Photo: Evolution of China's military uniform - From red scarf red armbands to suit collar

The shape and the spirit of an army, the most direct embodiment of the military in addition to the temperament and equipment, there are clothing. Since the establishment of the Chinese People's Liberation Army for more than 80 years, uniforms have also changed a lot. Behind the changes are changes made by the army from weak to strong. It is a continuous improvement of the scientific and technological level, an increasingly powerful economic power of the country and Changes in aesthetic concepts throughout the time. Over the past 80 years, the Chinese army has carried out more than 10 garment reform and reform so as to meet the requirements of army building in different historical periods. Since the founding of New China, especially since the 30th anniversary of the reform and opening up, with the development of economy and the continuous improvement of national power, the military uniforms of the Chinese People's Liberation Army have carried out more than 10 times adjustments in response to the revolutionization, modernization and standardization of the armed forces. Reform, the system is more and more complete supporting, modeling more and more beautiful and solemn, more and more scientific use of model settings, material properties getting better and better, the army's colors are more and more coordinated. Clothing clothed the colors of the times, China's military uniform is no exception. Nanchang Uprising initial distinction One of the hallmarks of the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang army is the red scarf red scarf and red armband: goodbye to the people of the old era was established, and does not have its own military uniform. On August 1, 1927, the gunfire of the Nanchang Uprising declared the birth of a new people's army led by the Chinese Communist Party. Most of the rebel forces wore the clothes of the National Revolutionary Army. To distinguish them from the old one, officers and men of the insurgent units each put on a red scarf. In the Autumn Harvest Uprising of the same year, most of the uprising troops consisted of the Peasant Self-Defense Forces, the Workers 'and Peasants' Volunteers, dressed in various kinds of garments, but all wore red armbands. Red scarves, red armbands, on behalf of the break with the old times. ☆

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