According to records, after the success of the Northern Expedition, which subdued feuding warlords at the end of the 1920s, the Ministry of Finance planned to make new dies for the national coinage, and requested that the government select a national flower.
根據記載，北伐成功之後，國民政府財政部因為鑄鐫國幣新模，呈請選定國花。