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The Flag of the People's Republic of China, the "Five-Starred Red Flag (五星红旗 in pinyin: wǔ xīng hóng qí)", was designed by Zeng Liansong, an economist by trade and a talented artist who lived in Ruian (瑞安 ruì ān), Zhejiang. He designed it in response to a circular distributed by the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in July 1949, shortly after they came to power. Out of some 3,000 plus entries received for the design competition, Zeng's was chosen after being nominated as one of the 38 finalists. Mao Zedong hoisted the first flag on a pole overlooking Tiananmen Square on the day of its unveiling. Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China. ... FIAV usage code 23: See Vexillological symbols for its meaning File links The following pages link to this file: Flag of the Peoples Republic of China Categories: GFDL images ... HànyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), often shortened to pinyin (Chinese: 拼音, pÄ«nyÄ«n), which literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese, is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin. ... Zeng Liansong (1917-1999, Traditional Chinese: 曾聯松, Simplified Chinese: 曾联松, Pinyin: ZÄ“ng Liánsōng) was the designer of the Flag of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Zhejiang (Chinese: 浙江; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Che-chiang; Postal System Pinyin: Chehkiang or Chekiang) is a eastern coastal province of the Peoples Republic of China. ... The Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference (中国人民政治协商会议 Pinyin: Zhongguo renmin zhengzhi xieshang huiyi), abbreviated CPPCC, is an advisory body in the Peoples Republic of China. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... Tiananmen Square (Simplified Chinese: 天安门广场; Traditional Chinese: 天安門廣場; pinyin: ) is the large plaza near the center of Beijing, China, named for the Tiananmen (literally, Gate of Heavenly Peace) which sits to its north, separating it from the Forbidden City. ...

The design incorporates some of the well-known symbols of communism: blood red flag as its background and bright yellow for its stars. The larger star symbolizes the leadership of the Communist Party of China. There is no official interpretation for the four smaller stars. Popular speculation has suggested that they represent the Chinese people, in general; another popular suggestion is that they represent the four classes: the workers, the peasants, the petty bourgeoisie, and patriotic capitalists. Another interpretation is that the large star represents the dominant Han Chinese while the smaller stars represent the four minority ethnicities of China: Tibetans, Manchus, Mongols, and Uighurs, much like the old five-striped flag of the Republic of China; however, China now officially recognizes 55 minority ethnic groups rather than the four groups recognized at the beginning of the 20th century, and all ethnic groups are officially equal in status, so this interpretation contradicts stated official policy. This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... In sail boat racing a solid red flag is known as a Protest Flag. ... Communist Party of China flag The Communist Party of China (CPC) or Chinese Communist Party (CCP) (Simplified: 中国共产党; Traditional: 中國共産黨; Hanyu Pinyin: ) is the ruling political party of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Categories: 1911 Britannica | Historical stubs | Feudalism ... Petit-bourgeois or Anglicised petty bourgeois is a French term that reffered to the members of the lower middle social-classes. ... Han Chinese (Simplified: 汉族; Traditional: 漢族; Hanyu Pinyin: ) is a term which refers to the majority ethnic group within China and the largest single human ethnic group in the world. ... A Tibetan pilgrim The Tibetans speak the Tibetan language natively and form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), although in anthropological terms they include more than one ethnic group. ... The Manchu (Manchu: Manju; Simplified Chinese: 满族; Traditional Chinese: 滿族; pinyin: ) are an ethnic group who originated in the dong bei or North East region consisting of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang provinces, collectively known in English as Manchuria. ... Honorary guard of Mongolia. ... Uyghurs (also called Uighurs, Uygurs, or Uigurs) (Chinese: 維吾爾 or 维吾尔 in pinyin: wéiwúěr) are a Turkic ethnic group of people living in northwestern China (mainly in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where they are the dominant ethnic group together with Han people), Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. ... Flag ratio: 2:3 The flag of the Republic of China is red with a dark blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a white sun with 12 triangular rays. ... The Peoples Republic of China officially describes itself as a multinational unitary state and as such officially recognizes 56 nationalities or Mínzú (民族), within China: the Han being the majority (>92%), and the remaining 55 nationalities being the national minorities. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...

The design went through several changes and was finally approved by the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on September 27, 1949 at their First Plenary Session. The original design plans consisted of several alterations in comparison with the modern-day flag, which is really a watered-down version at that. The Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference (中国人民政治协商会议 Pinyin: Zhongguo renmin zhengzhi xieshang huiyi), abbreviated CPPCC, is an advisory body in the Peoples Republic of China. ... September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 95 days remaining. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ...

Three of the original flag candidates showed the large golden star (with no additional stars anywhere else) along with one, two, or three yellow bars (horizontal) at the bottom of the flag, representing the Yangtze, Huang He (Yellow River) and the Zhujiang River (Pearl River). They were not chosen, however, because the very presence of these bars appeared to, at least on the surface of the flag, suggest a tearing or splittling of the nation. Afternoon light on the jagged grey mountains rising from the Yangtze River gorge The Yangtze River (Simplified Chinese: 扬子江; Traditional Chinese: 揚子江; pinyin: ) is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world after the Amazon in South America and the Nile in Africa. ... For other Yellow Rivers, see Yellow River (disambiguation). ... The Pearl River (珠江 Pinyin: Zhū Jiāng) is Chinas third largest river (2197 km, after Huang He and the Yangtze) located in the south, flowing into the South China Sea between Hong Kong and Macau. ...

