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Why is the five-star red flag so bright red?

why is the five-star red flag so red? It is the menstrual blood of the ancestor of the Chinese nation, Nu Wa. Menstrual blood is sacred and pure in primitive humans, which embodies the aesthetic significance of life in which everything is endless. Such as "Shuo Wen Jie Zi": "Well, the ancient sacred woman is also the one who transforms everything."

The myth of The goddess patching the sky actually symbolizes primitive people's hazy understanding of the imbalance between Yin and Yang, and indirectly reflects the struggle between primitive people and nature through the myth of The goddess patching the sky, which is the process of replenishing Yang.

when yin and yang are out of balance, "the four poles are abolished, Kyushu is split, and the sky does not overlap, and the earth is not well-balanced; The fire will not die, and the water will never stop; The beast eats the people, and the stork grabs the old and the weak. " In order to save the whole life from hanging upside down, Nu Wa refined the five-color stone "to make up for its deficiency", and those who lacked it were also lacking. Five-color is the color of yin, and five-color stone is the thing that nourishes yin. The function of using five-color stone to tonify heaven is to regulate yin deficiency, yang deficiency and yin excess. It is in this sense that tonifying heaven is also to tonify yang.

let's talk about five stars.

The five stars as a whole imply harmony. This idea originated from Yi Zhuan: "Heaven and Man are in harmony" and "Heaven and Man are in harmony", and another example is Yi Zhuan's "The way to establish heaven is yin and yang, the way to stand on the ground is soft and rigid, and the way to establish man is benevolence and righteousness". The five-star red flag emphasizes the unity and harmony of heaven, earth and man as a whole. The big five-pointed star on the upper left, that is, the yellow land, is not to say that "a handful of loess is wrapped in China culture". The big five-pointed star is on the left of the red flag, and there is a four-star (Jin Mu soil and water) vault next to it, so as to highlight the dignified culture of China and show those who never forget their roots.

The five-star red flag outlines a harmonious and prosperous picture for us: "Sincere inner shape, aerodynamic in the sky, jing xing sees, Huanglong falls, Phoenix emperor arrives", "Animals and snakes all hide their claws, hide their poison, and have no intention of grabbing and biting."