The Origin and Story of the Five-Star Red Flag: Notes on the Origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Origin of the National Flag: The national flag of China people is a red five-star red flag with an aspect ratio of 3:2. There are five yellow five-pointed stars on the upper left, and four small stars are arched on the right side of a big star, each with a corner pointing directly at the center of the big star. The designer of China national flag is Zeng Song Lian from Ruian, Zhejiang. With the victory of the China Communist Party in the Liberation War, the Preparatory Committee of the New Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) issued a notice to solicit national flag patterns in July 1949, and designed and submitted its national flag samples. Among 2992 national flag designs, Zeng's design was selected as 38 candidate sketches. After many discussions and minor revisions, his design was chosen as the national flag of the new regime. Extended data:

1June 1949 15, the first plenary meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the new CPPCC was held in Zhongnanhai. The meeting set up six groups, of which the sixth group was responsible for drafting the national flag, national emblem and national anthem. The preparatory meeting will issue a call for papers through newspapers. In the end, * * * received a total of 2,992 national flag design drafts, of which 38 stood out. Many designers have drawn horizontal lines symbolizing the Yangtze River and the Yellow River on the national flag, but some people say that the yellow line divides the red land, just like the national division. Therefore, the style with horizontal lines was not adopted. After layers of screening and group discussion, the "Red Five-Star Red Flag" designed by Shanghai has finally attracted people's attention: one big star represents the China Producer Party, and four small stars represent the working class, the peasant class, the national bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie respectively. Every little star has an angle pointing to the center of the big star and surrounding it to show unity. Finally, this design draft was slightly modified, and it was confirmed as the national flag of the people of China at the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference on September 27th, 1949.