This is how the first five-star red flag hung in Guangzhou was sewn.

194910 On the evening of June 14, the China People's Liberation Army marched into Guangzhou, ending the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang, and Guangzhou declared its liberation. On the morning of June 15, when the red sun rises from the east, a bright five-star red flag hangs from the window on the third floor of East Asia Hotel on Chang Di Avenue. This is the first five-star red flag hung in Guangzhou (Source: Guangzhou Archives). Narrator: Sister Ma, who sewed the first five-star red flag hung in Guangzhou, and her 93-year-old sister worked overtime all night to make this five-star red flag. Ma Ming, a sewing worker in East Asia Hotel, is my fourth sister. In the year of liberation, Sisi was 33 years old and I was 23 years old. I have just joined Shixian Company for less than a year, and I am engaged in the sales of bedding and knitwear. I usually live in the staff dormitory of Sisi in the East Asia Hotel next to me. Fourth sister didn't let me know too clearly in order to protect me. But I still remember that on the day of June+10/October+April, 65438, Shixian Company ceased to operate. I went to the dormitory on the third floor of Sixie, and she came back very late. I knew her garage was on the second floor, so I went down to look for her. Next to her sewing machine, I saw some stars cut from the yellow cloth, so I picked them up and asked her what was so beautiful. She told me "don't touch, don't touch", but she didn't tell me what it was. Later, I learned that it was the star on the five-star red flag. This flag is hard-won. That night, Sijie and her colleague, Xiao Xiangsan, an underground party member, were excited to hear that the PLA had entered the city from the underground radio station. They confirmed the design of China people's flag from Ta Kung Pao sent by Xiao Xiangsan's lover from Hong Kong, and decided to sew a five-star red flag. Time is so tight, where did you get the red cloth and yellow cloth? Just to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, the East Asia Hotel is arranging windows and new curtains, and has bought 12 pieces of red cloth, and there are still some left. The yellow cloth comes from the yellow jerseys worn by Fourth Sister and colleagues. She worked overtime all night and sewed a five-star red flag. /kloc-in the early morning of 0/5, Xiao Sijie, Liu Guangyuan, Ma Shou and other colleagues. A five-star red flag was raised from the window on the third floor of the East Asia Hotel and hung on the road. I followed. It is the horse's head that raises the flag outside the window. A hotel executive once stopped them from flying the national flag, saying it was reckless. But everyone sincerely welcomes the PLA to enter the city, and no one cares about him. East Asia Hotel (the building on the left) is the earliest modern hotel in Guangzhou. (Image source: Guangzhou Archives) I have witnessed the development of New China in the past 90 years. I was born in 1926, which can be said to have come from the most difficult time. 1938, before the Japanese army arrived in Guangzhou, ten members of my family fled south and walked for a whole month before arriving in Hong Kong through more than a dozen counties and cities in Panyu and Zhongshan. My mother was bound at her feet. If she can't walk, I will carry her. Two nieces, one is 4 years old and the other is only 2 years old. When passing Panyu, the Japanese army just entered the village, and our sisters hid in the haystack, their faces covered with dust. When they ran out of the village, they heard gunshots. After arriving in Hong Kong, eldest brother opened a small herbal tea shop in Happy Valley, but he was ill for three days and died soon. The rest of our lives are also very difficult. Later, Hong Kong also fell. Because there was no rice at home, we were forced to queue up to get rice from the Japanese army and watch several refugees die at the hands of the Japanese army. I was almost caught up by Japanese soldiers myself and ran halfway up the mountain before I escaped. I was only 15 years old. Later, we returned to Guangzhou. When I first came back, several people in my family almost starved to death because their savings were all used up and they had not found a job yet. It was my sister-in-law who went to the vegetable market every day to pick up unwanted leaves and cook them with the cheapest corn to get us through that time. However, not long after I worked in Shixian Company, I already felt the tension of the situation. At that time, prices soared, currencies depreciated and business was depressed. Sometimes a day's work fails to make a few deals. Social order began to be chaotic, and theft and robbery occurred from time to time. After liberation, the new government took over Shixian Company, which was once renamed as the Central Sales Department, and I became an employee of the sales department. Not long after, I found that prices were stable, people's purchasing power increased and their lives improved. Later, our department store moved to the south building, where I worked until I retired. For more than 90 years, I watched the dark old China become the bright new China. It took years to see a new low-rise building when I was a child, but now several high-rises have sprung up in a year or so. Text/Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Shen Hui, Zhang Shuhong, Jessica Fong Ching, Wei Wu, Weikang Zeng/Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Luo Changwei, Jessica Fong Ching, Wei Wu, Weikang Zeng, Shen Hui, Zhang Shuhong Video/Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Wei Wu, Weikang Zeng, Zhang Shuhong,