Order of the Auspicious Cloud
The Order of the Auspicious Cloud ( Ching Yun Chang ) was founded on April 19, 1934 and was an award of the Manchurian Empire . This order as well as the order of the pillars of the state alternated in rank with each other. This corresponded to both the Order of the Rising Sun and the Order of the Sacred Treasure, as it approached the Japanese Empire .
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Order classes
Like its Japanese counterpart, the order consists of eight classes, the last two of which are not enameled:
- Grand cross with breast star on the left side of the breast
- Grand officer with breast star on the right breast
- Commander
- Officer's Cross
- Knight's Cross 1st Class
- Knight's Cross II class
- Decoration of honor 1st class
- Decoration of honor II class
Order decoration
The medal of the I. to VI. Class, i.e. the enamelled classes, consists of a yellow enamelled, red-rimmed circular sun , from which three rays emanate in a cross shape ; the middle ray is white and the two lateral rays are yellow. Small blue clouds have been fitted between these cross rays. The space between the clouds and the sun was filled in with black-brown. The medal hangs on a stylized orchid flower that exactly matches that of the orchid order . The metal parts of the medal are golden from the 1st to the 5th grade, those of the 6th grade are silver. The 7th grade is old gold and the 8th grade is gray and silver, neither of which has an orchid hanger.
The breast star, on the other hand, is eight-pointed and completely brilliant . It is worn in class I on the left side of the chest and in class II on the right side of the chest. In the second class it is considered the main order, in the first class as a subsidiary order. The order of the III. Class is worn as a collar order and is also considered a subsidiary order of the second class. Classes IV to VIII differ only slightly from each other and are all worn on a light blue band with red stripes on the left side of the chest. The fourth class differs from the fifth class only in the ribbon rosette on the ribbon. The V class, however, differs from the VI. Great only because it was not made of gold, but also silver metal. As mentioned above, the last two classes are not enameled.
Similar to Japan , the rosette was worn in the buttonhole and only differed in its color and pattern in the individually awarded classes. The rosette of all eight classes was light blue with red lines. The first and second classes were only distinguished by a red ring, the III. with a red cross and the fourth grade with a red cross. The V. and VI. Classes were marked by six radii, the VII. And VIII. Class by three red radii.
literature
- Václav Měřička : The Book of Orders and Awards. Verlag Werner Dausien, Hanau 1976, ISBN 3-7684-1680-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uniform Markt magazine, year 1944, issue 8, p. 5, technical report by Ottfried Neubecker on the orders of Manschukuo