锦旗

choi

Julie Makinen, In China, Nothing Says Thanks (or Thanks for Nothing) Like Big Red Banners. Los Angeles Times, Nov 8, 2015.
www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-banner-20151105-story.html
(Jinqis "have declined in popularity in the Internet age. An explosion of bribery and corruption in China also rendered jinqi almost pathetically quaint: envelopes of cash, gift cards, watches and other “tokens of appreciation” quickly became more popular (and effective) means of expressing gratitude (and getting special treatment in return).  Now, with the Communist Party several years into a massive anti-graft campaign, jinqi are coming back into vogue")

My comment:
(a) thanks for nothing: "used to show you are ​annoyed when someone has done something you are ​unhappy about or has ​failed to ​help you in some way"
dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/thanks-for-nothing
(b) "a tractor knocked 53-year-old Jiang Min'ai 蒋敏爱 and her 3-year-old grandson off her electric scooter last month, pedestrians in the eastern city of Taizhou 浙江省台州市 天台县 called an ambulance. But after 30 minutes, no help had arrived, and no motorists stopped to lend a hand.  Finally a local judge, Fan Hong [sic] 浙江省杭州市江干区人民法院法官 范宏来, passed the scene of the accident. He immediately ordered his driver to turn around; they picked up Jiang and the injured boy and delivered them to a hospital. * * * 'You enthusiastically serve the people, helping to save the dying and heal the wounded! 热心为民 救死扶伤' ”
(c) Zhou Li  周立 无锡/ 不为人民服务
(d) "A few years ago, Huan Tiejun 浣铁军, a 40-year-old from the city of Changsha * * * [截访先进单位] * * * In response, Huan was detained for nine days on charges of  'bringing a negative impact to the local government.' ”

News report on Apr 24, 2012 cited 决定书 as saying because "扰乱政府办公场所正常工作秩序 * * * 根据《中华人民共和国治安管理处罚法》第二十三条， * * * 行政拘留九日处罚."
(e) I am talking about my time in Taiwan, up to 1984. There, presentment of jinqi mostly happened in sports event to winner, if at all. I saw a few physicians in whose offices each a dozen 匾额 (Japanese: 扁額), not 锦旗, were hung on the wall.