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Three Red Banners - Wikipedia

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Three Red Banners (Chinese: 三面红旗) was an ideological slogan in the late 1950s which called on the Chinese people to build a socialist state. The "Three Red Banners" also called the "Three Red Flags," consisted of the General Line for socialist construction, the Great Leap Forward and the people's communes.

After the first Five-Year Plan, the People's Republic of China continued its socialist construction by introducing "Three Red Banners Movement". The General Line directed the Chinese people to "go all out, aim high, and build socialism with greater, faster, better, and more economical results."

Their symbolism will be their downfall.

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Their symbolism will be their downfall.
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Yes, I meant to put that in my post-past bedtime and brain is fuzzy.

[Covenantor]

Look to the meaning of I Ching hexgram number 1
... and its two trigrams...each three horizontal lines, one above the other

Hexagram 1 is named 乾 (qián), “Force”. Other variations include “the creative”, “strong action”, “the key”, and “god”. Its inner (lower) trigram is ☰ (乾 qián) force = (天) heaven, and its outer (upper) trigram is the same.

There are numeric values assigned to it