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The Military ranks of Imperial China were the military insignia used by the Military of the Qing dynasty, until the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor. Army ranks
Qualification badges (Chinese: 级别资历章) are a series of decorations of People's Liberation Army Type 07 in the form of small ribbons mounted on small metal bars indicating military rank, billet, or length of service. Only PLA/PAPF officers can wear qualification badges, PLA/PAPF soldiers wear National Defense Service Medal instead. [3]
English: Rank badge for a civil official. Embroidered silk showing a bird facing a sun disk surrounded by auspicious symbols. Ground of clouds with diagonal lines at bottom and meandering key border.
The nine-rank system, also known as the nine-grade controller system, was used to categorize and classify government officials in Imperial China.Created by the politician Chen Qun in the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms, it was used until the Song dynasty, and similar ranking systems were also present in the Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty.
The Qing dynasty, much like previous dynasties, used an "official rank" system (品; pǐn).This system had nine numbered ranks, each subdivided into upper and lower levels, in addition to the lowest "unranked" rank: from upper first pin (正一品), to lower ninth pin (從九品), to the unranked (未入流), for a total of 19 ranks.
English: Mandarin Square (P'u-Tzu) for military official of the second rank. Lion on a rock surrounded by wave and cloud forms as well as the Eight Auspicious Signs, worked in a tent stitch. Lion on a rock surrounded by wave and cloud forms as well as the Eight Auspicious Signs, worked in a tent stitch.
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A mandarin square (Chinese: 補子), also known as a rank badge, was a large embroidered badge sewn onto the surcoat of officials in Imperial China (decorating hanfu and qizhuang), Korea (decorating the gwanbok of the Joseon dynasty), in Vietnam, and the Ryukyu Kingdom. It was embroidered with detailed, colourful animal or bird insignia ...