What are the differences between different types of greeting cards?

The origin of Chinese New Year cards is also related. In the early years, people in officialdom or social gentry, at the beginning of the new year, those with lower positions or seniority would pay new year visits to the older or higher. If the owner is not there, the person who pays the New Year's greetings will leave a red business card (or those with a red letter) with the words "Dengfu New Year's Greetings and Congratulations to the New Year" to show the intention of visiting the house in person.

Valentine's Day card is the oldest greeting card. As early as in ancient Rome, on the day of the Faun on February 15 each year, the girls put their love messages in a box with a shy and joyful mood. Then the young guys in the city will draw lots and draw a congratulatory message from a girl, and he can justly woo that girl. The greetings the girls put in the box can be said to be the earliest Valentine's Day greeting card.

In China, people also send greeting cards to loved ones on Qixi, especially those made by themselves. Such gifts are sincere and unique. In 1840, American businessman Esther A. Holland began mass production of Valentine's Day cards as commodities. It made a profit of $5,000 in the first year. It can be seen that greeting cards have been popular with people almost since their birth.

And the most popular greeting card in the West-Christmas cards appeared late. The first series of designs for the card were made by a British painter, John C. Horsley in 1843. On Christmas Day 1842, British missionary Pulizhi used a card to depict a picture of the birth of Jesus and wrote two sentences: I wish you a Merry Christmas and a safe New Year. Then send this card to a friend who is missionary in Africa.

In 1843, there was a teenager named Henkel in England who worked as an apprentice in a carving shop. At Christmas, he was too busy to write congratulations to his family and friends. He cut some blank pieces of paper and asked a well-known painter to draw a picture of a family sitting and celebrating Christmas. In the middle of the piece of paper, he wrote a congratulatory message: Wish Christmas and celebrate the New Year, and send it to relatives and friends. Later, he cooperated with the painter and printed a thousand copies as they were. Except for the 100 copies they kept for themselves, the rest were sold for one shilling. Since then, there will be Christmas cards.

Today, the world consumes hundreds of billions of greeting cards every year, and sales have reached 200 billion US dollars. The craftsmanship of greeting cards is becoming more and more colorful, and new types of greeting cards are emerging in endlessly. There are also more and more new greeting card aids.