Lunar Year of The Pig Sheet of Twenty 29 Cent Stamps Scott 2876

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These “Year of the Pig” stamps were issued on December 30, 1994 in Sacramento, California.
Artist, Clarence Lee, of Honolulu, HI, created a distinctively modern and Chinese design with a paper-cut two dimensional look.
A professional calligrapher, Lau Bun, wrote Kanji characters to state the name of each stamp on the left side.
Kanji is a Japanese adaptation to Chinese characters and can be read by a variety of Asian groups from differing countries and cultures.
The Chinese lunar cycle is based on a 12-year repeating cycle.
According to legend, the signs of the Zodiac were determined when Buddha invited all the animals of the kingdom for a meeting.
Only 12 animals showed up: the rooster, dog, boar, rat, ox, tiger, hare, dragon, snake, horse, ram and monkey.
Buddha gave each animal its own year; thus, it is believed that people will possess the nature and characteristics of the animal that represents the year in which they are born.

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