Spain hung red, yellow and red flags on ships in 1785, which became the representative color of Spain. The Spanish flag consists of three parallel rectangles: red, yellow and red. The top and bottom are red, each accounting for a quarter of the bottom of the flag. Yellow in the middle, half-mast. The flag near the flagpole is painted with the national emblem of Spain.
The historical evolution of Spain
According to legend, the color of the Spanish flag comes from the blood-stained gold shield of the Gothic king who was injured in the battle, so the Spanish flag is also called blood gold. Red and yellow are traditional colors in Spain. Legend has it that they come from the bullring. Red is the blood of the matador, and yellow is the color of the soil in the bullring. These two colors represent the four ancient kingdoms that make up Spain.
The basic pattern of the flag of the Kingdom of Spain was first selected as a military flag by King Carlos III of Spain in the war of 1785, and has been a national symbol ever since. Carlos III entrusted his navy minister Antonio Valdez Bazin to change the navy flag.
Of the 12 sketches submitted to the king for selection, the king chose two with different stripes. According to the Royal Decree of May 28th 1785, the first letter was for the navy, and the second letter was for businessmen.
During the reign of Charles IV of Spain,1General Rules for the Navy on March 8, 793 extended the use of red flags to Cape Square, castles and coastal fortifications, and defined them as royal flags.
Under the rule of Isabel Ii, the use of the bicolor flag was extended to the army, thus unifying the Spanish flag. 1Instructions on Navy Badges, Flags, Honors and Greetings issued on March 3, 867 clearly described the ship flag, armory and sea square flag again.
1938, after Franco came to power, a black hawk with a sacred ring and a red mouth was planted on the Spanish flag. It is generally believed that the model referring to San Juan has been revised three times. The precedent of eagle as a badge behind the coat of arms can be traced back to the coat of arms of Carlos I of Spain, which is equipped with the imperial double-headed eagle of Habsburg dynasty of Spain.
Placing the Spanish coat of arms in the middle of the national flag has always been the mainstream of Spanish coat of arms design. In the later period, this design should be re-enabled based on the nationalist position, but due to the lack of the lineage of the holy Roman Empire, the double-headed eagle behind it was changed to the guardian saint of Spain, San Juan. This design has been used until Franco died 198 1 year.
1June 6, 978, 3 1 June 6, 2008,1June 6, 2002, the Spanish Constitution passed by parliament and referendum clearly stipulates that the Spanish national flag consists of red, yellow and red stripes, and the width of the yellow stripe is twice that of the red stripe.
198 1 year, after King Carlos took full power, the black hawk pattern was deleted from the flag of the Kingdom of Spain, and the heraldic pattern was also simplified. The crown symbolizing kingship was replaced by the city crown without kingship symbol, and the heraldry symbolizing bourbon descent was added to the central part.