Two other designs featuring the large star with four smaller stars were also discussed. One of them showed four stars in a vertical line below the large golden star. This was dumped out of fears that it would suggest class incompatibilities and struggles. The other flag was very much the current-day PRC flag, but had the hammer and sickle in red, inside the largest golden star. The Communist icon was removed because the PRC would be a Maoist people's democratic dictatorship, not a complete mirror of a Communist state. The hammer and sickle in the flag, were it to survive, would also further complicate relations with the other four stars it represented (two smaller stars already represented the workers and the farmers; if the hammer (workers) and the sickle (farmers) were added once again to the flag, there could well be class inequalities.) Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought (Chinese: 毛澤東思想, pinyin: Máo Zédōng Sīxiǎng), also called Marxism-Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought or Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM), is a variant of communism derived from the teachings of Mao Zedong (1893–1976). ... Peoples democratic dictatorship is a phrase incorporated into the Constitution of the Peoples Republic of China by Mao Zedong. ...

The usage of the flag is governed by the Law of the National Flag of the People's Republic of China. It is often raised to the music of the "March of the Volunteers," the national anthem. The Constitution of the People's Republic of China defines the flag in Article 136. The March of the Volunteers (Simplified Chinese: 义勇军进行曲; Pinyin: ) is the national anthem of the Peoples Republic of China, written in the midst of the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) by the noted poet and playwright Tian Han (田汉) with music composed by Nie Er (聂耳). This composition is a musical march. ... A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is formally recognized by a countrys government as their states official national song. ... The Constitution of the Peoples Republic of China (中华人民共和国宪法; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Xiànfǎ) is the highest law within the Peoples Republic of China. ...

Flag construction

The exact definition of the look of the flag is that it is a red field, with five yellow pentagrams, or regularly defined five-pointed stars, which are placed on the flag according to certain rules. The precise 'generation' of the elements of the flag can be described as follows:

Let there be a rectangle with relative height 2 and length 3. Color it red. Divide the length and height of this figure (both) in half, so that the remaining rectangle is the 'top left' partition, having a ratio equal to the original rectangle. The partition in question has an area 1/4 of the total flag. By constructing 9 and 14 new horizontal and vertical, equidistant (and imaginary) lines, divide this new rectangular region into 150 squares, with a height of ten squares, and a length of 15 squares.

From the top left corner, 'pace' to the right by five units (equal to the side of the new squares), and 'down' by five units. At this point between the previously described squares, describe an (imaginary) circle with a radius equal to three of the recently described squares. As before, beginning at the top left of the figure, use the same procedure to describe four new (smaller) circles. The centers of the four new circles are given as follows: from the top left of the figure, using the square sides as units, pace off ten right, two down; twelve right, four down; twelve right, seven down; and ten right, nine down: use those coordinates as the centers of the new circles, and describe circles with radii equal to one square side, about each of those four points.

Now one should have five (imaginary) circles in your figure. These circles are used as references to describe the geometric pentagrams, or yellow five-pointed stars, which stand on the red field of the flag. They are constructed as follows. In the case of the circle with radius equal to three square sides (the big one), five vertices of the pentagram are needed. Construct a segment which is parallel to the vertical side of the flag, passing through the circle's edge, and its center. The vertex on the circle's edge will be one of the (big) pentagram's vertices.

Now, a geometer must use a little creativity. Using geometry, specifically proposition 11, from book IV of Euclid's Elements, one must construct the vertices of a regular pentagon on the circle, using the first vertex described above as reference. One must then join the vertices in such a way as to generate the look of a pentagram, and color the resulting figure yellow. As for the smaller circles/pentagrams, the reference vertices for each smaller pentagram are described as follows: the reference vertex for each smaller circle is colinear with the center of the smaller circle in question, and the center of the larger circle. It therefore rests upon the small circle under examination. It remains to apply the procedure used to make the large yellow pentagram, to make the smaller ones. Euclid Euclid of Alexandria (Greek: ) (ca. ...

A national flag is a flag that symbolises a country and that can usually be flown by citizens of that country. ... A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ... This gallery of sovereign state flags shows the flags of sovereign states in the list of sovereign states. ... This gallery of sovereign state coats of arms shows the coat of arms of sovereign states in the list of sovereign states. ... This overview contains the flags of dependent territories. ... This overview contains the flags of self-proclaimed states that have declared their independence, exert control over (at least part of) the claimed territory and population, but have not been acknowledged as independent states by the international community at large. ...

See also

• List of Chinese flags
• Emblem of the People's Republic of China
• Flag of the Republic of China
• Red Flag
• Flags of the PRC's Special Administrative Regions:
  • Flag of Hong Kong
  • Flag of Macau

This is a list of current and historical flags used in the geographic area of China. ... The National Emblem of the Peoples Republic of China (中华人民共和国国徽) contains a representation of Tiananmen Gate, the entrance gate of the Forbidden City from the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in a red circle. ... Flag ratio: 2:3 The flag of the Republic of China is red with a dark blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a white sun with 12 triangular rays. ... In sail boat racing a solid red flag is known as a Protest Flag. ... A Special Administrative Region (SAR) (Simplified Chinese: 特别行政区; Traditional Chinese: 特別行政區; pinyin: tèbié xíngzhèngqū; Cantonese IPA: /tɐk6piːt6 hɐŋ4tsɪŋ3kʰɵy1/; Jyutping: dak6bit6 hang4zing3keoi1; Yale: dahkbiht hàhngjingkeūi) is a political subdivision of the Peoples Republic of China. ... The flag of the HKSAR Flag ratio: 2:3 The HKSAR and the PRC flags brandishing at the patio of the Legislative Council. ... Flag ratio: 2:3 The flag of Macau is light green with a lotus flower above a stylized bridge and water in white, beneath an arc of five gold, five-pointed stars: one large in center of arc and four smaller. ...

External links

• China at Flags of the World
• Official specifications and standard sizes of the flag.