What should they offer in a sacrifice?
Tribes that worshiped gods usually had something like a totem. They might carve it into stone, paint it directly on their bodies or faces, or carve it into wood and make something like a totem pole. But the Han Tribe had no totem, so Luo Chong could only sacrifice something else—namely, a flag.
That was right. The object Luo Chong had come up with as a spiritual anchor was a flag. Modern nations all had national flags. Although the Han Tribe was not yet a nation, they should have one too.
Of course, the flag would not say, "Uphold justice on Heaven's behalf, kill the rich, and aid the poor."
Ahem. The Han Tribe's flag had only one character on it: "Han."
The Han Tribe had no cloth at present, so they could only use animal hide to make a flag. Fortunately, the Han Tribe was not lacking in hides now, so they had enough material for one.
Luo Chong selected a complete Great Horned Deer hide. Its fur had already been scraped off, and he cut it into a rectangle with the largest possible surface area. The characters on it were sewn on with boiled bone, crookedly forming the character "Han."
As for why he used bone, the reason was simple: there was nothing else.
Although Luo Chong could now burn Pine Soot ink, if he wrote directly with ink, the characters would probably disappear after a single rain. He had not developed any other dyes yet. After thinking it over, bone still seemed best—and boiled bone could resist decay.
A flag made by sewing bone onto animal hide obviously could not flutter horizontally, so Luo Chong made this one vertically: a long, vertical flag with several holes punched along its upper