After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, this country still uses the national flag of the Qing Dynasty and has not yet established diplomatic relations with China
In the feudal society of ancient China, there was no concept of the national flag. In many film and television works, flags like "Qin Han" are often seen, but they are not national flags. It was not until the "Yaluo Incident" at the end of the Qing Dynasty that the rulers of the Qing Dynasty began to design their own national flags. After the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, China still uses the Qing flag and has not yet established diplomatic relations with China.
In 1853, the British and American powers proposed to the Qing government to amend the treaty, which was rejected by the Qing court. By October 1856, a Chinese merchant ship , the Yaluo , sailed from Xiamen to Guangzhou , anchoring on the Banks of the Huangpu River. All the sailors on board were Chinese, but the British flag was flying on board. At that time, the British thought of Guangzhou under the pretext of inadvertently tearing off the British flag during the search for a ship, which eventually triggered a diplomatic storm. The attack became the trigger for the Second Opium War.
After the Yaluo Incident, the Qing government realized the importance of the national flag and saw that Western countries solemnly hung the national flag, while China at that time did not have its own national flag to hang. At that time, Li Hongzhang was deeply impressed by the "Tianzun", so he organized the design of the Qing Dynasty national flag. So the original flag of our country was a three-clawed yellow dragon on it. At first, the flag designed by the Qing government was not a national flag, but was used to distinguish foreign ships, and civilian ships could not be hoisted. Some foreign-related officials began to hold high the triangular Yellow Dragon Flag. It was not until 1888 that China gave birth to its first national flag, the rectangular "Yellow Dragon Play Red Pearl" flag.
With its own flag, the Qing government began to announce the Chinese flag to various countries. And after the Opium Wars, it also taught the Western powers that they didn't have to twist their minds on the flag. In addition, the Qing dynasty princely states also needed to follow the steps of the Qing Dynasty and begin to design their own flags. In particular, Bhutan is a small country with an area of about 384,400 square kilometers. Because in the 8th century, Bhutan was a Tibetan tribe and later became independent. They are deeply influenced by Tibetan culture and have long been affiliated with China.
Bhutan was deeply influenced by Chinese culture and made imitation changes according to the appearance of the Chinese flag.
The national flag of the Qing Dynasty was the four-pointed dragon flag (five-clawed dragon), commonly known as the "Yellow Dragon Banner", and Bhutan gave the Yellow Dragon one less claw and became three claws. This can also be traced back to the 17th century. At that time, there were two main forces fighting in Tibet (the Paju and the Gelug). Among them, the Paju leader Awan Nangar led his followers to Bhutan, claiming to be escorted by a "four-legged dragon" who belonged to him all over Bhutan, which is the source of the four-clawed dragon flag.
Bhutan has always been a vassal state of the Central Plains Dynasty (China). During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Bhutan also accepted the title of Chinese court, but at the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the court was weakened, Bhutan still obeyed the orders of the Qing Dynasty. Shortly after the Qing government designed the national flag, Bhutan began to follow the footsteps of the Qing Dynasty and designed the three-clawed dragon flag.