POSTCARD N.185 - CHINA.

Postcrossing Postcard sent on the 8th June; received on the 9th July 2025.

Postcard image: Mount Everest under a stary sky - Shigatse, Tibet, China

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A very nice Postcrossing postcard with beautifull stamps 谢谢 Lili.

Postcrossing is really fun. Yes, I don't use it that much, because my efforts are more directed at my cover collection, but receiving a normal postcard illustrated with a picture of a far off place (or not that far, for that matter) with nice stamps on it is a very rewarding thing.

On the other hand, receiving a promotional postcard cut from a thin paper magazine or with an image of a product, or from a hotel or restaurant somewhere, as has happened to me before, is really not my cup of tea.

I like postcards for what they were initially intended to be: little windows into the world, its places, its peoples, its achievements, etc

And Lili's postcard sure fits the bill: Mount Everest by night, under a starry sky. Yes the photo could be better, that bloody lamppost to the left of the image is blowing all the highlights off , but your gaze is still directed at the centre of the image where the unmistakable shape of the Earth’s highest mountain summit is clearly recognizable. 

Strangely, this is not a place that would rank high on my list of places to visit. The images of all the garbage left by climbers and the horrific and stupid queues to attain the summit (not that I would ever try to do it, of course)  really make me think that people are getting stranger by the day.....

anyway, here it is:

Lili used two very beautiful stamps on the cover:

The 200 Chinese renminbi fēn shows Tiandu Peak over clouds, a 1810 m peak in the Huangshan mountains, a UNESCO World heritage Site, located  in the South of the Anhui Province of the People's Republic of China.

The  Stamp is part of an 8 x 200 renminbi fēn issued on 20OCT1997, on the occasion of UPU's 22nd Congress, held in Beijing.

The 3 Yuan stamp is the highest denomination stamp of a 9 stamp set (6 x 1,20; 2 x 1,1,50; 3 Yuan) issued on 15JUN2024, illustrated with views of the Qinling Mountains, a mountain range in southern Shaanxi Province, whose highest peak (Mount Taibai) tops at 3,767 meters.

Sadly I could not trust google translator to clarify the postmark for me, since it gave me different options each time I pointed the camera at it :-).