plot_ROC_Beiyang_flag: Plot the Five-Colored Flag of the Beiyang Government

In ggChinaFlag: Drawing Chinese National and Historical Flags with 'ggplot2'

Plot the Five-Colored Flag of the Beiyang Government

Description

Draws the Five-Colored Flag used during the Beiyang Government period (circa 1912-1928) of the Republic of China, using horizontal colour bands rendered with ggplot2. The flag has five equal horizontal stripes in red, yellow, blue, white and black, symbolising the Han, Manchu, Mongol, Hui and Tibetan peoples. The drawing is fully programmatic and uses no external image resources.

Usage

plot_ROC_Beiyang_flag(label = TRUE)

Arguments

label

Logical; whether to display the title and explanatory text. TRUE (default) shows the title and annotations; FALSE draws only the flag.

Details

• The flag is built from five equal-height horizontal rectangles.

• From top to bottom the colours are red, yellow, blue, white, black.

• These represent the Han, Manchu, Mongol, Hui and Tibetan peoples.

• ggplot2::coord_quickmap() keeps the proportions undistorted.

• Axes, grid and legend are hidden.

Value

A ggplot object, which can be printed or saved with ggsave().

Author(s)

Historical flag of the Beiyang Government era.

See Also

geom_rect, coord_quickmap

Examples

plot_ROC_Beiyang_flag()
plot_ROC_Beiyang_flag(label = FALSE)

ggChinaFlag documentation built on July 4, 2026, 9:07 a.m.