The steps to make a five-star red flag by hand are as follows:

1. Prepare materials: a rectangular piece of red paper, a pair of scissors, a pencil, some colored pens or paints. Fold the red paper in half and draw five five-pointed stars on the paper with a pencil. Use scissors to cut out the five five-pointed stars. Be careful not to cut the five-pointed stars. Place the five five-pointed stars aside and use scissors to cut out the rectangular paper underneath the five-pointed stars.

2. Fold the cut rectangular paper strip in half and draw a horizontal line on the paper with a pencil. Use scissors to cut the horizontal lines, being careful not to cut the five-pointed star and rectangular paper strips. Put the five-pointed star and the rectangular paper strips together and color the five-pointed stars and the rectangular paper strips with colored pens.

3. Put the assembled five-pointed red flag aside and use scissors to cut out the rectangular paper under the red flag. Fold the cut rectangular paper in half and draw two horizontal lines on the paper with a pencil. Use scissors to cut out the two horizontal lines, being careful not to cut the rectangular strip of paper.

4. Overlap the two horizontal lines together and use glue to stick the two horizontal lines together. Be careful not to stick the five-pointed star and the rectangular paper strip. Put the glued red flag aside and use scissors to cut out some thin strips on the top and bottom of the red flag to make the red flag more three-dimensional.

The meaning of the five-star red flag

1. The five-star red flag is the symbol and symbol of the Republic of China. The designer of the flag of the Republic of China was Zeng Liansong. The flag is red and rectangular. Its length and height are in the ratio of three to two. There are five yellow five-pointed stars on the upper left side of the flag. One star is larger, and its circumscribed circle has a diameter of three-tenths of the height of the flag, and is located on the left; four stars are smaller, and its circumscribed circle has a diameter of one-tenth of the flag's height, and is placed on the right of the big star.

2. The national flag of the People’s Republic of China began to solicit national flag patterns from July 14 to August 15, 1949. On August 20, 1949, the National Flag and Emblem Selection Committee received 2,992 national flag designs. On September 27, 1949, deputies to the first plenary session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference passed a resolution to adopt the five-star red flag as the national flag.

3. On October 1, 1949, the first flag of the People’s Republic of China was raised in Tiananmen Square by Mao Zedong. The red color of the flag symbolizes revolution, and the five five-pointed stars on the flag and their relationship symbolize the great unity of the revolutionary people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.

4. The five-pointed star is yellow to show its light on the red ground. Each of the four small five-pointed stars has a tip facing the center of the big star, indicating unity around a center.