1912, China (Republic). Order of the Golden Grain (嘉禾). 2nd Class Star Badge. R!

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1912, China (Republic). Order of the Golden Grain (嘉禾). 2nd Class Star Badge. R!
Mint Period: 1912-1929
Reference:
Barac-359, Li-pg. 80.
Denomination: Order of the Golden Grain - 2nd Class, Star Badge.
Condition:
Minor enamel damages, some welding marks in reverse (probably repaired long ago), otherwise a beautiful, fully intact specimen!
Material: Silver & Enamel
Weight: 74.01gm
Diameter: 87mm
Obverse:
Red, black, white, yellow, light blue, dark blue, light green and dark green enamelled insignia, mounted to an eight-pointed silver star base.
Reverse:
Seven characters inside round medallions above square seal with inscriptions.
The
Order of the Precious Brilliant Golden Grain
(Order of Chia-Ho (
嘉禾
)), more simply the
Order of the Golden Grain
is one ofthe most commonly known orders  in China. Yuan Shih Kai instituted the Order of the Golden Grain on 29 July  1912 for outstanding civil ormilitary meritorious achievement. It was widely conferred by the Peiyang  Government in Beijing, until its abolition by the Nationalist Government in 1929.
Five Races Under One Union
was one of the major principles upon which the Republic of China was founded in 1911 at the time of the Xinhai Revolution.  Its central tenet was the harmonious existence under one nation of what were considered the five major ethnic groups in China: the Han, the Manchus, the Mongols, the Tibetans, and the Hui.
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Yuan Shikai
(Chinese:
袁世凱
; pinyin:
Yuán Shìkǎi
; 16 September 1859 – 6 June 1916) was a Chinese military and government official who rose to power during the late Qing dynasty, becoming the Emperor of the Empire of China (1915–1916). He tried to save the dynasty with a number of modernization projects including bureaucratic, fiscal, judicial, educational, and other reforms, despite playing a key part in the failure of the Hundred Days' Reform. He established the first modern army and a more efficient provincial government in North China in the last years of the Qing dynasty before the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor, the last monarch of the Qing dynasty, in 1912. Through negotiation, he became the first official president of the Republic of China in 1912. This army and bureaucratic control were the foundation of his autocratic rule as the first formal President of the Republic of China. He was frustrated in a short-lived attempt to restore hereditary monarchy in China, with himself as the
Hongxian Emperor
(Chinese:
洪憲皇帝
). His death shortly after his abdication formalized the fragmentation of the Chinese political system and the end of the Beiyang government as China's central authority.
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