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Five-star red flags, bright flags, fluttering in the wind, and loud victory songs. "This is the classic melody of "Singing the Motherland". On September 12, 1951, the prime minister personally issued the people's order, and this song sounded all over the country, and since then, it has become the opening song, the ending song, and the ceremonial song of China's major events.
With the melody of this song, the five-star red flag slowly rose and became an irreplaceable part. The five-star red flag, as the national flag of New China, has appeared in various places in China, whether it is a school, a factory, a square, or in people's hearts.
But, you know what? The origin of the five-star red flag has not been smooth sailing. In the selection process of the national flag, the No. 3 work (one star and one bar) was far ahead, with a total of 342 people voting for it, while the five-star red flag only received 5 votes, which was not even a fraction of others.
However, the words of Peace General Zhang Zhizhong woke up ***, so that the five-star red flag won the support of 5 votes, and finally became the national flag of China. Today, the five-star red flag is widely respected and loved at home and abroad, and it represents the unity and courage of the Chinese people, as well as Chinese history and culture.
With the end of the three major battles, the Chinese People's Liberation Army has already won the victory, and the victory in the battle of crossing the river has sounded the death knell for the Kuomintang. With the continuous advancement of liberation, the CCP decided to move from Xibaipo to Beiping City and began to prepare for the founding of New China.
New China is about to be founded, and the design of the national flag must also be paid attention to, because the national flag is a symbol and symbol of a country and will be unveiled at the founding ceremony. In July 1949, influential newspapers such as People's ** and Guangming ** published a call for papers.
Since the national flag has a great impact on a country, and our party always keeps in mind the strength of relying on the masses of the people, it also mobilizes the power of the masses in the design of the national flag.
For example, the national flag should have Chinese characteristics, preferably reflecting the history created by the people of Chinese and culture with Chinese characteristics, and at the same time, having China's geographical characteristics is also a reference condition.
This is a very reasonable request, not only in China, but also in flags all over the world. For example, the eagle, snake and cactus on the Mexican flag represent the history and legends of Mexico and the desert characteristics of Mexico, and the Star-Spangled Banner of the United States and the flag of the Soviet Union are also unique.
In the process of selecting the national flag, all walks of life have contributed, and even Mr. Zhu has designed a work (compound word No. 15).
You can see it, the main color is red, which is the regulation of the ** department. You must know that the history of modern China is full of humiliation, in order to break this situation, the people of Chinese launched one revolutionary war after another, and many people with lofty ideals sacrificed their precious lives for the cause of the liberation of the country and the nation in the baptism of blood and fire.
The Communist Party is the same, from weak to strong, it has experienced countless hardships, countless outstanding comrades have died bravely under the enemy's **, and the glory is forged with blood, so the national flag must also reflect this characteristic.
Although Mr. Zhu's works are also mainly red, his design still has some dissatisfaction, and the most important thing is that the layout of this work is somewhat similar to the national flag of China, so the vote rate is not very high.
At this time, works from all over the world were also sent to Beijing one after another to participate in the selection.
Among these entries, the five-pointed star appears very frequently, and almost every work has it or a sickle or hammer. The design of the five-pointed star was inspired by the military flag of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was an armed force under the leadership of the Communist Party, which in the early days was responsible for the task of defending **, spreading red ideas, and waging the agrarian revolution. The Red Army was like a star in the sky, illuminating the darkness, breaking the rule of the old society and bringing hope to the people.
The Communist Party, on the other hand, was seen as the savior of the Chinese people, overthrowing the rule of the Kuomintang reactionaries and driving out the feudal landlords, so whenever people recall New China, they will think of the hope and the Red Army of the past.
The pentagram left a deep impression on people's hearts, and this was fully demonstrated in the entries, and the pentagram can almost be said to be the desired one. Among the many works, the No. 3 work has attracted the attention of the public with its unique charm.
Title: Work No. 3: Simple but not simple, the deep meaning behind the design of the five-star red flag Text: Work No. 3, designed by Zheng Kaodu, is presented in an extremely concise form.
On the flag, a bright five-pointed star hangs high with a yellow horizontal bar below, and the theme color of the flag is red. Regarding the ** of the five-pointed star, its symbolic meaning as the military flag of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army is self-evident.
The yellow horizontal bar represents China's mother river, the Yellow River, which is the source of Chinese civilization, and is revered by the Chinese as the "mother river". The color of the Yellow River is not clear and transparent, but a turbid yellow, so the yellow horizontal bar on the national flag perfectly interprets this characteristic of the Chinese nation.
The five-pointed star on the national flag symbolizes the party, the yellow horizontal bar symbolizes the national character, and the red color symbolizes the Chinese revolution, which makes the No. 3 work very well received.
In the voting, work No. 3 received 342 votes, overpowering the other works and becoming the focus of the audience. However, it was under such circumstances that the five-star red flag almost failed to enter the second election.
This simple design has a deep meaning behind it. Red represents the revolution, yellow represents national characteristics, and the five-pointed star is the symbol of the party.
This combination, which preserves elements of tradition but also gives new meanings, makes it stand out from the crowd. This is not only the design of a national flag, but also a symbol of a nation and the pride of a country.
Zeng Liansong's design is the original appearance of the five-star red flag, the hammer and sickle symbolizes the socialist nature of our country, and the design of the five-pointed star comes from the military flag of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and the four small gold stars represent the working class, the peasant class, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie.
These small Venus stars are all facing the big gold, symbolizing their support for the leadership of the Communist Party. Although Zeng Liansong is not a professional designer, he was full of excitement when he saw the national flag solicitation and decided to make a modest contribution to the establishment of New China.
