brave men sneaked out of the city and took six pigeons with him. Every bird had different colour. Couple of days later first bird returned to town with a message, 'Reinforcements will come in six days. From now on every day people saw a new pigeon with a message, '... five days... four days... ' In final day to  town arrived white bird but no one read the message. People believed strong that rescue will come on time so they started to fight and they struggle so hard that they won. After that, they finally read the message and they were dumbfounded because it said, 'Reinforcements were stopped, surrender the city!'

• The second story: Wawel Dragon,

Long time ago, there was a dragon living near King's castle. The dragon except for animals ate also young girls. King was afraid of his beloved daughter. He told to knights that the one who'll kill the dragon will receive beautiful princess as wife and half of the kingdom as reward. Many tried but dragon killed all of them. The poor shoemaker called 'Dratewka' made a sheep filled with sulphur. The dragon ate it and burned his throat. He tried to lessen pain and drank so much water from Vistula, Wisła in Polsih, River, that he splitted. Dratewka of course received his reward.

As what you may think, these are very very brief versions because the place of a postcard is so limited. Please use your imagination to expand the stories. Anyone who is interested in the second one, please look up the Wikipedia for more detail. Those who want to check out the King's castle and the river, please check out another postcard at the bottom which I received from Poland before.

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Originally uploaded by Dodd Lu

上個月從波蘭的一個內陸都市寄來了一張揚帆的明信片，當時還想說怎麼來了個與當地不相關的片子。不過背面美麗的文字，卻讓我極為驚豔。一張寬幅的明信片，擠進了320多個字，敘敘道來關於波蘭的故事。（當天雖然收到兩張片子，但是99%的字都在這張上了。）

圖片的主題是配合我的興趣特地挑的，然後寄件人卡羅琳娜和我分享了一個當地的傳說。然後又說他是「交換明信片的新手」，所以可以寄片的額度很少，想要再寫一片給我，順便再跟我分享另一個故事。於是乎，我又收到第二張片子，一樣也是以配合我的興趣所選的海岸圖樣。我查了一下維基百科關於這個波蘭的內陸都市，沒想到他是波蘭故都，還是千禧年歐洲文化之都。我想和我分享故都傳奇，正是一種文化展現的方式吧。下面把小小的片子捎來的故事略為改寫翻譯。

故事都是這樣開始的，很久很久以前...

• 故事一：鴿子帶來的訊息

克拉科夫一直都是敵人想要取下的要塞。在某一次圍攻中，市民們靠著想要贏得最後勝利的意志撐下來。然而在頑強的抵抗中，能吃能喝的都被消耗一空，於是人們開始抓飛進城裡的鴿子。很快的，鴿子的數量也減少到難以捕捉了。大家只好先立個禁止補鳥的公約，然後開始考慮投降的事。

就在大家討論到底該如何與包圍在外的敵軍交涉時，有位勇士偷偷帶著六隻不同顏色的鴿子溜出了克拉科夫城。沒幾天第一隻鴿子飛回城裡了，還帶了個消息：「援軍再六天就會到了。」接下來的每一天，都有一隻不同顏色的鴿子飛回城裡，也帶著一樣的消息「...五天...」、「...四天...」、「...三天...」。城裡的人們士氣愈來愈高昂了，紛紛摩拳擦掌開始期待著再過兩天的大反攻，和援軍來個裡應外合。第六天，飛來了一隻白鴿子，想必這就是攻擊的信號了，城門一開，轟的一聲大軍就殺了出去。由於大家都在等著援軍到來，所以死撐活撐也要把敵人打個落花流水，絕對不能讓援軍白跑一場，更不能讓援軍看到自己疲弱的樣子。經過了數場鏖戰，沒想到援軍還沒到，克拉科夫城的將士們就得勝了。這時候，大家才想到回城裡看看那隻白鴿子帶來的消息。

上面這麼寫著「救援行動終止了，請投降避免傷亡！」

• 故事二：瓦維爾的龍

瓦維爾有一隻邪惡的龍，住在國王的城堡附近。這隻惡龍會破壞整個農村、吞噬牲畜，殺害村民、掠奪他們的家園，更甚者是喜歡吃年輕的女孩。國王不但懼怕惡龍欺凌他的子民，更怕自己摯愛的公主也會淪落龍口。因此只好求助於英勇的騎士們，他發出公告說：「不論是誰，只要可以打敗惡龍，將可以娶公主為妻，並且馬上獲得一半的王國。」那知惡龍實在太過強大了，眾多的騎士前仆後繼都鎩羽而歸，王國中的女孩還是一個接著一個犧牲。

