Greeting Card Development

The greeting card was originally called "name post", mainly to introduce yourself, and it was called "Ye" in the Western Han Dynasty. Today, the VIPs still said "Bai Ye" when they met each other. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was called "Name Trick". Our commonly used business cards. Greeting cards have been used in our country for a long time. In ancient times, senior officials and officials used to greet each other with famous post. Song Hui Zhouhui said in Qingbo Magazine: “In Song Yuanyou’s New Year’s Day, the servants often used servants to carry the name sting.” This record stems from an interesting story: a certain person in the capital does not want Every household in the house went to visit in person, and came up with a lazy idea. He first wrote many cards with blessings, and then told the servant to put a card at the door and knock on the door every time he visited the house. After waiting to open the door, he quickly slipped away so that the respondent thought he had visited him in person.

Perhaps this person was lazy again and again, and leaked the wind. As a result, when a family heard the knock on the door, they rushed out and arrested the "poor" servant. This is seen as "falsification". But at that time, the bureaucrats made a lot of friends. If they went to the door to greet them, it would take time and energy, so some friends did not go in person, but sent their servants to take a two-inch wide and three-inch long cut with plum paper. The card with the consignee's name, address and congratulations on it went to the New Year.