中国第一张邮资明信片是在1897年10月由大清国邮政局发行,而早在1874年由上海工部局发行的小龙明信片则未被视为正统。明信片大致可分为邮资明信片和无邮资明信片两大类,风景明信片属于后者,允许由非邮政部门或民间机构自行制作发行。中国的风景明信片肇始于十九世纪末,据说是一名颇有创意的商人雇用画师在官发的明信片上作画,一时洛阳纸贵,而为中国风景明信片之滥觞。这一类手 China’s first postage postcard was issued by the Qing Dynasty Post Office in October 1897, while the postcard issued by Shanghai’s Ministry of Industry and Labor as early as 1874 was not considered orthodox. Postcards can be broadly divided into postage postcards and postage-free postcards, landscape postcards belong to the latter, allowing non-postal services or non-governmental agencies to make their own distribution. China’s scenic postcards originated in the late nineteenth century. It is said that a rather creative businessman hired an artist to make paintings on the official postcards. Sometimes Luoyang paper was expensive and the origin of Chinese scenic postcards. This type of hand