![]() In 2005, Lê Minh Đức, an official of Tiền Giang province, suggested that the flag was designed by another cadre, Lê Quang Sô, a native of Mỹ Tho Province in the Mekong delta. In April 2001, Vietnam's Ministry of Culture reported that there was no documentation to support the claim that Tiến designed the flag. Yellow/Gold was a traditional color of Vietnam for more than 2,000 years. Yellow and red has long been common amongst Vietnamese flags. The five points of the star represents intellectuals, peasants, workers, traders and soldiers. According to a poem Tiến wrote, the red background came to represent the blood of the people, whilst the yellow foreground came to represent "the colour of our people’s skin" which was written during times of oppression from Japanese rule. ![]() Tiến, who was born in the northern village of Lũng Xuyên, was unknown to the Vietnamese public before Tùng's research was published. Sơn Tùng stated that the flag was designed by Nguyễn Hữu Tiến, a leader of the uprising who was arrested by the French in advance of the failed uprising and executed 28 August 1941. ![]() A series of articles by Sơn Tùng on the origin of the flag were published in the state media in 1981. The flag first appeared in the Southern uprising (Nam Kỳ Khởi nghĩa) of 23 November 1940, against French rule in southern Vietnam. The flag is blazoned: Gules, a mullet of five points or. According to the 1992 constitution: "The National Flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is rectangular in shape, its width is equal to two thirds of its length, in the middle of fresh red background is a bright five-pointed golden star". Vietnamese flag colours have often been various designs of red and bright yellow. The flag of Vietnam is the only flag amongst ASEAN that does not contain the colour white, with red and yellow/gold being its historical national colours. The red flag of North Vietnam was later adopted as the flag of the unified Vietnam in 1976. Until the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, South Vietnam used a yellow flag with three red stripes. The flag was modified on 30 November 1955 to make the rays of the star pointier. The DRV became the government of North Vietnam in 1954 following the Geneva Accords. At the end of World War II, Viet Minh leader Ho Chi Minh proclaimed Vietnam independent and signed a decree on 5 September 1945 adopting the Viet Minh flag as the flag of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The flag was used by the Viet Minh, a communist-led organization created in 1941 to oppose Japanese occupation. The golden star represents the five main classes in Vietnamese society-intellectuals, farmers, workers, entrepreneurs, and soldiers. The red background symbolizes revolution and bloodshed. 'flag of the Fatherland'), was designed in 1940 and used during an uprising against the French in southern Vietnam that year. 'red flag with a golden star' ) and also cờ Tổ quốc ( lit. The national flag of Vietnam, formally the National Flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ( Vietnamese: Quốc kỳ nước Cộng hoà xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam), locally recognized as cờ đỏ sao vàng ( lit. Vietnam People's Navy, with the influence from the naval ensign of the Soviet Navy Cờ đỏ sao vàng ("red flag with a golden star")Ģ3 November 1940 82 years ago ( ) (Cochinchina uprising)Ģ September 1945 78 years ago ( ) ( Democratic Republic of Vietnam)ġ955 68 years ago ( 1955) (current version)ġ976 47 years ago ( 1976) ( reunified Socialist Republic of Vietnam)Ī large yellow star centered on a red field.Ī golden star centered on a red field, and yellow words Quyết thắng (Determining to win) in the upper canton.ĭesign is a variant of the flag of Vietnamįlag of the Vietnam People's Public SecurityĪ golden star centered on a red field, and yellow motto Bảo vệ an ninh Tổ quốc (Protecting the security of the Fatherland) in the upper canton.Ī white flag with an emblem referring the Vietnam People's Navy in the top with the red label Hải quân Việt Nam (Navy of Vietnam) and a blue strip below.
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