有一天，有個窮鞋匠德拉特瓦 (Dratewka) 看到這個公告，馬上決定要接受這個挑戰。他做了一隻填滿硫磺的羔羊娃娃，並放在惡龍躲藏的洞穴口。惡龍出洞後，果然馬上吃了這隻假羔羊，因為生吞活剝的關係，連硫磺也吞下肚子裡。這讓牠非常地口渴，轉頭向維斯瓦河找水喝。但是，儘管喝了一半的河水還是沒法平息胃痛，因此惡龍又繼續喝個不停。最後，牠終於被滿肚子的水撐破肚皮炸開了。國王於是兌現承諾，讓小鞋匠德拉特瓦娶了美麗的公主和掌管一半的王國。王國裡沒了惡龍，小鞋匠和公主從此也就能過著幸福快樂的日子。

想必你一定可以猜到，這邊都是非常非常精簡的版本。不過篇幅有限，就請發會想像力自己編撰故事的其他細節。對瓦維爾的龍有興趣的朋友，可以看看維基百科裡的介紹。想要看國王的城堡和維斯瓦河的，可以看下面我收到的另一張明信片圖案。

Post Taiwan to the World, Share the Spirit / 分享感動，把臺灣寄出去

The CommonWealth Magazine group launched a new activity of 'smile of 319', 'Post Taiwan to the World' on 25 July. They selected 25 images of Taiwan and printed 100 millions postcards to let everyone to post to the world.

It is no doubt that 25 images cannot represent a country, but they surely show the beauty of Taiwan, passion, hospitality, art, life, tradition, modern, technology, simple and plain, and so forth. I am not used to buy mass printing postcards in chain bookstore, but special kind limited in scenic area. However, I would like not only post these postcards, but also collect them.

Thank all friends for exchanging postcards with me. You make my collection complete. Also wish you who get my postcards of this set like it.天下雜誌群自2001年起開始推廣島內旅遊「微笑319鄉」，接著有319+、跟著娜娜去旅行等等不同的活動，從一開始的單純集章，到串聯微笑商店，逐步發展到發現臺灣的每一個角落。2003年，我在Dodd的單車環島也曾蓋過不少鄉鎮戳章，後來參加網路上的活動、2005年單車行集章，還陸陸續續抽中兩次獎。2007、08年在澎湖看海的日子，甚至還管過兩顆不同的319印章。雖然我不是什麼所謂的「319笑友」，對天下雜誌某些文字走筆也偶有意見，但是看到這活動可以這麼成功，而且持續蓬勃，真的很高興。

7月25日，天下啟動了今年的新系列活動「把臺灣寄出去」，發行了25款臺灣意象明信片讓大家把臺灣寄出去。在寄了這麼多明信片出國後，我相信臺灣絕對不只這25種樣貌，但是這一系列熱情、生動、溫馨、樸實、科技、藝術、現代、復古等等不同感受的明信片，都展現出臺灣之美。我對於各種紀念品店、書店可以看到的大量發行明信片興趣並不高，通常都是在風景區挑選獨門、地區限定的明信片，不過這套的攝影風格，除了讓我真正想寄送出去，還挑起了我收集的欲望。

7月25日本想去故宮參加啟動儀式，但在打電話問了活動的詳情，再加上天候不佳，所以就決定等正式啟動，明信片鋪到各領取點後，分頭去跑關蒐集。然而蝸居在家良久，直到8月14日被人叫到台北車站吃飯，才正式開始我的收集之路。很幸運的是，臺北的觀光點多，鋪貨舖得廣，一天下來，光跑南區就集了15張。當天上噗浪和交換明信片的噗友們聊天，提議交換，也在一週內集滿，唯讀9號魯凱之春(右圖)遲遲等不到有人可以跟我換，終於讓我憋不住到批踢踢319活動討論版跟板友徵。總算，在開始蒐集後兩週，28日完工。為這套純收藏的明信片，寫篇網誌，紀念一下。

God Bless Taiwan, Pray for Taiwan / 天佑台灣

From: Taipei, Taiwan
Date: 21 to 28 August, 2009
Sender: Dodd
To: KHOR KOK KEONG in Ipoh, Malaysia

寄自：臺灣臺北
日期：2009年3月12日至28日
寄者：Dodd
收件人：馬來西亞怡保的KHOR KOK KEONG

This postcard is still on my desk. I'm going to send it later in the morning. But I cannot wait to write my blog to share with the world.

Taiwan was hit by Typhoon Morakot in early August. The atrocious weather brought almost annual amount rainfall in four days and caused flood and mudslide. Thousands of citizens lost their homes and hundreds of folks lost their lives. The rescue team is still in action. We could be hit but can not be beaten. We, Taiwanese, now are calling the world to pray for us by this postcard.

