I posted a post about the Chinese national flag last night, but I didn't expect so many objections, so I'm planning to use another solution to replace it.
After the booming development of the Polish ball community on the Chinese Internet, a series of rules for the Chinese dynasty were produced and accepted by most people. Below, I will introduce the details of this rule.
The main attribute used in this scheme is the Five Elements attribute belonging to the dynasty, but some dynasties have more controversial attributes, while others have not determined their attributes.
There will be an additional set of rules for the dynasty in this situation.
Firstly, let's introduce the rules of dynastic attribute changes.
The five virtues represented by the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. 'End' refers to the cyclical operation of the 'Five Virtues'. Zou Yan often uses this theory to explain historical changes and the rise and fall of dynasties.
The historical view of Zou Yan, a yin-yang scholar during the Warring States period in China. The "Five Virtues" refer to the five virtues or qualities of earth, wood, metal, fire, and water. The 'Five Virtues End to End' refers to the cyclical movement of these five properties from beginning to end and from end to end, which Zou Yan used as the basis for historical changes and dynastic succession.
He believes that the history of Yu/Shun（虞/舜）, Xia（夏）, Yin/Shang（殷/商）, and Zhou（周） is a process of transformation between victory and defeat. It has a phased nature based on the successive victories of soil, wood, metal, fire, and water, and a cyclical pattern of starting from soil, ending at water, and moving to soil. The contradictory movement of "yin-yang messages" drives the "five virtues transfer" and determines the "rise and fall of the current world". At every stage of development where wood triumphs over earth, gold triumphs over wood, fire triumphs over gold, and water triumphs over fire, there exists a contradiction and struggle between the forces of yin and yang. History belongs to the victors in struggle. And this kind of mutual victory of the Five Virtues is predetermined by the mechanical cycle law, which believes that the rise of a dynasty must be symbolized and verified by the will of heaven and fortune. This theory of the correspondence between heaven and man served the emerging ruling forces during the downfall of the Zhou Dynasty and the rise of the Qin Dynasty. The Five Virtues theory has had a profound impact. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a saying that "Fengtian Chengyun（承运） Emperor" inherited a certain "virtue" fortune.
The five virtues correspond to the five traditional colors of China and are used to determine the base color of the dynasty flag.However, the five colors only have approximate names to determine their range, without specific color values. Therefore, for the sake of aesthetics, colors from cultural relics were selected to define these color values.
Gold is white, wood is cyan, water is black, fire is red, and earth is yellow.
The Dashun Dynasty established by Li Zicheng was an unstable peasant army lacking cultural literacy, so their attribute was water but they worshiped blue, so they prepared special color values for Dashun.The Zhou Dynasty established by Wu Sangui also worshipped blue, so the base color of their national flag should be the same as that of Dashun.
These colors are only suggested values and have nothing to do with the dynasty at that time. You can modify them freely, but don't deviate too much.
Due to the established national flag of the Qing Dynasty, the color of the Qing Dynasty should be the same as the yellow color of the national flag.254,206,27
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, Chinese dynasties lacked iconic emblems and flags. Since there were significant differences in artistic processing, the image on the base color of the flag used the mainstream text of the dynasty at that time as the symbol.
Regarding the selection of text:
The special rules for dynasties without confirmed attributes mentioned earlier：
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For enthusiasts of ancient history:
These are the flags of the seven major feudal states during the Warring States period
You can notice that the colors of Qi and Zhao are slightly different, because historical records show that they preferred this color. Especially in the state of Qi, there is a preference for purple, which has unique attributes and belongs to both fire and metal
After the booming development of the Polish ball community on the Chinese Internet, a series of rules for the Chinese dynasty were produced and accepted by most people. Below, I will introduce the details of this rule.
The main attribute used in this scheme is the Five Elements attribute belonging to the dynasty, but some dynasties have more controversial attributes, while others have not determined their attributes.
There will be an additional set of rules for the dynasty in this situation.
Firstly, let's introduce the rules of dynastic attribute changes.
The five virtues represented by the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. 'End' refers to the cyclical operation of the 'Five Virtues'. Zou Yan often uses this theory to explain historical changes and the rise and fall of dynasties.
