The Tricolour Burmese: သုံးရောင်ခြယ် (lit. 'three colour painted') originally refers to the flag of Dobama Asiayone (which had two variants).[1] The Tricolour became the flag of anti-British movement untill 1945. The first (1935) version of the Tricolour was used as the national flag of the State of Burma.[2] The current flag of Myanmar (since 2010) uses the tricolour background to indicate the magnificence of the Tricolour flag.[3]
Its background is the tricolour of yellow, green and red. For the central symbol, there is two variants; the peacock (in 1935 version), and the hammer and sickle (in 1938 version).[4] There are two songs with the same name သုံးရောင်ခြယ်သီချင်း (meaning: Tricolour Song), composed by two different composers, composed about the meaning behind the Tricolour symbolisation and the hope of Burmese people.[5]
References
- ^ တို့ဗမာအစည်းအရုံးသမိုင်း [Dobama Asiayone history] (in Burmese). စာပေဗိမာန်. 1976.
- ^ "An Old Flag of Myanmar". Lost Footsteps. 2017.
- ^ နိုင်ငံတော်အလံဥပဒေ [The Union Flag Law] (law, 5(a)) (in Burmese and English). State Peace and Development Council. 2010.
- ^ Khin Yi (1988). The Dobama Movement in Burma (1930-1938). Cornell University Press.
- ^ သုံးရောင်ခြယ် [Tricolour] (in Burmese). Dobama Asiayone. 2014.