NEW YORK, NY — 邮政服务 (Postal Service) 现已在美国各地邮局发售农历新年系列的最新邮票。
农历新年对世界各地的很多亚裔社区而言都是一年中最重要的节日，庆祝这一节日的群体主要包括中国人、韩国人、越南人、藏族人和蒙古人。
为庆祝狗年而发售的这一系列邮票由现居布鲁克林的亚裔美国艺术家 Kam Mak 设计。
邮票展示了富贵竹与手法精细的小狗剪纸，这一创作出自夏威夷平面设计大师 Clarence Lee 之手。Lee 的动物剪纸设计作品自 1992 年面世以来，在每张邮政服务农历新年邮票上都有出现。
另外，还有以红纸为特色的邮票，上面用书法字体写着代表好运的汉字“福”以及草书汉字“狗”。
之前发售的系列邮票以龙面具、鼓、中国灯笼和烟花为特点。
这是 12 生肖系列的第 11 套特别发售邮票，这一系列将持续至 2019 年，届时将发售猪年邮票。
2 月 16 日开始就是狗年了。
2018 农历新年邮票以一版 12 枚的形式发售。作为Forever邮票（无面额邮票），（这一系列）每一张都将始终等值于当时一盎司平邮的邮费。成版邮票将在邮局和邮政网站 www.usps.com/shop 在线发售。
NEW YORK, NY — The Postal Service now proudly offers the latest stamp in its Lunar New Year series at post offices across the United States.
The Lunar New Year is the most important holiday of the year for many Asian communities around the world and is celebrated primarily by people of Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tibetan, and Mongolian heritage.
The stamp, celebrating the Year of the Dog, was designed by Asian-American artist Kam Mak, who now lives in Brooklyn.
The stamp depicts an arrangement of lucky bamboo along with an intricate cut-paper design of a dog created by Hawai‘i graphic design icon Clarence Lee. Lee’s paper-cut animal designs have graced every Postal Service Lunar New Year stamp since they were introduced in 1992.
The stamp also features a piece of red paper with the Chinese character fu, meaning good fortune, rendered in calligraphy, and the Chinese character for “dog,” drawn in grass-style calligraphy.
Previous stamps in the series have featured dragon masks, drums, Chinese lanterns and fireworks.
This is the 11th special stamp in the 12 year series, which will continue through 2019 with a stamp for the Year of the Boar.
The Year of the Dog begins February 16.
The 2018 Lunar New Year stamp is issued on sheets of 12 stamps. As a Forever Stamp, it will always be equal in value to the current one-ounce rate for First Class mail. Sheets are sold at post offices and online at the postal website, www.usps.com/shop.
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