The historical view of Zou Yan, a yin-yang scholar during the Warring States period in China. The "Five Virtues" refer to the five virtues or qualities of earth, wood, metal, fire, and water. The 'Five Virtues End to End' refers to the cyclical movement of these five properties from beginning to end and from end to end, which Zou Yan used as the basis for historical changes and dynastic succession.
He believes that the history of Yu/Shun（虞/舜）, Xia（夏）, Yin/Shang（殷/商）, and Zhou（周） is a process of transformation between victory and defeat. It has a phased nature based on the successive victories of soil, wood, metal, fire, and water, and a cyclical pattern of starting from soil, ending at water, and moving to soil. The contradictory movement of "yin-yang messages" drives the "five virtues transfer" and determines the "rise and fall of the current world". At every stage of development where wood triumphs over earth, gold triumphs over wood, fire triumphs over gold, and water triumphs over fire, there exists a contradiction and struggle between the forces of yin and yang. History belongs to the victors in struggle. And this kind of mutual victory of the Five Virtues is predetermined by the mechanical cycle law, which believes that the rise of a dynasty must be symbolized and verified by the will of heaven and fortune. This theory of the correspondence between heaven and man served the emerging ruling forces during the downfall of the Zhou Dynasty and the rise of the Qin Dynasty. The Five Virtues theory has had a profound impact. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a saying that "Fengtian Chengyun（承运） Emperor" inherited a certain "virtue" fortune.
The five virtues correspond to the five traditional colors of China and are used to determine the base color of the dynasty flag.However, the five colors only have approximate names to determine their range, without specific color values. Therefore, for the sake of aesthetics, colors from cultural relics were selected to define these color values.
Gold is white, wood is cyan, water is black, fire is red, and earth is yellow.
The Dashun Dynasty established by Li Zicheng was an unstable peasant army lacking cultural literacy, so their attribute was water but they worshiped blue, so they prepared special color values for Dashun.The Zhou Dynasty established by Wu Sangui also worshipped blue, so the base color of their national flag should be the same as that of Dashun.
These colors are only suggested values and have nothing to do with the dynasty at that time. You can modify them freely, but don't deviate too much.
Due to the established national flag of the Qing Dynasty, the color of the Qing Dynasty should be the same as the yellow color of the national flag.254,206,27
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, Chinese dynasties lacked iconic emblems and flags. Since there were significant differences in artistic processing, the image on the base color of the flag used the mainstream text of the dynasty at that time as the symbol.
Regarding the selection of text:
- A script that has been designated as the official script of the country，For example, the Phag's-pa used in the Yuan Dynasty
- The script used by the dominant ethnic group，For example, the Jurchen script of the Jin Dynasty and the Khitan script of the Liao Dynasty
- When there are multiple characters, they should be written according to the writing habits of the time, for example, the country name of Western Xia needs to be written vertically.
- The country name can be abbreviated or used as a whole, for example, Da Ming, which can be written vertically with the two characters Da Ming or a single character Ming
- If the national flag has a black background, use white font, and in all other cases, use black font.
The special rules for dynasties without confirmed attributes mentioned earlier：
- There are clear archaeological data and historical records that dynasties worship colors to determine the base color, such as Li Zicheng's Dashun.
- It is determined to be the restoration of the previously destroyed regime, according to the color scheme of the previous regime. For example, the Western Chu established by Xiang Yu can use the color scheme of the Chu state during the Warring States period.
- Referring to the theory of the Five Elements' mutual restraint to determine color matching, for example, Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi regime did not determine its own attributes, but because the Ming Dynasty belonged to fire, Daxi should belong to water and be black.
- The previous article is only applicable to directly related dynasties, and it is not possible to infer the color of the rebels who rebelled against this dynasty after a certain dynasty has been identified as an attribute.
- The color scheme of secondary regimes with subordinate relationships is the same as that of the main regimes, such as the Ming Dynasty's tusi, Uszang Dusi, and Nurgan Dusi
- Colors with clear archaeological evidence, such as Korea's reverence for white.（I know this example is not very good, but I can't think of any other examples.）
For enthusiasts of ancient history:
These are the flags of the seven major feudal states during the Warring States period
You can notice that the colors of Qi and Zhao are slightly different, because historical records show that they preferred this color. Especially in the state of Qi, there is a preference for purple, which has unique attributes and belongs to both fire and metal
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