The year hasn’t closed out and the list of Macau’s 2022 stamps has already been issued. The program will kick off with the Year of the Tiger and Macau has published a preliminary scan. 2021 turned into a great year, by the way, for learning about the art, culture and history of Macau. It was a fun trip! Among the best of 2021’s stamps was the April Libraries of Macau sheet by Liao Wenchang.
Libraries of Macau
Another favourite wasn’t actually a 2021 release, but the announcement Macau Post won an award for the 2018 Chapas Sínicas set. You can read about it here Macau’s Chapas Sínicas stamps WIN!
2018 Chapas Sínicas
Macau’s 2022 stamp program
No dates yet. I’ll plug those in when they are announced. Here’s the program:
- Year of the Tiger
- Red cotton
- Zen Six-Hu – Hueing – the 6th patriarch of Zen Buddhism
- 70th anniversary of the opening of the women’s union nursery
- 50th anniversary of the convention for the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage
- Macau school historic building
- Atlantic bank 120th anniversary
- 400th anniversary of Bishop’s Hill Church
- modern architecture II
- Chinese classical poetry – song
- eighteen Rohan
Familiar themes make an appearance. We can look forward to the previously mentioned Lunar New Year stamps, explorations of architectural history and dives into classic literature. It’ll be another fun year. If I can’t go in person, I can live vicariously through Macau’s stamps.
One thing I’ll be looking for is more information on the artists. If you have any links that may help, drop a comment below.
January
Lunar New Year – Year of the Tiger
5 stamps, sheet of 16, sheetlet with one stamp, 2 FDCs, cancel, souvenir sheet, folder with 8 stamps, promissory note, joint FDC with China
Designer: Yu Si | 余思
Yu Si created the October 2021 Insects stamps
Release date: January 5, 2022
Beijing Olympics 2022
4 stamps, souvenir sheet with single stamp, sheet of 16, 2 FDCs, cancel, souvenir folder
Designer: Wang Huming | 王虎鳴
Wang Huming’s art work appears on stamps from the Isle of Jersey, UN and China. He holds the post of Art Director of the Postage Stamp Printing Bureau of China Post.
Release date: January 25, 2022
February
Year of the Tiger Postal Label
1 postal label, FDC, cancel
Designer: Feng Baozhu | 馮寶珠
Release date: February 15, 2022
March
Red Cotton Tree
2 stamps, 1 stamp on a souvenir sheet, sheet of 8, 2 FDCs, cancel, info sheet, data sheet
offset lithography
Bombax ceiba or red silk cotton tree.
Bombax ceiba | Macau Biodiversity
Designer: Yang Daming | 楊大名
Release date: March 1, 2022
Communications Museum Land Anniversary
Special cancel
Release date: March 1, 2022
113th Anniversary of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau
Special commemorative cover & cancel
Release date: March 1, 2022
The Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism – Huineng | 禪宗六祖 – 惠能
5 stamps, souvenir sheet with one stamp, sheet of 20, 2 FDCs, cancel, info leaflet, data sheet
Ke style lithography plus microprinting
Huineng (Hui-neng) (638—713)
Huineng (Hui-neng) a seminal figure in Buddhist history. He is the famous “Sixth Patriarch” of the Chan or meditation tradition, which is better known in Japanese as “Zen”).
Huineng (Hui-neng) | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (utm.edu) offers a substantial article on Huineng.
Original art: Sun Jiangtao | 孫蔣濤原作
sun jiangtao’s official website – artron artist network (In Chinese, use Google Translate)
Release date: March 10, 2022
World Tree Planting Day
Special commemorative cover & cancel
Release date: March 21, 2022
70th anniversary of the bureau of geophysics and meteorology
Special commemorative cover & cancel
Release date: March 23, 2022
May
70th Anniversary of the Women’s Federation Nursery
2 stamps, 1 stamp on souvenir sheet, 2 FDCs, cancel, 2 sheets of 20, info sheets
Designer: Wu Weijian 吳衛堅
Release date: May 21. 2022
April
World Stamp Exhibition 2022
Special commemorative cover & cancel for the World Stamp Exhibition held in Japan on April 22 to 24.
Release date: April 22-24, 2022
June
50th Anniversary of the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage
4 stamps, sheet of 16, souvenir sheet, 4 postcards, 2 FDCs, cancel, souvenir sheet, infosheets
Designer: 吳衛鳴 Wu Weiming
Release date: June 10, 2022
July
2 stamps, 2 sheets of 50, souvenir sheet, 2 FDCs, cancel, 2 info sheets
Designer: Lu Zeqiang 呂澤強
Release date: July 20, 2022
August
Macau’s Native Vegetables – Macao Romaine
4 stamps, 1 stamp on souvenir sheet, sheets of 15, 4 postcards, 4 stamped postcards, 2 FDCs, cancel, 2 infoshets
- Salted Shrimp Sauerkraut Pork
- Smorgasbord
- Yellow Ginger Powder Pork
- Almond Pine Nut Cake
Macanese gastronomic cooking skills are a unique food culture in Macao, and in 2021, they were successfully included in the “National Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative Project List”, highlighting the status of Romaine lettuce as an important tourism resource in Macao. “Macau Native Vegetables” Philatelic Products on August 15th – Philatelic (ctt.gov.mo)
Designer: Ma Wei Da 馬偉達先生
Info sheet written by Macau Native Society 澳門土生協會 (4) ADM Associação dos Macaenses 澳門土生協會 | Facebook
Release date: July 20, 2022 August 15, 2022
September
Macau School Historic Building
6 stamps, FDC, cancel, sheets of 50, info sheets
The “Macao School Historic Building” brings together six schools, witnessing that Macao has cultivated generations of local talents in Macao in the form of diversified coexistence, and has made positive contributions to promoting the development of the country and Macao. At the same time, these schools’ historic buildings are a microcosm of Macau’s precious cultural heritage preservation. Tan Zhiguang 譚志廣 Philatelic Products – Historic Buildings of Macau Schools (ctt.gov.mo)
- Elementary School Affiliated to Matteo Ricci Secondary School 利瑪竇中學附屬小學
- Macau Portuguese Literature School 澳門葡文學校
- Chinese Department of St. Rosa Girls’ High School 聖羅撒女子中學中文部
- Lingnan Secondary School 南中學
- Peidao Secondary School 培道中學
- Peizheng Middle School 培正中學
Designer: Howard Johnson
Release date: September 9, 2022
120th Anniversary of the Bank of the Atlantic
4 stamps, mini sheet, 2 FDCs, sheet of 16, 2 info sheets
Designer: Lin Zien 林子恩
Release date: September 20, 2022
October
400th Anniversary of Bishop’s Hill Chapel
Release date: October 9, 2022
Modern Architecture Two
Release date: October 28, 2022
November
Classical Chinese Poetry – Song Poetry
中國古典詩詞 – 宋詞
Poetry from the Song dynasty of China (960–1279).
Release date: November 18, 2022
December
十八羅漢 Eighteen Arhats
18 original followers of Buddha
Release date: December 1, 2022
See more Macau stamps here – Stunning Macau 2021 stamps – 澳门邮政 | Bitter Grounds Magazine
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