His design was almost eliminated in the primary, but Tian Han insisted on it in the audition. In the end, Zeng Liansong's design became the national flag of New China.
On the evening of September 23, 1949, Peng Guanghan recommended the design scheme of "Fu Zi No. 32" to ***, and ** was satisfied with this and asked the audit team to draw a larger pattern, ready to be taken to *** for review.
It is worth mentioning that the flag selection group eliminated the symbol of the sickle and hammer, because the big gold star is enough to reflect the Chinese Communist Party, and the symbol of the sickle and hammer is no longer so important.
Regarding the little gold star of the bourgeoisie, the audit team did not revise it, because *** mentioned the existence of the urban petty bourgeoisie in "On People's Democracy**", although they have a certain reason for their existence, they do not need to be denied in all aspects, but should be regarded as a part of the need for transformation, rather than blindly erased.
When it came to the discussion of which work to use for the national flag, work No. 3 received the support of the majority, and if there were no accidents, work No. 3 should have been chosen as the national flag.
However, life is always full of surprises, and discussions are no exception. At this extremely critical moment, General Wen Bai (Zhang Zhizhong) suddenly raised his voice of opposition. He objected to the design of the Yellow River pattern as the national flag, because the red national flag represented the country and the revolution, and the bar in the middle was easily reminiscent of the country and the revolution.
At the same time, he believes that it is also unscientific to represent the Yellow River with a bar, because ordinary people will associate it with a stick, like the golden hoop stick of Sun Monkey in "Journey to the West". General Wen Bai was a second-class general of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army, served as chairman of Hunan Province, and was one of Chiang Kai-shek's Eight King Kongs.
During the War of Liberation, many Kuomintang people joined the revolutionary ranks, and General Wen Bai was one of them. Unlike other rebel generals, General Wen Bai maintained a friendly attitude with the Communist Party for a long time, and did his best to maneuver in the peace talks, trying to make peace negotiations between the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Kuomintang peaceful.
His contribution to peace cannot be ignored, and he was praised as a "man who truly hoped for peace" and "a patriot".
Their affirmation is enough to prove General Wen Bai's contribution to peace and the fairness of the Chinese Communist Party's view of him.
The Kuomintang rebel generals were not eligible to participate in the national flag discussion, and most of those who were able to participate in the national flag discussion were communists, democrats, and overseas Chinese.
Among them, Zhang Zhizhong is the only exception of the Kuomintang members. He raised objections, which made *** start to pay attention. Although the Kuomintang rebel generals did not participate in the discussion, we cannot ignore their great contributions to the establishment of New China.
Fu Zuoyi liberated Beiping peacefully, Cheng Qian liberated Hunan peacefully, and Tao Zhiyue and Lu Han liberated Xinjiang and Yunnan peacefully, and their contributions cannot be erased. In addition, the whole country has not been completely liberated, and Chiang Kai-shek led the remnants of the defeated army to retreat to the Taiwan region, and this yellow horizontal bar can represent the Yellow River, but not the Taiwan Strait.
Bai Chongxi and others have been trying to set up the Northern and Southern Dynasties, hoping to divide the river with the Communist Party, and they may maliciously interpret this matter. Tan Kah Kee, a patriotic overseas Chinese leader who participated in the discussion, also began to speak out against it, believing that the design of one star and one bar was indeed inappropriate.
Chen Jiageng devoted his life to national reunification, and in his later years, he specially invited someone to engrave the words "the whole map of Taiwan Province" in the Ao Garden in Fujian, which shows that he never forgot the great cause of national reunification.
The first yellow horizontal bar really struck a chord with many people, especially the generals of the Kuomintang rebel army and overseas Chinese. They were all thinking about how far the revolution should go, how far emancipation should go.
In this regard, ** gradually shifted his attention from "No. 3 work" to other works, because he believed that the design of the "five-star red flag" could better reflect the unity of the Chinese revolutionary people.
Unity is strength, which is also the theme of the famous military song "Unity is Strength" of the first squadron. Our party has always attached importance to unity, and during the revolution, it also united all the forces that could be united, and finally won the victory in the war of liberation.
After the founding of New China, we should pay more attention to unity, unite the working class, the peasant class, the urban petty bourgeoisie, the national bourgeoisie, and other classes to jointly build New China.
Mr. Tan Kah Kee also actively lobbied the public that the characteristics of a country's power are more important than the geographical features, and the symbolism of the yellow horizontal bar should not be overemphasized. On the evening of September 25, 1949, another symposium was held to discuss the national flag, and it was finally decided that the five-star red flag was the national flag of New China.
The five-star red flag symbolizes the great unity of the Chinese people and expresses the great importance we attach to unity. In the "People's **" the next day, the "five-star flag of the red land" was changed to the "five-star red flag", and since then the five-star red flag has fluttered in the hearts of the Chinese people.
Mr. Zeng Liansong, the national flag of the People's Republic of China designed by you has been adopted. We will present you with a commemorative book of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, 5 million yuan (the currency value at that time), which you can receive through the post office and the People's Bank of China.
This is a token of gratitude and respect for your contribution to the country. The old $1,000,000 was converted into $100,000, which was a lot of money at the time.
However, you are not thrilled by the money, what you are really excited about is that your design is adopted, which is your glory and your dream. After you retired, it was suggested that you use your status to open a "Tsang Lian Song Banner Store", but you never agreed.
You are deeply in love with the ideas of New China and full of longing for the revolution, how can you possibly take advantage of this opportunity to make money? On October 19, 1999, Mr. Zeng Liansong died in Shanghai at the age of 82.
Before he died, he left this sentence: "To draw the national flag in your heart, the most important thing is whether you have that emotion for the country in your heart." ”