God bless Taiwan, and pray for the victims.

這張明信片還在我的桌上，難得我還沒寄就已經想要寫部落格了。等等郵局一開門，就拿去寄。台灣前一陣子遭逢颱風襲擊，造成五十年來最大的水患。搜救工作直到現在還在持續，復原工作也正如火如荼的展開。我們可以被颱風打擊，但是絕對不會被擊倒。藉著寄送這份明信片，請全世界為我們祈禱。

天佑台灣，為災民祈福。

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22日補記

*這款明信片由最靡印製，數量有限。目前置於誠品敦南與信義店文具館。有國外朋友或有參與Postcrossing的，歡迎踴躍索取，務必熱烈寄送，毋枉製片人的善心。不用要求捐款，也不用發動什麼活動，誠摯的請收件人為台灣祝禱，為災民祈福。

由於這張明信片只有兩個索取點，所以我在我的噗浪(Plurk)相招了交換明信片(Postcrossing)小圈圈的人來集個氣，讓這份心意，從全台灣各地散發出去。我總共索取了十張，一張給了明信片交換論壇上，說已經捐款台灣的香港人，另一張寄給前述那位收片人。

接下來的八張，共有八位片友共襄盛舉。首先，我在八張明信片上簽好名後，寄給第一位。他也在每張簽名，拿一張寫上他想講的話，寄給國外片友，再把剩下的七張轉寄下去，直到最後一張集滿九個簽名，也寄往國外。參與的人共有艾希絲妮(西屯)、Aru、Anita(鳳山)、color小貓(松山)、rita(泰山)、曾可愛(羅東)、布丁娃娃(汐止)、Janet(屏東)。昨天順利寄明信片時同時發出去，集氣活動正式交棒，希望可以順利達陣。

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寄到了，28日寄到了。
It arrives on 28 Aug. Great!

Silk Belt Cuts the Rock / 涓絲之力

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原由 Dodd Lu 上載

From: Fort Polk South, Louisiana, USA
Date: 4 to 14 May, 2009
Sender: Belinda

來自：美國密西根
日期：2009年5月4至14日
寄者：Belinda

Plunge waterfalls are usually like a silk belt falling high on the riverbed. The white water usually attracts most of the sights. However, not only the water but also the yellow rock background and the travertine terrace make up this whole beautiful picture. The amazing power of water cuts off the hard rock and deposits the flat terrace.

懸谷式的瀑布，總是像絲帶一樣從山谷懸掛而下。白色的水流加上落水的聲音，總讓遊客的目光集中在瀑布上。不過這張大峽谷的明信片，除了白色瀑布外，背景的片片黃石真讓大峽谷的偉大不言自明。再加上瀑潭旁的石灰華階地，真讓人讚嘆水的威力，既能切割岩石也能沉積岩石。

East Side of the Mountain / 山嶺之東

CA-60417
原由 Dodd Lu 上載

From: Calgary, Canada
Date: 30 April to 9 May, 2009
Sender: Pauline

來自：加拿大卡加利
日期：2009年4月30日至5月9日
寄者：Pauline

Banff is the first national park in Canada. I know Banff from the premier of Beyond the Arctic. Canada is not a mountainous country, but Rocky mountains are spectacular enough. The park is about an hour and half driving distance from Calgary. In the big country, people have different feelings of distance. One hour driving is far for Taiwanese, but not for Canadian. It seems they drive to the park quite often. The Banff Mountain Film Festival also shows their love of mountain. Although not a lot of people live around the mountain, mountain is still a good represent image of this country. And I believe that Canadians agree that.

班夫是加拿大第一個國家公園，離卡加利約一個半小時的車程。我是在去年去看征服北極的校園特映會。加拿大並不是一個多山的國家，但是單落磯山脈就夠壯觀了。臺灣雖然小，但是也造就我們的距離感比較小，開車一個小時就已經算遠了。其實我們離山岳很近，有機會應該多多去走走，享受島國山與海的自然風光。

Reading Empower People / 閱讀的力量

DE-330490
原由 Dodd Lu 上載

From: Wetteraukreis, Hesse, German
Date: 25 April to 6 May, 2009
Sender: roedluvan

來自：德國黑森州維特勞
日期：2009年4月25日至5月6日
寄者：roedluvan

This is a postcard of a Christian Saint, Anthony of Padua. He is one of the most beloved saint because he is especially invoked for the recovery of lost things. One of his symbols is book, therefore, he is reading in the postcard. People usually come up with writing when make mention of reading. No matter reading or writing, the reader or the writer look so powerful and beautiful in their own world with great concentration. To write or to get a postcard is not like reading or writing books. But during the short period of a few hundred words, we also become powerful and beautiful.

