The National Flag Rising Political Symbolism Analysis

Political symbol is the basic way for human to understand the political world.The ubiquity of symbols and actions and their widespread influence on political life are important facts of human life,but we are often unaware of them because we are in them and because they are part of our daily lives.Therefore,the systematic study of political symbols is to remind people to pay attention to those existing universal phenomena,and provide people with a new perspective to observe political life and a new way to interpret modern politics.Political symbol is not only a form of resources to present political activities,but also can enter the internal of social life,influence and reshape the culture and value of social members.The complex combination and application between the various forms of political symbols and their various political functions make political symbols become the common organizational strategies of human beings that span different periods and different societies and realize their basic social functions.As a strategic choice,these functions and meanings of political symbols are scattered in all aspects of political life,and political ceremony provides a good window for the concentrated and in-depth observation of political symbols.During more than 70 years of social changes and political development in the People’s Republic of China,the ceremony of raising the national flag on Tiananmen Square in Beijing has always existed.Beijing Tian ’anmen Square flag raising ceremony is also the domestic configuration,specifications,the highest attention of the flag raising ceremony,to see the Tian ’anmen Square flag raising is every Chinese heart feelings.In the context of The Times when the national rites and symbols are highly valued,it is necessary to conduct an in-depth study on the political symbolic significance of the flag-raising ceremony in Tian ’anmen Square from the perspective of academic theory,and explore the theoretical logic and internal mechanism behind it.The flag-raising ceremony of Tian ’anmen Square in Beijing,as a complex with extensive symbolic significance,both its entity elements and the ceremony itself have important symbolic and political metaphor functions.It is the symbolic nature of the ceremony itself that gives it more important and rich meaning.Reifying power,spreading political value and constructing national identity are three major political symbolic meanings.The reason why the state pays so much attention to and organizes the flag-raising ceremony in Tian ’anmen Square in Beijing is not to achieve some material goals,but to complete the declaration of power,the diffusion of value and the condensation of identity through this highly structured and standardized process.