Flag of China

The national flag of the People's Republic of China is a Chinese red field with five golden stars charged at the canton. The design features one large star, with four smaller stars in an arc set off towards the fly. The five stars and their relationships to each other represent the unity of the Chinese people, symbolized by four smaller stars, under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), symbolized by the large star. The red represents the Chinese Communist Revolution. It is commonly called the "Five-star Red Flag" in China.

According to the official interpretation of the flag, the red background symbolizes the Chinese Communist Revolution. The five stars and their relationship represents the unity of the "whole Chinese people" led by the Chinese Communist Party. According to China Daily, the orientation of the stars "represent all hearts of millions of the people toward [the] great Communist Party of China". At its conception, the larger star symbolized the CCP, and the four smaller stars symbolized the four social classes of China's New Democracy mentioned in Mao Zedong's "On the People's Democratic Dictatorship": the working class, the peasantry, the urban petite bourgeoisie, and the national bourgeoisie. The 1992 National Flag Law and the 1991 National Emblem Law describe the stars as "symbols of the People's Republic of China" generally, and do not define what they stand for specifically.An official youth study guide describes the stars as the "CPC and the people of all nationalities around the country." It is sometimes incorrectly stated that the five stars of the flag represent the five largest ethnic groups in China: Han, Zhuang, Hui, Manchu, and Uyghur. This is generally regarded as an…