Differences in clothing colors and numbers between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

At the beginning of its establishment, the People's Army did not have its own military uniform.

1 August, 9271day, the gunfire of Nanchang Uprising announced the birth of a new people's army led by China Producers' Party. Most of the uprising troops wore the clothes of the National Revolutionary Army. In order to distinguish it from the old army, the officers and men of the uprising troops each wore a red scarf.

In the autumn harvest uprising of the same year, although the peasant self-defense forces and the workers and peasants volunteers dressed in various costumes were not uniform, they all wore a string of the same fiery armbands on their arms.

1in March, 929, after the Red Fourth Army captured Changting City, an important town in western Fujian, it made 4,000 sets of military uniforms, modeled on the uniforms of the Soviet Red Army (Chinese tunic suit, with two pockets under it) and the octagonal hat worn by Lenin ―― sewing two red cloth collars on the military uniforms, and sewing a five-pointed star on the front of the octagonal hat.

Since then, the uniforms of the Red Army in various base areas have been gradually unified, but the colors are mostly gray.

Vertical lapels, single-row five-button buttons and four Ming-style patch pocket are the symbolic costumes of China army in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period. Regardless of country *

After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and its clothing and symbols were basically the same as those of the Kuomintang army. Both the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army wear "clear sky and day" hat badges, but their identities are clearly marked on armbands. The Eighth Route Army wears the rectangular armband of the Eighth Route Army, and the New Fourth Army wears the armband of the New Fourth Army or N4a. The uniforms of the Eighth Route Army are mostly khaki, while those of the New Fourth Army are mostly gray.

19481February, the logistics department of the central military commission held a logistics meeting of the whole army, and the color of the military uniform was determined to be yellow-green, and the material was cotton plain cloth; The logo was changed from the armband to the "China People's Liberation Army" cloth badge with black characters on the chest, white background and red edge; The hat is changed to a short round brim hat (that is, the "liberation hat"), and the "August 1st" red five-star metal hat badge is worn.