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Blue Sky White Sun Kuomintang Flag & Five-Colored Flag of the Republic 20 Cash Hunan China Authentic Coin Money for Jewelry (Rice) (1919)
Blue Sky White Sun Kuomintang Flag & Five-Colored Flag of the Republic 20 Cash Hunan China Authentic Coin Money for Jewelry (Rice) (1919)
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Blue Sky White Sun Kuomintang Flag and Five-Colored Flag of the Republic 20 Cash Hunan China Authentic Coin Money for Jewelry and Craft Making (Rice Plant) (1919) (Copper Coin)
CONDITION: GOOD
Reverse: Crossed flags with flower above and florals on either side, all with Chinese ideograms above and below.
Lettering:
造省南湖
元銅十二當
Translation:
Made in Hunnan Province
Worth 20 copper coins
Obverse: Rice plant with five ears and ribbon at base, all surrounded by English legend.
Lettering: THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA
TWENTY CASH
Features
Issuer Hunan Province
Period Province of the Republic of China (1912-1949)
Type Standard circulation coin
Year 1919
Value 20 Cash (0.02)
Composition Copper
Weight 9.57 g
Diameter 32 mm
Thickness 1.5 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number N# 296819
References Y# 400
Wikipedia:
The Blue Sky with a White Sun (Chinese: 青天白日; pinyin: Qīngtīan Báirì) serves as the design for the party flag and emblem of the Kuomintang (KMT), the canton of the flag of the Republic of China, the national emblem of the Republic of China, and as the naval jack of the ROC Navy.
In the "Blue Sky with a White Sun" symbol, the twelve rays of the white Sun representing the twelve months and the twelve traditional Chinese hours (時辰; shíchen), each of which corresponds to two modern hours and symbolizes the spirit of progress.
The "Blue Sky with a White Sun" flag was originally designed by Lu Hao-tung, a martyr of the Republican revolution. He presented his design to represent the revolutionary army at the inauguration of the Society for Regenerating China, an anti-Qing society in Hong Kong, on February 21, 1895.
During the Wuchang Uprising in 1911 that heralded the Republic of China, the various revolutionary armies had different flags. Lu Hao-tung's "Blue Sky with a White Sun" flag was used in the southern provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou, while the "18-Star Flag", "Five-Colored Flag", and other designs were used elsewhere.
When the government of the Republic of China was established on January 1, 1912, The "Five-Colored" flag was adopted as the national flag, but Sun Yat-sen did not consider its design appropriate, reasoning that horizontal order implied a hierarchy or class like that which existed during dynastic times. Thus, when he established a rival government in Guangzhou in 1917, he brought over the "Blue Sky with a White Sun" flag for the party and the "Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth" (青天白日滿地紅) flag, which was then the naval ensign, for the nation. This officially became the national flag in 1928 while the "Blue Sky with a White Sun" flag was adopted as the naval jack.
The "Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth" flag has remained the flag of the Republic of China to this day.
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Wikipedia:
The first flag of the Republic of China, or "Five-colored flag", was widely flown even before the Republic of China in Shanghai and eastern parts of north China until 1928. The stripe representation: red for Han Chinese, yellow for Manchus, blue for Mongols, white for Hui and black for Tibetans. Later used by the Japanese puppet states of the East Hebei Autonomous Government, the Chinese Provisional Government and Reformed Government of China.
Five Races Under One Union was one of the major principles upon which the Republic of China was founded in 1911 at the time of the Xinhai Revolution.
This principle emphasized harmony between what were considered the five major ethnic groups in China, as represented by the colored stripes of the Five-Colored Flag of the Republic: the Han (red); the Manchus (yellow); the Mongols (blue); the Hui (white); and the Tibetans (black).
The term 回, huí, primarily referred in this context to Muslims, as a whole, and as such for a certain period of time (before the Xinhai Revolution) the term also referred to the Uyghurs in Western China, since the term "Muslim Territory" (回疆; Huíjiāng) was an older name for Xinjiang during the Qing dynasty. The meaning of the term "Hui people" gradually shifted to its current sense—a group distinguished from Han Chinese by their Muslim faith and distant foreign ancestry—around 1911–49 in the Republic of China.
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