Beneath a towering stalk of ink-black bamboo, a tiger throws its head skyward in a full-throated roar — a composition of raw, diagonal energy that electrifies this Chinese brush-painting postcard. The monochrome palette, with its soft washes of sepia and grey, is punctuated only by the artist's dense calligraphic inscription in the upper right corner and a single red seal at lower right, hallmarks of the scholarly wenrenhua tradition. The reverse is a matching PRC pre-stamped postal card bearing the same 4-fen Han beast imprint on orange ground as its companion in this series, again chop-stamped in red with 恭贺新禧 for New Year. The more restrained, ink-dominant composition suggests this card may reproduce a work by a different artist than its companion — possibly in the manner of the Lingnan school or a northern academic painter. Unused and clean, it pairs naturally with PC-05581 as a set.