Talk:Historical Chinese anthems

The ode to the Dragon Flag
There's one more I've read from Qing, "The Ode to the Dragon Flag" (&#38924;&#40845;&#26071; Sòng Lóng Qí), but there is insufficient info. All's said is that music and lyrics are lost, rendering it basically info-less. --Menchi 04:53, Aug 17, 2003 (UTC)

The meaning of zhào
Zhào(兆) usually means one trillion (1012). However, in the song "Praise the Dragon Flag", the lyrics uses a strange construct "四百兆" 4-hundred-zhào to describe the 400,000,000 population at that time. (The more proper construct should have been "四億" or "四萬萬".) So zhào should mean one million (106) here in the lyrics. I am trying to rephrase the footnote for clarity. -- Felix Wan 20:11, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

It's noteworthy that "兆" is always ambiguous. See []. "兆" actually usually meant one million in early 20th century, according to that Chinese wiki article. Ahyangyi (talk) 18:40, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

茉莉花 as unofficial anthem
Is there anyone aware of reliable sources that refer to 茉莉花 being used as a substitute (since there weren't any concept of national anthem then) in mid-late 19th century? Kommodorekerz 15:57, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Tone marks?
I am wondering whether we should keep the tone marks in those Pinyin transliterations. Since anthems are always sung instead of read, the tone marks are a bit irrelevant. Ahyangyi (talk) 18:35, 17 April 2015 (UTC)