National symbols of Sri Lanka

Various nations are living in world and they speak various languages and they believe various religions. Also their lifestyles, clothes, customs, foods vary from one nation to one, but all countries use national symbols to shown their national and cultural uniqueness. As well as several national symbols can be identified in Sri Lanka

• National flag
• National Song
• National logo
• National bird
• National Flower
• National Cloth
• National Sport
• National tree

Some countries use these all symbols and most of countries use only several symbols. But Sri Lanka use those all symbols.

National flag of the Sri Lanka

National flag is common this in every country. Usage of the flag has lot of history. According to historical fact, first map in the world created in chain year before1122 CE.  First evident for using flag in Sri Lanka is one of the drawing about arrival of the Vijaya to Sri Lanka in the Sanchi Sthupa india. Current flad of the Sri Lanka created base on the flag of the final king, Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe.   Background of this flag was red color and it consists with yellow color border. This flag acquired by British and it was deposited in the write hall church. In the 1908 that flag was found in the England. Sri Lanka acquired independence in 04^th February 1948. After that first prime Minister Mr. DS Senanayeke appointed a committee in order to design flog for Sri Lanka. Committee members was,

• S.W.R.D Bandaranayake (presendent of the Committee)
• Prof. Senarath Paranavithana (Secretory of the committee)
• Mr. T.B.Jaya
• Mr. G.G. Ponnambalam
• Mr. J.R.Jayewardene
• Mr. Lalith Rajapaksha
• Mr. Jorn Kothalawala

Flag was rebuilt by Mr. J.A.D. Perera and S.J. Charlis according to the guidelines of the committee.

Elements of National flag Sri Lanka

Background of the flag is red color and consists with a lion with a sword and there are four Boo leafs corner on the flog. Left site on the lion there are have two lines with orange and green colors. Orange colored line represents Tamil peoples and green colored line represents the Muslim peoples. Lion who with a sword represents arrogant of the nation and four leafs symbolize the righteous of peoples. Committee decided some standards for National flag, length of the flag should be two times of width of the flag.  They also decided the size of the symbols in the flag.