The flowers of the Pentas are vivid and bright, just like the stars on the Five-Star Red Flag.

The flower on the Five-Star Red Flag, the Pentas. A golden flower, a holy flower. It is a flower that blooms from blazing flames, a flower that blooms amid blood and fire, blazing open with geometric beauty across the land of China, wherever Chinese people can reach.

Blue sky, red flag, golden stars - what a beautiful color combination. The Five-Star Red Flag - since that great man personally depicted you and raised you on the Tiananmen Rostrum in the October sunlight, 69 years have passed, and the Five-Star Red Flag has grown ever more flourishing and ever more brilliantly blooming, with a pleasant fragrance. It is a call of hope, a faith of strength, a symbol of unity.

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When Chinese athletes step onto the victory podium again and again, when Shenzhou reaches the heavens to embrace the moon again and again, when Jiaolong dives into the deep sea to catch turtles again and again, when a new generation of large jet airliners successfully takes off, when our country's first domestically built aircraft carrier is officially launched, when the Fuxing train runs across the fields of hope... those five golden stars shine even more radiantly, drawing the gaze of all, and the scenery here is uniquely beautiful.

The five stars on the national flag, the Pentas, with blood-red written across the warp and weft of plain cloth, and golden radiance shining over the land of China. The five stars on the national flag - they are the flowers of heroes, the flowers of peace, beautiful, brilliant, and grand. They gather the purification of the sun and moon and the soul of the nation. They are the fire of faith conjured from the will of Communists, the light of freedom condensed from the spirit of revolutionaries.

Five-Star Red Flag

The flower on the national flag, with the unyielding soul of the Great Wall, with the unrestrained bearing of the Yangtze River, with the height of Mount Everest, with the sincerity of 1.3 billion hearts, displays the grandeur of a nation. Therefore, if you understand those five golden flowers, you understand the very soul of a nation.

Look - the sun is rising, the starlight is rising, dignity is rising, will is rising, hope is rising!

Look - a hundred boats racing, a hundred flowers blooming in rivalry, a hundred birds paying homage to the phoenix, a thousand-ren peak, nine nines returning to one, ten thousand people of one heart!

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I am also the son of a farmer, and I always feel that the Five-Star Red Flag is a plant with very strong vitality, growing in fertile soil and in wind and rain. Whether on a school playground, on a sports field, at a border guard post, on the vast ocean, or in an embassy abroad... its vigorous sound of jointing can be heard, moving the sky and shaking the earth.

We should all be a tenacious Pentas. When we rouse ourselves into gold, we attain the perfection of moving from the minute to the sublime; when perfection marches beneath that banner in the posture of a march, our lives are blessed with happiness and good fortune shining over us.