<Tr> <Th> Design </Th> <Td> As above, with the blue and red stripes switched to indicate a state of war . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Designed by </Th> <Td> Executive Order No. 321 of Elpidio Quirino and Executive Order No. 23 of Manuel L. Quezon in 1936 </Td> </Tr> <P> The National Flag of the Philippines (Filipino: Pambansang Watawat ng Pilipinas) is a horizontal flag bicolor with equal bands of royal blue and scarlet, and with a white, equilateral triangle at the hoist . In the center of the triangle is a golden - yellow sun with eight primary rays, each representing a Philippine province . At each vertex of the triangle is a five - pointed, golden - yellow star, each of which representing one of the country's three main island groups--Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, the central star originally referred to Panay (where Iloilo is located, the first province outside Luzon to have raised this flag) which is commonly mistaken to be the whole island group of Visayas . Panay, which recent interpretations call as "as representative of the entire Visayas region". A unique feature of this flag is its ability to indicate a state of war if it is displayed with the red side on top . </P> <P> The flag's length is twice its width, giving it an aspect ratio of 1: 2 . The length of all the sides of the white triangle are equal to the width of the flag . Each star is oriented in such manner that one of its tips points towards the vertex at which it is located . Moreover, the gap - angle between two neighbours of the 8 ray - bundles is as large as the angle of one ray - bundle (so 22.5 °), with each major ray having double the thickness of its two minor rays . The golden sun is not exactly in the center of the triangle but shifted slightly to the right . This flag is waved when having ceremonies </P>

What do the eight rays of the sun symbolize
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