Welsh Dragon of Wales by Royal Warrant. (A similar label of three points is used in his arms, crest and supporters for the same reason.) This Royal badge was supplanted by a new official Royal badge in 2008, which eliminated the red dragon altogether. Welsh Dragon The Welsh Dragon (, meaning "the red dragon", ) appears on the national flag of Wales. The oldest recorded use of the dragon to symbolise Wales is in the "Historia Brittonum", written around AD 829, but it is popularly supposed to have been the battle standard of King Arthur and other ancient Celtic leaders. Its association
Flag of the Qing dynasty the Republic of China and on the flag of the Empire of China, although in 1912 the former was challenged by Sun Yat-sen, who thought it inappropriate to use the traditional imperial color to represent Manchu ethnicity. Also, mustard yellow was used in the flag of Manchukuo in deference to the Qing dynasty, on whose flag it was based. The blue dragon was featured in the Twelve Symbols national emblem, which was the state emblem of China from 1913 to 1928. When the Qing dynasty purchased battleships from the United Kingdom in 1862, Horatio Nelson Lay designed several naval flags