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people of 13 states took part in the war and made a flag called “The Great Ally’s Flag” to show their will of sharing a bitter hatred of the enemy and fighting against the aggressors together. The base of this flag is 13 red and white stripes on a rectangular piece of color, which represents 13 colonial states. The upper left corner of this flag is a small Union Jack, which reflects the colony’s acknowledgement of the status of its suzerain England. But this flag had been opposed by people soon because they thought that America already stood independently, there would not be pictures about British flag any more. So people began to design the picture of the American flag which truly represented America. It was an interesting plan that people wanted to use a star to represent a state, but there were some differences on the ways of arrangement about these 13 stars. The first president of America Washington proposed a plan later on. People chose the plan of arranging 13 stars into a circle. The flag was used in 1777 formally and it was the first Stars and Stripes of America. This flag was in use until 1794. In 1794, Vermont and Kentucky joined America, the Congress decided to modify the national flag. So 13 stars became 15 stars, 13 stripes also became 15 stripes. The 15 stars were arranged on the upper left corner of the flag according to the form of 3×5. After that, when a new state was added to America, the star on the national flag was added one, and the stripe on the national flag was also added one. When the arrangement had been changed, the design of the national flag changed too. In 1818, the Congress passed a law about the modification of the national flag. It regulated that the numbers of stripe of the national flag revert to the original 13 stripes to memorize the original 13 colonies that had won the victory in the War of Independence from then on. The white stars in the upper left corner of the flag are equal to the number of states. So a star was added while a new state was added. In 1912, when New Mexico and Arizona joined America, there were 48 states in America already and there were 48 stars in the national flag too. The 48 stars were arranged into a rectangle according to the form of 6×8. This design was nice-looking. This flag of 48 stars was used from 1912 to 1959. It was also the American national flag which the Chinese people had often seen commonly before their liberation and called “The Flower Flag”. In 1959, Alaska joined America and America had 49 states. The 49 stars of the national flag were rearranged a little according to the design of 7×7. But when Hawaii joined America and it became the 50th state of America. The arrangement of these 50 stars of the national flag that became more complicated. At last, people adopted the design of alternate permutation of 6×5＋5×4 through the discussion over and over again. This is the 20th time for modifying the national flag since the independence of America. It is also the American flag of Stars and Stripes we have seen now. There is something important to say. During The Civil War in 1864, there had been 11 states who wanted to be divorced from the Federation. But President Lincoln still declared to hang the national flag of 35 stars in order to show the unity of the country and never allow separation. (Zhu Yongtao, 265) II. The Development and Problems of Patriotism in America It is obvious that patriotism is very important for a nation’s existence and deve