The national flag of the PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA is often also called the "Five Stars". The official symbol of the Chinese state: on a scarlet background in the upper left corner is a large gold star surrounded by four smaller ones. It is a recognized symbol of the people and government of China since October 1, 1949.
The red color symbolizes the revolution of the Communists, and the five stars - the unity of the people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. The first was raised over Tiananmen during the parade of the People's Liberation Army of China on the occasion of the proclamation of the new Chinese state.
History
The current state symbol was preceded by a series of other flags, the first of which was the flag of the Yellow Dragon. It was used by the Imperial Qing Dynasty, the last to rule China between 1862 and 1911, when it was overthrown in the Xinhai Revolution. In 1862, the authorities approved the triangular flag, but from 1889 a rectangle with a ratio of three to two was used.
The Republican flag went through a long chain of transformations and was very diverse. For example, the blue sky flag of the white sun, created by Lu Handong, the hieromartyr of the revolution. This project was proposed in 1895, during the establishment of the Society of Reborn China, directed by the Qing Strait. Sun Yat-seng added a red earth to the sun and sky in 1906 – so the flag gained completeness.
Another option came up with George Yeou, the minister of foreign affairs: he combined ten stripes of different colors with the Kuomintang flag in the kryzh, but this version resembled the American and Liberian symbols.
The Ushansky uprising of 1911, which was the forerunner of the establishment of the republican system, gave rise to many flags. Thus, in guangxi, yun'an, Guizhou and Guangdong lands used the flag "Sky with a white sun",and in Wuhan - prapor with 18 stars,symbolizing the 18 provinces of the country.
The Shanghai and North Chinese governments used a five-color flag, also known as the "Five Races in One Union," where five horizontal stripes symbolize the country's main ethnic groups:
- Red - Han
- Yellow — Manchurian
- Blue — Mongolian
- White - Hui
- Black for Tibet.
The following year, the provisional republican government chose the five-color flag as the state flag. 18 stars began to be used in the army. The only one who seriously objected to the striped flag was Sun Yat-s-cen – he considered inevitable an allusion to class society and the estates that existed under the previous regime.
In 1913, Yuan Shikai staged a coup and dissolved the parliament. Sun Yat-cen proclaimed a government-in-exile in Japan with a red flag and a white sun on blue. This flag was the flag of hope until December 1928, when the Kuomintang succeeded in overthrowing the Beijing government.
During the war with China, dozens of different flags were used, but the main ones were five-color and "modern". With the fall of the Japanese at the beginning, and then the Kuomintang after the civil war, which was completed in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his men fled to the island of Taiwan, where they retained the old republic, while the continent needed new symbols.
A new red flag with 4 small stars and one larger one was adopted by the Legislative Yuan, the National People's Congress.
