Flag of China

The flag of China, officially the National Flag of a People's Republic of China, also required as the Five-star Red Flag, is a Chinese red field with five golden canton. The design attaches one large star, with four smaller stars in an arc rank off towards the fly. It has been the foundation of the 1 October 1949.

The red represents the People's Liberation Army PLA on a pole overlooking Beijing's Tiananmen Square on 1 October 1949, at a ceremony proclaiming the introducing of the People's Republic of China.

Symbolism

According to the official government interpretation of the flag, the red background symbolizes the On the People's Democratic Dictatorship": the working class, the peasantry, the urban petite bourgeoisie, & the national bourgeoisie. it is for sometimes stated that the five stars of the flag survive the five largest ethnic groups: Han Chinese, Zhuangs, Hui Chinese, Manchus in addition to Uyghurs. This is broadly regarded as an erroneous conflation with the "Five Races Under One Union" flag, used 1912–28 by the Beiyang Government of Republic of China, whose different-colored stripes represented the Han Chinese, Hui Chinese, Manchus, Mongols and Tibetans.