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image by Miles Li, 26 March 2014
The sun construction is best shown in the national Coat of Arms
(featured on the presidential flag). The sun relative
construction details are preserved on all flags. The Coat of Arms is
blue disk with radius three times the radius of the white sun
disk concentric with it. The rays reach the edges of an
imaginary circle double the diameter of the sun disk. The
rays are constructed as a 12 pointed star, lines connecting
every 5th vertex (i.e. star shapes equals 4 in mathematical
language, or density equals 5). The diameter of the disk
forming the blue fimbriation between the sun disk and the
rays is 17/15 of the diameter of the sun disk (i.e. the width
of the blue ring is 1/15 of the diameter of the sun disk).
Željko Heimer, 02 February 2003
Since 17 December 1928, image seen above has been the de jure National Emblem
of ROC. Nonetheless, since ROC was practically a one-party state under the
Nationalist Party (Kuomintang), and given the similarities between the National
Emblem and the Kuomintang Emblem, image seen below was de facto used as the national
emblem, including on the majority of ROC flags.
The
Air Force Flags Act of 1948 (now obsolete) perfectly illustrates this point.
Although the text specifies that the Air Force Flag should have the National
Emblem, the drawings show the Kuomintang Emblem instead.
This state of affair persisted until around 1992, when the end of authoritarian
rule in Taiwan meant there has to be a clear separation between the National
Emblem and the Kuomintang Emblem. Consequently the use of Kuomintang Emblem as the
national emblem, including on flags, have gradually been replaced be National
Emblem (seen above).
Miles Li, 26 March 2014
image by Miles Li, 26 March 2014