POSTCARD N.94 - TAIWAN

Postcrossing postcard sent on the 24th November , received on the 3rd December 2022

Postcard image: black faced spoonbill (Platalea minor)
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Spoonbills are fun to watch. Their rather conspicuous "spoon" makes them quite distinctive and even if  the species portrayed in the very nice postcard  I got from Taiwan , is  confined to eastern Asia, I have on a number of occasions spent some time watching little groups of the species that occurs here - Palatalea leucorodia - in marshes in the south of Portugal (Algarve) or in the margins of the great Alqueva artificial lake in the  centre south (Alentejo) . So thanks a lot  Ying-Han, for  a nice card full of nice birds!

Chou Lan-ping (1926-1971) was a China born, Taiwanese composer,   who wrote several film and series scores in spite of a rather brief life and whose works became rather well known and regarded amidst the Chinese community at large.

On 06JUL2022 the Taiwanese Post issued a set of four 12  NTD stamps dedicated to modern Taiwanese composers. The Stamp design follows the same general concept on all four stamps with a B&W photo portrait of the composer superimposed on a photo of a page of one of his scores.

Further to Chou Lan-ping, whose stamp can be seem on the postcard, the set honours Deng Yu-Shian (1906-44); Hsu Shih (1919-80) and Yang San-Lang (1919-89).

The Postmark indicates that the card was mailed from the Capital - Taipei.