Flag of the Qing dynasty he petitioned the imperial court for permission and subsequently altered the triangular naval flag into a rectangular one. Seeing Western countries flying national flags on official occasions, Li Hongzhang also asked Empress Dowager Cixi to select a national flag for the Qing dynasty. Among the proposals for use of the Ba gua flag, the Yellow dragon flag and the Qilin flag, Cixi selected the Yellow dragon design. In 1888, the imperial court promulgated the naval flag as the Qing national flag. The notion of yellow as representative of Manchu ethnicity was used in the flags of the Five-coloured flag of
Flag of Karnataka private and, sometimes, in public, celebrations of the Dasara festival, including the Special Assembly ("haas durbar") during the carnival. While the bi-coloured Kannada Paksha flag remained the state's de-facto flag, the legal complications were quite complex. The bi-coloured flag is the official flag of a state political party called "Kannada Paksha". It would be an advertisement of the party if the state recognised this flag as its own official one. However, the flag itself was designed and became prevalent during pro-Kannada movements in the late 1960s. Therefore, the bi-coloured flag became more sentimentally attached to the people and Kannada speakers