1949 In April, China People's Liberation Army liberated Nanking, which declared the collapse of Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary rule. In September, the first session of the National People's Political Consultative Conference was held in Beijing, and National Flag of the People's Republic of China was unanimously adopted as a five-star red flag. On June 65438+1 October1day of the same year, the first five-star red flag was raised in Tiananmen Square. The red color on the national flag symbolizes the revolution, and the five five-pointed stars on the national flag and their relationship symbolize the great unity of the revolutionary people under the leadership of * * *. The stars are yellow. In order to show the light on the red earth, each of the four small five-pointed stars has a point facing the center of the big star, indicating that China is the core, which is also compact and beautiful in form.

The first national flag of China was produced in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, Li Hongzhang, a bureaucrat of the Westernization School of the Qing government, asked Empress Dowager Cixi to draw up a national flag and presented it with a national flag painted with tigers, leopards, lions, dragons, unicorns and gossip. Cixi decided to use Jinlong Banner as the national flag, commonly known as Huanglong Banner. Huanglongqi was originally triangular, but later it was changed into a rectangle. It was hung all over the country from 1900 until the demise of the Qing Dynasty.

19 1 1 year, the Revolution of 1911 overthrew the decadent rule of the Qing Dynasty. 17 On February 29th, representatives from all provinces held a meeting in Nanjing and unanimously elected Dr. Sun Yat-sen as interim president. The national flag of the Republic of China has also been drawn up by the delegates as a five-color flag of red, yellow, blue, white and black, which symbolizes the Republic of the five ethnic groups of Han, Manchu, Mongolia, Hui and Tibet.