
There are several versions of the interpretation to be given to the five yellow stars of the flag of the People's Republic of China.
According to official sources (IRC)
The Constitution of the People's Republic of China, adopted in 1982 states that China has used the flag and emblem that had been selected on the eve of the proclamation of the People's Republic on 1 October 1949, at the 1st Political Consultative Conference of the Chinese people.
In June 1949, during the first meeting of the Preparatory Committee of the Political Consultative Conference a committee was formed with the mandate to draft a flag, emblem and national anthem. The group inquired from various circles of project proposals and, in a month, received 4912 draft flag and emblem in 1120. Can a project has ended up being chosen. Its designer is Liansong Weng, who worked at the Agency of Modern Economics in Shanghai.
The national flag of the People's Republic of China is a red flag rectangular format (3x2), which carries top five-star yellow left: a large and four small. The five yellow stars and five branches are concentrated in the upper left of the flag, and four smaller ones form a semi-circle on the right of a star greater. The five stars symbolize the great unity of the people (small star), around the Chinese Communist Party, the great star. Red is the symbol of the revolution and the yellow, the light flooding the Chinese territory.
The red flag with five stars was hoisted for the first time on Tiananmen Square on 1 October 1949. Since that day, he became the national flag and is listed as such in the Constitutions of 1954, 1975, 1978 and 1982.
Other sources are also less formal version
1 - The red flag is the traditional color of revolution, the large gold star represents "the Common Program of the Communist Party" and smaller gold stars represent the four classes united by the joint program:
* Workers (工Gong)
* Farmers (农nóng)
* The "petty bourgeoisie" (城市小资产Chengshi xiǎozīchǎn or more classically商Shang: trader, dealer)
* The "patriotic capitalists" (民族资产minzu zīchǎn, or more classically学xue: scholar)
2 - There is another interpretation that relates to the period of the founding of the Republic of China by Sun Yat-sen (1911): The large star represents the majority population, the Han (ethnic Chinese speaking); four small, four main minorities at the time: Manchus, Tibetans, Mongols and Huis (满藏蒙回) today and ethnic minorities in general.
The number five (there are five stars on the flag) has traditionally been a splendid figure in Chinese culture, like the color red, which by happy coincidence is also the symbol of the socialist revolution.
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