這張明信片是天主教聖人帕多瓦的安東尼。安東尼守護的人很有趣，是那些丟失物品的人，所以讓他受到廣大的愛戴。而他的象徵聖物是書本，也就是這張明信片中他在閱讀的原因之一。常常和寫作相提並論的，就是閱讀了。不論是振筆疾書，或是徐徐翻動書頁，都有種專注的美感，也有種進到自己世界的權威，讓人靜靜的遠觀而不敢或不忍打擾。寄收明信片雖然和書本不同，不過也有那短短幾百字的時間，讓人進到寫作與閱讀的世界裡。

Bridge as Postcard / 像明信片般連結大陸

TR-17736
原由 Dodd Lu 上載

From: Istanbul, Turkey
Date: 27 March to 4 May, 2009
Sender: Alet

來自：土耳其伊斯坦堡
日期：2009年4月5至15日
寄者：Alet

This Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge and Bosphorus postcard traveled almost 40 days. The bridge is 1,510 m long. Istanbul is 8,423 Kms from Taipei. Although this postcard was from the same continent, it connected two people at the two ends as the bridge connected two continents.

這張博斯普魯斯海峽和第二海峽大橋的明信片旅行了快四十天才到，寄件者前幾天還寄信來詢問到底到了沒。這座海峽大橋，所在的位置，讓它連接了歐亞兩個大陸。而它不僅僅就是這1,510公尺，化身為明信片後，它連結了兩個同處在亞洲兩端，相聚8,423公里的的人。

Lake in the Mist / 迷霧之湖

TW-39037-1
原由 Dodd Lu 上載

From: Taipei, Taiwan
Date: 12 March to N/A, 2009
Sender: Dodd
To: Chenqi in China

來自：臺灣臺北
日期：2009年3月12日至某日
寄者：Dodd
收件人：中國的Chenqi

This postcard was purchased during my Alishan trip in mid January. It was Lake Sisters which was a famouse place of Taiwan in China. I sent to a Chinese in March and emailed him to check whether it arrived or not in April. Unfortunately, it was missing by report on 2 May. The lake was in the deep forest and always in the mist.  Now the postcard of the misty lake would never have been known where it is.

這張阿里山姐妹潭的明信片是在一月中的阿里山之行買的。阿里山在中國也是小有名氣的台灣景點。三月時寄給在杭州的郵友，四月寫信去確認到底收到沒有，直到五月才收到回信否認。這個常年在迷霧中的林中湖泊明信片，命運比在迷霧中還慘，再也沒有人知道它到哪裡去了。

臺北交換明信片網友聚會 / Postcrossing Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009

Postcrossing had started to be popular in Taiwan since last September. The web forum, however, was not a common disgussion place for Taiwanese internet users, so people here did not get to know each other as a club or a group. However, a diligent Dutch mother, who sent the most postcards from Taiwan, sent out a proposal through personal message one by one in March, 2009, and made people going to the forum to see what would happen.

12:00 noon, 18 April, 12 postcrossers met in Taipei Main Station without any detail plan but their favorite postcards. Although most people came from Taipei, there were a man from the northernmost city,Keelung, and a woman from the southernmost county,Pingtung, crossing over 400 km.

They went the food court to have lunch, but that was not important at all. Not untill everyone finished their lunch, someone already took out his/her postcards. Everything happened so naturally. They chatted about the experience of postcrossing, the interactivities with other postcrossers in foreign countries, the place to collect postcards, and so on. And the most important, writing postcards. A souvenir postcard was designed by a American designer who was asked by a Taipei postcrosser not showing up, to commemorate the first meeting in Taiwan.

Everyone wrote the postcards so hard and were very happy. At the end, they went to the post office to mail them out. Wait and see, maybe you will get one of the meeting postcards.

