前段时间,我和一位朋友在上海虹口区的一座旧房申,拜访了新中国国旗设计者曾联松先生。七十六岁的曾老显得很精神。我们用瑞安方言交谈,更增情趣。对设计国旗,他记忆犹新。一九四九年五月上海解放时,他正好在地下党领导的秘密经济新闻据点(上海现代经济通讯社)工作,任务是为党中央提供国统区的经济情报。七月份,一个偶然的机会他从报纸上看到公开征求新中国国旗、国徽图案和国歌词谱的启事,非常高兴。根据征稿启事中提出四个方面的要求,即中国特征、政权特征,形式为长方形和色彩以红色为主。他日夜思索,构思国旗。他首先把握政权特征,把中国共产党是全国各族人民的大救星,人民解放军是革命胜利的保证,广大人民团结在党的周围,这几个意思在国旗上表达出来。他原来设计的式样是;国旗的红色象征革命,以 Some time ago, I and a friend in an old house in Shanghai’s Hongkou District called on Mr. Zeng Liansong, the designer of the new China. The seventy-six year old was very spirit-oriented. We talked in Ryan dialect, more fun. He remembered the design of the national flag. When Shanghai was liberated in May 1949, he was working in the Secret Economic News Base (Shanghai Modern Economic News Agency) under the leadership of the underground party with the task of providing the Party Central Committee with the economic intelligence of the KMT. In July, he was very fortunate to see the newspaper openly soliciting public announcements on the new China national flag, emblem designs and the lyrics of national anthem. According to the solicitation, four requirements were put forward, namely, the characteristics of China, the features of the regime, the form of a rectangle and the color of red. He pondered day and night, conceived the national flag. He first grasped the characteristics of the political power, put the Chinese Communist Party as the lifesaver of the people of all nationalities in the country, and the People’s Liberation Army guaranteed the victory of the revolution. The majority of the people are united around the party. These meanings are expressed on the national flag. He originally designed the style is; the red flag of the national revolution, with