Yan Bingwu & Yang Wenqing
Chinese Yan Bingqu, a native of Beijing, was born in 1954. He is a master of art and craft as a stamp designer at the Department of
Ministry of Posts Telecommunications. He won the best stamp painting award both in 1980 and 1982. His main works of stamp paintings are "Chinese Ancient Scientists", "Chinese Ancient Bronze
Vessels", "Mountain Tai" and "Scenery of Emei Mountain." The commemorative stamp "Dr. Norman Bethune" he painted was adopted by Canadian government. His art works were sent several times to
exhibitions at home and abroad and collected by National Art Gallery. He is a member of the Beijing Artists Association. Yang Wenqing was born in Beijing in 1951. He graduated from the
oil painting department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1978. Beginning in 1986, Yang became a professional stamp artist. His stunning designs included many of China's scenic mountains
and rivers, including Husashan Mountain, the two Hengshan mountains, the Changjiang River and the Yangtze River. His stamp designs also include subjects such as the 1500th Anniversary of
Shaolin Temple, Ancient Academies and the Great Wall. Yang won first prize in the 1989 Best Stamp of the Year with his beautiful design of Mount Husashan. He has also achieved wide acclaim
for the stamps Mount Hengshan, Ancient Temples in the Wutai Mountain and Three Gorges on Yangtz River. | 
