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Flag Duration Use Description 1 July 1997 – present: Flag of Hong Kong [2]: A white, five-petal Bauhinia blakeana on a red field with 1 star on each of the petals. The Chinese name of Bauhinia × blakeana has also been frequently shortened as 紫荊/紫荆 (洋 yáng means "foreign" in Chinese, and this would be deemed inappropriate by the PRC government), although 紫荊/紫荆 refers to ...
This image is used on a user page of a Wikimedia user and is stored on Commons according to the rules set out in Commons:Project scope#File in use on Commons only: the uploading of small numbers of images (e.g. of yourself) for use on a personal Commons user page is allowed or Commons:Project scope#File in use in another Wikimedia project: the uploading of small numbers of images (e.g. of ...
English: National flag proposed by Wu Yuzhang for the People's Republic of China in August, 1949. It contains a wreath of wheat surrounding the Chinese character signifying labour (all coloured golden yellow), all on a field of Chinese red
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The early Chinese Republic's army flag should also be included (this seems to have been important in the 1920's). There's a version of it at Image:Sjxqi.gif, but the proportions may not be quite right there (see a historic depiction in Image:Republic of China Flags.jpg).
The previous flag of China was the "Yellow Dragon Flag" used by the Qing dynasty — the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history— from 1862 until the overthrow of the monarchy during the 1911 Revolution. The flag that was adopted in 1862 was triangular, but the dynasty adopted a rectangular version of the dragon flag in 1889.
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