Gift Backpacks
This page displays gift backpacks for K-12 school kids designed for the Celebrating the 370th Anniversary of the Founding of Qing Dynasty in China Manchu Daiqing Cultural Festival. The Qing Dynasty was the first Chinese state where all ethnic groups live in relative equality and peace, and peoples of all social classes live in relative harmony through extensive networks of welfare system administered by the Imperial Government and local literati-gentry (basically, wealthy landowners and merchants). The Qing Dynasty was multi-racial and multi-cultural, allowing peoples from all racial and ethnic backgrounds (including Europeans) to serve in the government (Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet, GCMG (20 February 1835 – 20 September 1911), was a British consular official in China, who served as the second Inspector-General of The Great Qing Empire’s Imperial Maritime Custom Service (IMCS) from 1863 to 1911); and it has increased China's territory four times through aristocratic intermarriage, diplomatic efforts, and occasionally, military campaigns. Under the Qing Dynasty, the Crown considered itself as the re-incarnation of Manjusri and promoted many enlightened and progressive social reforms such as emancipation of the pariahs, redistribution of land ownership, decrease of taxation, and limitation of death penalty (throughout over 268 years of Qing Dynasty reign, for a population of 1000 to 4000 million, over a vast territory of over 12 million square kilometers, the number of convicts put to death varied from less than 100 to less than 1000 per year).
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As shown on the top portion of Figure B-1A, the logo for the Celebrating the 370th Anniversary of the Founding of Qing Dynasty in China Manchu Daiqing Cultural Festival is loaded with cultural meanings.
The number 370 is prominent in the logo, with the number 3 combined with the name Manchu in Jurchen script and the abstract image of the head of a gyrfalcon (the symbolic totem of the Manchu Nation), the golden flame symbolic of the Mongolian people, and the red, blue and white Yin and Yang disk symbolic of the Han Chinese people. |
Figure B-1B. The Mandarin motto in this picture reads "Manchu Heart, Human Solidarity and Love for All Creatures;" the picture correspondingly features images of animals (tiger, dog, the best friend of the Manchu people, gyrfalcon, and cat), the Flag of the Manchu Nation, a red balloon with the images of the Manchu Emperor and Empress, the Heart of Manchu Loving-kindness, the Earth and the sky. All of these images convey the ideas of universal brotherhood and sisterhood, and a strong concern for ecological sustainability. The image in this picture has been applied to a related poster design.
Some graphical elements in the gift backpack on the left of the Figure B-1A have been created in other graphic design projects. They include the red balloon, and the Heart of Manchu Loving-kindness. The image in this picture has been applied to a related poster design.
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The picture correspondingly features images of early Qing Dynasty Emperors, the Flag of the Manchu Nation, the Dragon Flag of the Qing Empire (now a icon of traditional Chinese culture for many civil groups in Chinese communities throughout the world, the image of Qianlong Emperor in military uniform and riding a horse on the way to battlefield, the map of the Great Qing Empire of China, the Flowers of the Manchu Eight Banners, and celebratory balloons. The image in this picture has been applied to a related poster design.
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The logos for the New Eight Banners (top) features the Heart of Double Love, shown in Figure B-2, the Manchu Rainbow with red, yellow, blue, white and green colors representing the Manchu, Mongolian and Han-Chinese Eight Banners and the Han-Chinese Green Standard Army, the Holly Forever-White or Changbai Mountains (长白山) with the Heavenly Lake (天池) on top, and the five water waves of the Black Dragon River (黑龙江), both in Manchuria, China. . The Manchu Eight Banners service cap and the crown of Great Qing Emperor adorn the tops of the mountains. The four golden stars on the rainbow represent the four classes of people in traditional Chinese society, i.e., the literati-gentry (intellectuals), peasants, artisan-workers, and business people. The four waves with eight crests symbolize the four important periods of Manchu history, i.e., the rise of the Great Jin Dynasty (the “Great Golden Empire,” or 大金帝国; 1115–1234), the unification of China under Manchu-led Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), the War against Japanese Invasions (1894 and 1931-1945), and Global Emigration and Settlement (1976-present). During World War Two, long before the Nationalist and Communist Parties agreed to stop their ten-year long civil war and built a coalition to resist Japan after the Xi’an Incident (December 12, 1936) when Chiang Kaicheck was arrested by his generals and forced to start fighting Japan, the Manchu and their allies among diverse ethnic groups living in Manchuria, including Han-Chinese, many of them Qing Empire loyalists, started to resist Japan in 1931 with various factions of the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Armies, without affiliation with either Nationalist or Communists. Due to Japanese military superiority, internal fragmentation and lack of international support, the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Armies failed and the survivors were later absorbed into the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army. The current National Anthem of the People’s Republic of China, the March of the Volunteers (义勇军进行曲), was a Chinese patriotic song praising the heroic struggle of the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Armies. After the anti-Manchu Rebellion of 1911, a lot of Manchu emigrated to the West; many of them made contributions to their new homelands; General John Fugh (傅履仁) is the first Manchu American to attain general officer status in the U.S. Army. In the recent two decades, a lot of Manchu people emigrated to the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Sweden and other Western Industrialized Democracies; many of them successful entrepreneurs and professionals; Dr. Ji Song Wu (吴季松) served as an Academician in the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering and Sciences.
Figure B-3B. The Mandarin motto in this picture reads "All Ethnic Peoples of China Have Their Distinct Origins, and the Eight Banners Unified the Whole Nation;" the poster correspondingly features images of the Emperor Qianlong in military uniform and riding a horse on the way to battlefield, the map of the Great Qing Empire of China, the Flowers of the Manchu Eight Banners, and the smiling Happy Lion holding the Flag of the New Eight Banners. The image in this picture has been applied to a related poster design.
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