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WORLD FLAGS
SITE ON THE ORIGIN, DESIGN AND SYMBOLOGY OF THE FLAGS OF THE WORLD
Chinese Communist Party
Ratio: 2 x 3
#C / CHINESE / Asia
CHINA
.CN
Official name:
People's Republic of China
*Simplified Chinese / 中华人民共和国 - Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó
Capital: Beijing
Idiom: Mandarin Chinese
Form of Government: One-party Marxist-Leninist unitary socialist republic
Currency: Renminbi
Demonym: Chinese/-na
Administrative divition: 23 Provinces, 5 Autonomous Regions, 4 Municipalities and 2 Special Administrative Regions
FLAG
The flag of the People's Republic of China is a red cloth that symbolizes the revolution, with five yellow five-pointed stars that in turn symbolize the unity of the revolutionary people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. As can be seen, the small stars appear oriented towards the larger star.
The flag was designed by Zeng Liansong, a citizen of Zhejiang and in China is known as 五星红旗 (in pinyin Wǔ Xīng Hóng Qí) which means "the red flag of the five stars". It is raised every day in Tiananmen Square by the People's Liberation Army, to the sound of the Chinese national anthem, the March of the Volunteers, although when the date falls on October 1, a national holiday, the flag is raised with a special ceremony. prior to the military parade.
National flag
Ratio: 2 x 3
According to the Chinese government's current interpretation of the national flag, the bright red background symbolizes the people's revolution, and the gold color was used to "stand out" from the red color. The relationship between the five stars represents the unity of the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. The orientation shows that this unit must always revolve around a center (in this case, the party, since it is the one who guides the people). In Zeng's original description of the flag, the largest star symbolizes the Chinese Communist Party, and the four smaller stars that surround and face it symbolize the four social classes, mentioned by Mao Zedong in his book On the democratic dictatorship of the people: workers, peasants, the "petty bourgeoisie", the "national bourgeoisie".
The five stars that form the ellipse represent the Chinese territory (including Outer Mongolia), in the shape of a begonia leaf
OTHER FLAGS
Chinese Communist Party
Ratio: 2 x 3
People's Liberation Army
Ratio: 4 x 5
ICONOGRAPHY
Star
MEANING
It represents the Chinese Communist Party as the guide of the people.
stars
MEANING
They represent the four social classes: workers, peasants, petty bourgeoisie and national bourgeoisie. The four stars are oriented towards the largest star.
CONSTRUCTION
A : 5 | B : 2 | C :3 | D : 15 | E : 10
F : 15 | G : 6 | H : 2 | I : 30
COLORS
97 %
Red
HEX CODE
# ee1c25
2 %
Yellow
HEX CODE
# ffff00
SYMBOLIZES:
THE REVOLUTION OF THE PEOPLE
HISTORY
flag of the
Qing dynasty
1889 - 1912
flag of the
Qing dynasty
1889 - 1912
flag of the Lifting
by wuchang
1911 - 1912
flag of the
chinese empire
1915 - 1916
flag of the
chinese empire
1915 - 1916
republic flag
Chinese Soviet
1931 - 1934
SHIELD
The National Emblem of the People's Republic of China is composed of the same red color and the stars of the national flag. To the elements of the flag, a drawing is added in which the historic Tian'anmen Gate is represented, a gear wheel and several ears of wheat and rice that are the symbols of the revolutionary struggle of the Chinese workers.
The design of the Emblem was approved on June 18, 1950, during the Second Session of the First National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
On July 10, 1949, the government held a public contest for the design of the national emblem, however no satisfactory designs were selected. Therefore, on September 27, 1949, the First Plenary Session of the CPPCC decided to invite designers for the proposals of the national emblem and in September 1949 two groups from two universities were selected. Three proposals were selected for the first round of discussion:
- The designers of the Central Academy of Fine Arts of China submitted their proposals with 5 variations on September 25, 1949. The symbolism of their first design was: The red star symbolizes communism and the Communist Party of China. The cogwheel and the wheat/rice symbolize the unification of industrial workers and peasants. The rising earth with China in red symbolizes the socialist revolution in China and the ideal world revolution in the Asian counties.
31 rays behind the earth symbolize the 31 provincial administrative divisions at that time. The name of the People's Republic of China is written on the red ribbon below. The design was based on his Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference emblem design, and was influenced by Eastern Bloc Socialist heraldry.
- Designers from the Department of Architecture at Tsinghua University delivered their proposal on October 30, 1949. According to their proposal, the design was a mixture of traditional Chinese culture and the ideals of the New Maoist Democratic Revolution. The design mimicked the style of Han dynasty mirrors, symbolizing brilliance. The disk was made of jade, a symbol of peace and unity. The decorative carvings on the disk were in the style of the Tang dynasty. The stars of the national flag and a gear were placed in the center of the disk, surrounded by wheat, symbolizing the unity of the working class and socialism. The red ribbon tied a smaller jade ring, which symbolized the unification of the Chinese people.
- Zhang Ding's other proposal, Zhang Guangyu, Zhou Lingzhao, was a perspective representation of the Tian'anmen gate.
The members of the first committee of the CPPCC discussed these three proposals on June 10, 1950. The result of the discussion was that the proposal from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts was too colorful to be considered as a trademark, and the proposal of Tsinghua University was considered bourgeois containing many traditional symbols. The committee suggested two groups to include Tian'anmen Gate, a symbol of the Chinese revolution that is the location of the May Fourth Movement, and the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949.
Two groups then worked on a second round of proposals. Tsinghua University's second proposal standardized the Tian'anmen Gate design on the emblem and selected red and yellow as the main colors. His proposal was selected and the design was standardized and simplified by Gao Zhuang. This design was officially made a national emblem on September 20, 1950 by the Central People's Government.