The phrase "National Day", which originally referred to the matter of national festival, can be traced back to the West Jin at the earliest stage.Western Jin Dynasty writer Lu Ji in "five other princes" on an article once recorded over the National Day.China's feudal times, national celebration event, can not be greater than the emperor's accession to the throne, birthday (Qing Dynasty called the emperor's birthday for the long Festival) and so on.Therefore, in ancient China, the emperor ascended the throne and his birthday was called "National Day".Today, the anniversary of the founding of the country is called National day.
In September 1949, the first session of the CPPCC National Committee decided to October 1st as National Day.The announcement of the founding of the People's Republic of China in October 1, 1949 was one of the greatest changes in Chinese history.At 3 p.m. on October 1, 1949, 300 thousand people in Beijing held a grand ceremony at Tiananmen square to celebrate the founding of the Central People's Government of People's Republic of China.President Mao Zedong solemnly declared the establishment of the Central People's Government and People's Republic of China and raised the first Five Starred Red Flag personally.Chairman Mao read out the announcement of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China: "the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China represents the only legitimate government of the people of People's Republic of China.Any foreign government willing to abide by the principles of equality, mutual benefit and mutual respect for territorial sovereignty and so on, the government is willing to establish diplomatic relations with it."Then a parade and mass demonstrations were held.The commander in chief Zhu De reviewed the land sea air force and announced the order of the headquarters of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, and ordered the Chinese people's Liberation Army to quickly wipe out all the remnants of the Kuomintang and liberate all the liberated territories.
