On 1939 the present Vietnamese flag was created by one teacher who worked for Vietnam communist party. One year later he was prosecuted to dead by the French colonialist. The flag has to main colors: Red stands for blood and yellow stands for color of Vietnamese skin. "Red blood and yellow skin are Vietnamese". The star with five focal points stands for five type of people at that time were: Intellectuals, Farmers, Workers, Business men and Soldiers.

The Vietnamese flag first officially hoisted in the Ba Dinh  Square on the occasion of the foundation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 when President Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration of Independent. ( Former name for Socialist Republic of Vietnam).