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Esteban Rivera, 29 September 2014
Can you help me identify
this flag?
It is a red horizontal flag with yellow inscription in (what seems to be)
Mandarin.
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152331549146681&set=pcb.782025705177451&type=1&relevant_count=4
Esteban Rivera, 29 September 2014
It reads "She-heroes of the barracks".
Miles Li, 30 September 2014
Is there any information in the caption of the photograph?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 21 April 2015
Unfortunately the link is broken (image)
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152331549146681&set=pcb.782025705177451&type=1&relevant_count=4
Still, I don't recall it having a picture caption though.
Esteban Rivera, 21 April 2015
There are characters in the image of the photograph, below the photograph
itself.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 21 April 2015
The caption translates as "Walk across the river, a horse length ahead.
Photo: Zhu Wei."
(You might have noticed that I did not bother to reply to this thread until now.
As far as I am concerned this is not an official military flag, but simply one
of those slogan banners much used in Communist Chinese propaganda.)
Miles Li, 25 May 2015
Finally the mysterious text issue has been solved. Actually this kind of flag
was (or something has been) very popular and frequently used in the former
Communist countries.
Zoltan Horvath, 25 May 2015
That doesn't bring us much further either, regarding the people involved. But
at least now we know that it doesn't.
It would seem quite relevant to know that Communist Chinese propaganda uses a
lot of slogan banners, and whether or not all of the photographs on this page
fall in that category.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 25 May 2015
Also agree with Peter Hans on this one as well. It seems these are
"promotional banners" (to say the least) and maybe (or maybe not) are
commercially available. Which leads me to another example: Iran has also another
"inspirational banner" which is not of official use but its use is widespread,
such as the Ya
Hussein flag. And here's another example where a "motivational (or
promotional) flag" is in use, this time, in the Colombian Army, where for a
publicity campaign to promote the core values of the Army, they created this
flag called "Fé en la causa".
I would even think that these flags evolved from merely
decoration banners, into esprit-de-corps (if
I'm allowed to call them that) banners, as we can see them today in this three
cases for instance.
So, as obvious as it might be, we can see several other cases in other countries
where this types of flags do exist and are recurrent, so the discussion is worth
at least so other readers are aware of what they actually are and what they
actually stando for.
Esteban Rivera, 25 May 2015
