Thirty-three years ago today, on October 31, 1992 (October 6, 1992 in the lunar calendar), the People's Liberation Army Daily published an article "Grand Marshal's epaulettes prepared for Mao Zedong". On October 31, 1992, the People's Liberation Army Daily published an article "Grand Marshal's epaulettes prepared for Mao Zedong". The article said: It is well known that Mao Zedong did not become a grand marshal. However, a grand marshal epaulette was once prepared for him, but I am afraid it is little known. Mao Zedong's grand marshal epaulettes were made in the first half of 1954 by the 3522 factory of the General Headquarters of Tianjin. Zhang Shuzhen, a 69-year-old retired worker, said: "The marshal epaulettes were hand-embroidered by more than a dozen of our female workers. At that time, we were all big girls in our twenties. When we heard that we were going to embroider epaulettes for Chairman Mao and other founding fathers, we were very energetic! At that time, the craftsmanship was very backward, and it was completely manual embroidery, but the sisters were not afraid of hardship. They had to knit, make flowers, sew, glue and iron for more than ten hours a day. After months of hard work, we finally embroidered the exquisite marshal epaulettes. After completing the task, Guo Lianrong and other comrades among our sisters also went to Beijing and were received by Chairman Mao. "Although the grand marshal epaulettes were ready, Mao Zedong did not agree to the title of grand marshal of the People's Republic of China that the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress intended to bestow on him, so the grand marshal epaulettes have been in the showroom of Factory 3522 for nearly 40 years. The epaulettes are golden yellow with red edges, 14 cm long and 5.8 cm wide; the upper end is embroidered with gold thread with the national emblem of the People's Republic of China, and the lower end is embroidered with a silver-white five-pointed star emblem. The star emblem is embroidered with silver-white pine branches.