Revealed! How is the national flag raised at Tiananmen Square accurate to the second?

New Year's Day

Watch the flag-raising ceremony at Tiananmen Square

It is a blessing to the motherland

It is also a sense of ritual for the Chinese people.

Accompanied by the national anthem played by the military band

The flag bearer of the national flag guard vigorously

Waving the national flag

The five-star red flag rises slowly

Let us welcome this sacred and solemn moment together

Stand like a pine tree, walk like the wind

A neat dress and white gloves

The golden ribbon hanging diagonally from the shoulder

Holding a gun with a sharp gaze

Describe the flag guard in these words

It couldn't be more appropriate

So how does such a team

When the national flag is raised at Tiananmen Square

To the minute

[Wake up earlier than the sun]

A perfect flag raising every time

All of this is inseparable from the soldiers' daily hard training.

6 o'clock in the morning

The flag guards have woken up

Arrive at the training ground on time

With the thin morning light

They started the warm-up training before the flag-raising ceremony.

The training time is not fixed.

“Get up an hour and a half before the sun rises”

Warm-up run, stand at attention, and adjust your uniform

After a short training

The hour hand points to the departure time

In the endless night

They walked along the bluestone road

Go through Duanmen Gate and head to the flag raising platform

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【The little secret hidden in the hat】

365 days a year

Winter and Summer

Sunrise time is updated every day

Their wake-up times also change accordingly

To ensure that the flag rises with the sun

There is a flag guard who will specifically block the time

The Observatory prepares the flag-raising schedule one year in advance

Hidden in his hat

“The earliest time we raise the flag in a year is in June.

The earliest flag-raising time is 4:45.”

Although the task of special time reporting is simple

But the two flag guards were the most nervous.

They kept looking at their watches and telling time.

Make sure there are no mistakes

Such time reporting

This is very common during team training.

The flag guards who are stuck in time will report every 5 minutes.

During the team training, it takes about 2 minutes to report once.

The reason for such frequent time announcements is

Remind trainers not to forget the time

Delaying the departure time for the flag-raising ceremony

【Let’s set off facing the rising sun! 】

There are still ten minutes until the flag-raising ceremony.

Flag Guard training ends

They walked in neat steps

Go to the flag raising platform

Out of Tiananmen Gate

From Jinshui Bridge to the flagpole

The national flag guard will march 96 steps

Each step is 75 cm

Exactly

These 96 steps represent

9.6 million square kilometers

Procession

Stride length can be measured and speed can be controlled

If we consider it as quantitative

Then the flag-raiser is the biggest variable

Flag-raiser Zhang Zixuan said:

"If the national flag is not hoisted on the flagpole immediately,

The second time I hung up

It will take 4 to 5 seconds

Prolong the process

Therefore, the flag-raiser needs to do it in one go."

Within 4 minutes

They have to complete every move precisely.

Minute by minute, step by step

Make sure the flag rises at the same time as the sun

They raised more than just flags

It is also the patriotism and cohesion of hundreds of millions of people.

pay tribute!

The flag guard soldiers who guard the country regardless of weather conditions

Source: WeChat public account "Communist Youth League Central Committee" (ID: gqtzy2014), compiled from WeChat public account "CCTV Military" (ID: CCTV-7_Junshi), CCTV News Client

Editor: Liang Taihua

Proofreading丨Zhang Ying

Proofread by Wang Xiaomei

On-duty editor: Jin Furong