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It's time to raise the national flag in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

The rising and falling time of the national flag in Tiananmen Square is determined according to the sunrise and sunset time in Beijing, and the specific time is specially calculated by astronomer Lin Heng of Beijing Observatory. In the morning, when the upper edge of the sun is flush with the horizon of Tiananmen Square. For flag-raising time. The time for raising and lowering the national flag varies from date to date. Every year from 65438+1 October 1 1 to June 6, the flag-raising is gradually advanced from 7: 36 am to 4: 36 am, with an average of about1minute per day; 12 From June 22nd to February 30th, the flag-raising time was gradually delayed from 4: 46 to 7: 36, with an average delay of 52 seconds per day. 65438+February 3 1 to 65438+1October 10 and June 7-June 2 1, the daily flag-raising time is 7: 36 and 4: 46 respectively. The time of lowering the national flag is also divided into two periods: gradual delay and gradual advance. On rainy and snowy days, the time for raising and lowering the flag is the same as the day before.

The flag-raising in Tiananmen Square is changed to once a month, that is, the military orchestra only undertakes live performance services once a month.

Since yesterday, the flag-raising ceremony in Tiananmen Square has been adjusted. The flag-raising ceremony will be changed from three times a month to once a month, that is, the military orchestra will only undertake live performances once a month.

According to Liu Jianguang, captain of Tiananmen National Flag Guard of Beijing Armed Police Corps, they were informed on May 30th that they would be responsible for raising the national flag on June 1 day, June 1 day and June 2 1 day, and then they would raise the national flag on June1day. At that time, 36 members of the National Flag Guard and 62 members of the Armed Police Military Orchestra will perform the national anthem live three times as before.

The flag-raising service of 1 1 and 2 1 will be changed to normal flag-raising. At that time, there will be no flag-raising ceremony, and the Armed Police Military Orchestra will no longer undertake live performance services on 1 1 and 2 1.

According to Shen, the stationmaster of the news station of Beijing Armed Police Corps, the reform of the flag-raising ceremony in Tiananmen Square is mainly for the relevant departments to better maintain the order of the square.

It is reported that the flag-raising ceremony has undergone two major reforms. On February 28th, 1982 1982, the 5th Squad of the 11th Squadron of the 6th Team of the Beijing Armed Police Corps was stationed in Tiananmen Square to undertake the glorious task of raising and defending the national flag. Since then, China has had the first standardized flag-raising ceremony.

1 991may1day, the "Tiananmen flag class" was expanded to "Tiananmen national flag guard", completing the transition from the flag-raising ceremony of three people to the flag-raising ceremony of 36 people.