The symbol of the Chinese People's Liberation Army military uniform

Get rid of the clothes of the old days

When the People's Army was founded, it did not have its own military uniform. 1 August, 9271day, the gunfire of Nanchang Uprising announced the birth of a new people's army led by China. Most of the uprising troops wore the clothes of the National Revolutionary Army. In order to distinguish it from the old army, the officers and men of the uprising troops each wore a red scarf. In the autumn harvest uprising of the same year, the Chinese revolutionary army of workers and peasants, which was composed of the former Wuhan National Government Guard Corps, Anyuan Road miners and Pingjiang and Liuyang peasant volunteers, wore all kinds of clothes, but all wore red armbands. The red scarf and red armband represent a break with the old times and symbolize the Red Army.

Create a symbol of the Red Army in the new history

The early clothes of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants were mainly made by themselves or seized from the enemy, and there was no uniform style. The sources of materials for the Red Army to make uniforms are: First, they are bought from the city; The second is to modify the clothes and fabrics confiscated by local tyrants.

The designer of the Red Army uniform and the small octagonal hat is Zhao Pinsan, a native of Xihe Village, Yuci City, Shanxi Province. He is one of the earliest party member in Yuci. After the third counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression", Zhao Pinsan was transferred to the Central Red Army School as the club director. At that time, Liu Bocheng, chief of staff of Zhongge Military Commission, commander of Ruijin Garrison, principal and political commissar of the Red Army School, felt that the students in the Red Army School were dressed in disorder, so he gave him the task of designing school uniforms. At the beginning, Zhao Pinsan was modeled after the uniform style of the Soviet Red Army. His coat is very tight and doesn't suit the climate in the south. Later, it was changed into a cardigan and decorated with a red collar. The military hat is a "small octagonal" Lenin hat suitable for China people's face, and the center of the hat is decorated with a red five-pointed star. Zhao Pinsan's military uniform was recognized by Liu Bocheng and popularized.

Identity of armbands of anti-Japanese volunteers

After the full-scale outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and the costumes and signs were basically the same as those of the Kuomintang army. Both the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army wear "clear sky and day" hat badges, but their identities are clearly marked on the armbands. The Eighth Route Army wears the rectangular armband of the Eighth Route Army, and the New Fourth Army wears the armband of the New Fourth Army or N4A. The uniforms of the Eighth Route Army are mostly yellow-green, while those of the New Fourth Army are mostly gray. The clothes styles of cadres and soldiers are only slightly different from those of pockets. The military uniforms of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army are basically the same as those of the Kuomintang Army. Both the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army wear "blue sky and daytime" hats. The uniforms of the Eighth Route Army are mostly yellow-green, while those of the New Fourth Army are generally gray (the uniforms of the two armies are often mistyped as gray in modern film and television works), and their identities are clearly marked on the armbands. Due to the substantial expansion of the Eighth Route Army, some officers and men have only two buttons on their hats instead of blue sky and daytime hats. This is not for political reasons.

The first uniform service style after the strategic counterattack

In the later period of the liberation war, the munitions factory had begun to take shape, which provided material conditions for the unified clothing style, production and supply of the whole army. 1948 65438+In February, the Logistics Department of the Military Commission held a logistics meeting of the whole army, and determined that the military uniform was yellow-green cotton plain Chinese tunic suit. The logo was changed from armband to wearing the cloth badge of "China People's Liberation Army" on the chest, and the hat was changed to a round short-brimmed hat (ie "liberation hat"), wearing the "August 1st" red five-star metal hat badge. This is the first time in the history of our army to unify clothing styles and colors. 1949 10 all the troops participating in the military parade in founding ceremony wore this uniform.