There has been a system of "post biography" since the Han Dynasty, but there is no word "post station". "Zhan" comes from Mongolian jam (the word comes from the Chinese character "Yima"), also known as "jamcin", which was popular in the Yuan Dynasty. It is for this reason that the word "station" is pronounced in Mongolian. In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang renamed the common word "station" as "post" in the first year of Hongwu. However, following the habit, "post station" has also become a common language of ordinary people.
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The History of China Post Station
The post station is the place where officials who passed military information boarded the bus and changed horses on the way in ancient times. The border guards transmitted information and were controlled by the ancient customs, navy and navy.
The origin and significance of the word "post" can be understood from the evolution of China's post offices and postal undertakings: in China's ancient books, the words "biography" and "sudden" are common in the records of communication affairs, while the word "post" is quoted by Mencius' Gong Sunchou: "Confucius said that virtue is more popular than posting, and it kills people."
China is one of the first countries in the world to establish an organized information transmission system. It can be traced back to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago. Post-horse relay is an early organized mode of communication. The "Postman" sculpture is located in Jiayuguan Railway Station Square, based on the mural tomb of Wei and Jin Dynasties in Jiayuguan. With a simple document in his hand, the postman galloped at high speed on all fours. This brick mural was taken as the theme pattern of small stamps by the First Congress of the All-China Philatelic Federation in 1982, which shows that Jiayuguan is one of the birthplaces of information culture in China.
From the narration of books such as Chunqiu and Zuozhuan, we can know that there were three modes of communication at that time: one was "biography", which was delivered by car; The second is "mail", step by step; The third kind is "post", which is called "horse delivery". Later, due to the high cost of car delivery, it was gradually discontinued, leaving only step delivery and horse delivery, so it was renamed as "post station".