Armies of Honor: 56 Years of Dress Changes Dominance

When visiting the red carpet, every visiting foreign leader will see at first glance the honor guard of the armed forces of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). This team, while bringing them extraordinary temperament, witnessed a brand-new outlook on the progress and development of the people's army along with the changes in the guards' dresses. The earliest dress from the common military uniform October 1, 1949, the founding of New China, many countries announced the establishment of diplomatic relations with our country. On October 16, our country ushered in the first foreign guest, the Soviet ambassador to China, Roschen. Rosing should formally submit the credentials to Chairman Mao Zedong, the Central Committee decided to hold a welcome ceremony with the honor guard and the military band. At that time, the task of forming a honor guard for the honor guard was entrusted to the police guard battalion. Due to the tight schedule, the improvised guard of honor was too late for the dress. In welcoming Ambassador Rosing, in order to show that the honor guard is mighty and majestic, it was decided that the seized Japanese army should wear uniforms, breeches, boots, helmet and hand-held bayonets 38-style rifle. Although the dress was seized, but the team members neat action, full of energy, the task is completed smoothly. In March 1952, at the direction of Chairman Mao, Premier Chou decided to elect a group of key cadres in the Central Guard to quickly form the Chinese honor guard. On June 29, 1953, the chief of the public security forces signed an order appropriating police guard battalions of the public security guards and the third battalion of honor guard at the second regiment, and selected honor guard members among the various field troops to form the honor guard of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. At the beginning of the honor guard, it was the difficult period when the new China was born. Although the soldiers are all from the backbone of the army, but the guard of honor clothing is no different with other troops, clothes fabric for the cotton cloth, the color is grass green, the left chest wearing a "Chinese People's Liberation Army," the badge, the ceremonial Gun for the Soviet 762 rifle. For the first time wearing a formal dress appearance examination field On September 30, 1956, on the eve of the National Day, Beijing put on the festival dress, the capital airport to the Zhongnanhai more than 20 kilometers on the road, hundreds of thousands of people nodding welcome Indonesian President Sukarno . At the end of the ranks, the guard of honor of the three armed forces dressed in new style dresses is extremely mighty in the sunshine. Following the welcoming ceremony, President Sukarno, accompanied by Chairman Mao, reviewed the newly installed guard of honor of the armed forces of the three armed forces. This is the first time in the history of honor guard dress uniforms. In 1955, our army carried out the rank system for the first time and the military uniforms also carried out a major reform in the form of dress and uniforms. 55 military uniforms, breaking the history of the uniforms of our army uniforms. The honor guard is wearing a dress from this uniform adjustment, the style of the officer dress at the time. In this dress uniforms, the guard of honor from the original meet the foreign heads of state only the army guard of honor to the army of sea and air service guard of honor, the honor guard dress from the army uniforms to land, sea and air three kinds of uniforms. On June 1, 1965, on the day of no dress, with the cancellation of the military rank system, the honor guard's dress was abolished. Instead, the uniform of the armed forces serving the uniforms was used to dig four bags from top to bottom. The warriors were two chest bags and the military uniform was worn Red collar badge, red cap badge. After going through the first 10-year dress period, the army guard of honor has ushered in an era of no formal wear for nearly 20 years. In the days when there is no dress, the guard of honor of the armed forces of the armed forces can hardly even guarantee regular service. Even in the most difficult times, there is no special support for the honor guard. The clothes are adjusted by the honor guard themselves. The two sets of apparel uniformed each year by the entire army can not be guaranteed to these super-trained honor members. As a result, the guard of honor on the playground had to wear a patch of clothes training, to review the market, was willing to put on a little new clothes. On February 21, 1972, the honor guard underwent a major event in the history of international diplomacy, welcoming the first U.S. President Nixon to embark on the new Chinese territory. During the preparations for the reception by Nixon China, the relevant responsible person asked Comrade Premier Zhou for whether the dress of more than 300 people in the guard of honor of the armed forces is new. Premier Zhou agreed. In this way, when Nixon stepped off the plane and showed him what he had never seen before, it was the largest contingent of guard of 371 people in our diplomatic history. Since the reform and opening up in 1978, the country has opened its doors and the leaders of the party, state and army have been constantly appearing in the world courtesy space to review the guard of honor in other countries. In comparison, they all felt that "the clothes of our guard of honor can make some improvements." In July 1983, the general departments concerned relayed the instructions from the leading comrades of the Central Military Commission: "The guard of honor clothes are not powerful enough to be more aesthetically pleasing." On August 1, 1983, the guard of honor of the armed forces formally distributed the new concierge clothes. Since then, it has also opened the prelude to the reform of the entire army in the Chinese People's Liberation Army. With the then clothing reform, land and air force honor guard team wearing a big eaves cap; Navy soldiers wearing a sailor cap, cadre wearing a big hat. Caps and hats have flag-type floss and hat-wall ribbons. Armed Forces are all round the emblem, the middle there are "August" five-star, the outer periphery is the ears and gears, sea and air force were lined iron anchor and fin pattern. Lu and Air Force Concierge suits for the establishment of a lapel collar, sleeves outside the flag of the dental floss and two yellow lines. Navy warrior shawl sailor uniform. Navy cadres service and land and air force the same. Army uniform dress pants in the seams are marked service floss and two yellow lines. The honor guard's concierge service army is brownish green; the air force jacket is brownish green and army pants are navy blue; the navy jacket is white and the army pants are navy blue. Army guard members wear badges. New style clothing material is blended polyester terry. After the reform of dignified clothing, simple, generous, in line with our national customs and our military's tradition. After the reform of the dress, despite the addition of clothing, trousers and other decorative lines, dress is also more beautiful, but still can not keep up the pace of development of ceremony. Taking into account the diplomatic needs under the new situation, in 1987, the leaders of the Central Military Commission once again called for the general reform of the dress. Unfortunately, the dress after the reform was tried on shortly and was eliminated. According to the directives of the Central Military Commission, an institute of scientific research after the General Headquarters started another reform of the new ceremonial dress. On October 1, 1992, the army guard of honor replaced the new dress. This is the fourth dress reform of the army guard of honor. The new reform dress not only for the first time out of the current military uniforms style, the color from the original three to six, the distinction between the military species, the end of the land-air force mixed color mode, while improving the grade of the main ingredients, winter Fabric clothes made it. As a new century dress that attracts worldwide attention, China has stepped into the new century and the dress reform of the army guard of honor has also entered a new century. On July 3, 2007, the conference on the work of adjusting and reforming military uniforms in all armed forces and the ceremony for releasing new clothing were held ceremoniously in the capital Beijing. Army guard of honor dressed in a new dress, marched on August 1 flag walking in the 13 new clothing show the most advanced square team. The new ceremonial honor ceremonial uniform, both with the 07 officer uniform to maintain a basic uniform, but also highlights the characteristics of the ceremonial honor uniform, compared with the old-fashioned dress, but also reborn as an improvement. Like ordinary military uniforms, ceremonial dress colors have also been adjusted. From the past brown to green pine branches, the army has not only maintained the traditional green of our army but also added the colors of the Red Army and the Eighth Route Army uniforms. Navy and Air Force uniform color changes smaller, respectively, by the navy, blue-gray deepened deep blue, dark blue-gray, so that the three armies more coordinated tone. Like the new uniforms, ceremonial dress as a whole still inherited the People's Liberation Army "red" elements, including the cap emblem, armbands, national defense service chapter and other places have reflected.

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