Flag of China

The name of the Chinese flag is " 五星红旗 " (Pinyin Wǔxīng hóngqí), which means " the red flag to the five étoiles". The large star symbolizes the Chinese Communist party and its direction on the nation.

There does not exist official interpretation of the significance of small stars pointing towards the large one. They would represent possibly the four various social classes according to the vision Chinese Socialiste:

the workers (工 gōng)
the peasants (农 nóng)
the " small bourgeoisie" (城市小资产 chéngshì xiǎozīchǎn; or more classically 商 shāng: trading, merchant)
" capitalists patriotes" (民族资产 mínzú zīchǎn, or more classically 学 xué: well-read man)

They indicate from now on all the social origins, without precision.

One finds the one second interpretation which refers to the period of the foundation of the République of China by Sun Yat-SEN (1911): the large star would represent the majority population, Hans (Chinese ethnos group strictly speaking); the four small ones, four principal minorities at the time: Manchu, Tibetans, Mongolian and Huis (满藏蒙回) and today ethnic minorities in general.

The figure five (there are five stars present on the flag) is traditionally a figure “ostentation” in the Chinese culture, just like the red color, which by a happy coincidence is also the symbol of the socialist revolution.

Symbolic range

The Chinese flag has strong identity emblems within the Chinese population, the more so as its colors come from traditional China, the yellow being the imperial color and most appreciated in China. It is sometimes associated with the most vehement demonstrations of Chinese nationalism.

Which it is necessary to associate the red as a dominant color used by the various imperial dynasties and which was reserved to them exclusively to cover the walls of the palates and temples built by each dynasty.

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