交換明信片自去年(2008)九月，被網友大量轉貼，使得這個活動一下子熱絡了起來。至今臺灣網友已成為第六大會員國家，寄出近五萬張明信片到世界各地。然而由於英語網站的論壇討論區使用與臺灣網友的習慣不同，所以並沒有一個很熱絡的討論社群形成。直到今年三月，台灣第一名的會員，一一向各個會員發送個人訊息，才把大家吸引到論壇去看看到底會有什麼活動。

經過近一個月慢慢的討論，12名會員終於在四月18日正午，在臺北車站聚首。與會者包含北中南的人士，包含基隆、彰化、屏東，跨越了整個臺灣達400多公里，實在是令人感到興奮。大家到二樓美食廣場吃吃喝喝，還沒全部結束，就已經有人自然而然地把明信片拿出來分享。話題也自動展開，包含大家蒐集明信片的經驗、旅遊中的明信片、如何逼迫朋友在旅遊中寄明信片，還有拿出同一套明信片來比較等等。

最重要的，這次有另一位會員為大家找了美國的設計師製作了聚會紀念明信片，可惜因故無法參加，不能詢問其設計過程。大家紛紛努力的寫明信片，興味盎然。最後在大廳的車站郵局，購買油桐花郵資票，投遞明信片，結束了這場充滿意義的網友聚會。

I got my souvenir postcard today. Joanna helped me to mail it. So I did not know what everyone wrote. The message was a surprise, like a three-day time capsule.
今天早上回家攔截了這個聚會明信片，收到了大家寫給我的小留言。雖然當時是當著我的面寫的，但是Joanna藏起來沒給我看到，幫我寄回來。好像一個三天效期的時間膠囊，真是驚喜。

Head of a Man / 人頭島

US-382440
原由 Dodd Lu 上載

From: Michigan, USA
Date: 5 to 15 April , 2009
Sender: Craig

來自：美國密西根
日期：2009年4月5至15日
寄者：Craig

There are nature human heads everywhere in the world. They look up, look side, in the river, in the lake and at the beach. This shapely one in the Lake Superior with those trees crown looks sedate. If it were a real man, he must be a resolute chief.

自然中，到處都有被認做人臉的形象。有的橫臉看天，有的側臉看山，也有看河看海的，這個是看美洲最大的蘇必略湖。這張由已經改名為密西根自然資源部(舊稱保育部)發行的明信片，寫著白人給這塊山崖的名稱「印地安頭」。搭配著島上的高樹，看起來頗有威嚴。

River 'Rings' / 雙橋清音

CN-63349
原由 Dodd Lu 上載

From: Shenzhen, USA
Date: 27 March to 8 April , 2009
Sender: ERICA LIU

來自：中國深圳
日期：2009年3月27日至4月8日
寄者：ERICA 劉

Pabellón Qingyin, uno de los diez lindos paisajes de la Montaña Emei.

This is a UNESCO postcard from south China. The description is in Spanish. I worked out on that for a while. I thought the first two words was the name of the Place and checked all UNESCO list of south China. But I forgot that Chinese like to send postcards of places far away from their place. This postcard is about the place in Sichuan. It is Pavilion Qingyin, which means the pavilion with clear and melodious sound from the river.

這是張聯合國教科文組織認定的世界文化遺產明信片。不過片上的說明居然是西班牙文的，花了我一番功夫查詢到底是哪一個點。前兩個字看起來很像是拼音，我就一直看廣東到底有什麼世界文化遺產的名稱是類似這個拼音的。中國不知道是不是因為明信片出的不多，已經收到幾張離寄件人所在地很遠的明信片。結果重點根本就在最後兩個字--「峨嵋山」，頭兩個字只是這個景點的名稱--清音亭。這個景點是峨嵋十景之一，名字很好聽，就叫作雙橋清音。淙淙河水帶來襲襲涼風，再來個著長袍馬褂之人彈琴於庭中，真是給人幽遠的深意。

As High as It Can Reach / 和大山一樣高

TW-42662
原由 Dodd Lu 上載

From: Taipei, Taiwan
Date: 27 March to 2 April, 2009
Sender: Dodd
To: Lia in the Netherlands

來自：臺北臺灣
日期：2009年3月27至4月2日
寄者：Dodd
給：荷蘭的Lia

I bought this postcard in mid-January when I was in a trip to the south of Taiwan. This picture is about the flower, plum in the mountain Ali. (we call the mountain, Alishan.) I choose this postcard because I saw you sent out some plant postcards. Also, the background is another mountain in Taiwan. It's the highest mountain Yushan, Mt. Jade. It's 3,952 m high and is in the National Park. Of course it is a landmark.

植物花卉的美麗，也是很多明信片蒐藏家的愛好主題之一。一月份去阿里山玩的時候，買明信片的時候，就特別帶了一些高山花卉回來。這張算是我覺得取景取得很棒的一張。阿里山上的冬梅，印襯在玉山主峰上。讓我可以同時介紹阿里山與玉山給外國人。透過角度的差異，梅樹比玉山還高。不過這樣的畫面，讓我想到，只要站的夠高，也就能看得夠遠。況且梅花寒冬開放的精神，拿來比擬玉山的高度，一點也沒有不合適。