"The foot of my bed is shining with such bright light. Is it frosty already? . Looking up, I found that it was moonlight, sinking again, and I suddenly thought of home. " Li Bai's Thoughts on a Quiet Night appeared on the United Nations stamp on March 2, 1965, and became one of the series of stamps issued by the United Nations for World Poetry Day.
Since 1999, March 2 1 every year has become the "World Poetry Day" selected by UNESCO-regardless of nationality, color and age, people who love and create poetry will regard this day as a festival for poets all over the world. This year's "World Poetry Day" series of stamps has 6 souvenir sheets and 36 stamps. The representative poems of six major world languages, English, Spanish, Chinese, French, Arabic and Russian, were selected for display. On the souvenir sheet of Silent Night Thinking, the whole poem is written in regular script in Chinese, and there are English poems translated by Mr. and Mrs. Yang on the stamp issue materials.