why my z axis is point to the inner of the screen?

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I’m an opengl beginner.I’m sorry my english is very poor,I am just puzzled by my program,because i think it show me that z axis
is point to the inner of the screen.Shouldn’t it point out?
the follow is my program;

#include <gl/glut.h>

static float angle_x = 0, angle_y=-10,angle_z=0;

void axis() //draw the axis
{

glBegin(GL_LINES);
    glColor3f(1.0,0.0,0.0);
 glVertex3f(-0.25f,0.0f,0.0f);    //x   red
 glVertex3f(0.8f,0.0f,0.0f); 
 
 glColor3f(0.8f,0.5f,0.9f);	 
 glVertex3f(0.0f,-0.25f,0.0f);  //y
 glVertex3f(0.0f,0.8f,0.0f);
 
 glColor3f(1.0,1.0,1.0);	 
 glVertex3f(0.0f,0.0f,-0.5f);  //z   white
 glVertex3f(0.0f,0.0f,0.8f);
glEnd();


glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);

glVertex3f(-0.1,-0.1,0.8);//z
glVertex3f(0.1,0.1,0.8);
glVertex3f(0.0,0.0,1.0);

glColor3f(1.0,0.0,0.0);//x
glVertex3f(0.8,0.1,0.1);
glVertex3f(0.8,-0.1,-0.1);
glVertex3f(1.0,0.0,0.0);

glColor3f(0.8f,0.5f,0.9f);//y
glVertex3f(-0.1,0.8,0.1);
glVertex3f(0.1,0.8,-0.1);
glVertex3f(0.0,1.0,0.0);

glEnd();

}

void myplay()
{

glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);	
glLoadIdentity();

/* gluPerspective(60.0f,1,0.1f,100.0f);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
glTranslatef(0,0,-2);

*/
glRotatef(-30,0,1,0);
glRotatef(-30,1,0,0);
axis();
glBegin(GL_POLYGON);
glColor3f(1.0,0.0,0.0);
glVertex3f(0.0f,0.0f,0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.0f,0.5f,0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.5f,0.5f,0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.5f,0.0f,0.0f);
glEnd();
glBegin(GL_POLYGON);
glColor3f(1.0f,1.0,0.0);
glVertex3f(0.0f,0.0f,0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.0f,0.5f,0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.0f,0.5f,0.5f);
glVertex3f(0.0f,0.0f,0.5f);
glEnd();

glBegin(GL_POLYGON);
glColor3f(1.0,0.0,1.0);
glVertex3f(0.0f,0.0f,0.0f);      
glVertex3f(0.0f,0.0f,0.5f);
glColor3f(1.0,0.0,0.0);
glVertex3f(0.5f,0.0f,0.5f);
glColor3f(0.0,1.0,0.0);
glVertex3f(0.5f,0.0f,0.0f);
  glEnd();

  glBegin(GL_POLYGON);
  glColor3f(0.0,1.0,0.0);
  glVertex3f(0.0f,0.5f,0.0f);      
  glVertex3f(0.5f,0.5f,0.0f);	 
  glVertex3f(0.5f,0.5f,0.5f);	  
  glVertex3f(0.0f,0.5f,0.5f);
  glEnd();

  glBegin(GL_POLYGON);
  glColor3f(0.0,1.0,1.0);
  glVertex3f(0.5f,0.5f,0.0f);      
  glVertex3f(0.5f,0.5f,0.5f);	 
  glVertex3f(0.5f,0.0f,0.5f);	  
  glVertex3f(0.5f,0.0f,0.0f);
  glEnd();
  
  glBegin(GL_POLYGON);
  glColor3f(0.4,1.0,0.6);
  glVertex3f(0.5f,0.5f,0.5f);      
  glVertex3f(0.5f,0.0f,0.5f);	 
  glVertex3f(0.0f,0.0f,0.5f);	  
  glVertex3f(0.0f,0.5f,0.5f);
  glEnd();

  glFlush();

}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])

{
glutInit(&argc, argv);
glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_RGB | GLUT_SINGLE);
glutInitWindowPosition(300,200);
glutInitWindowSize(400,400);
glutCreateWindow(“cube”);
glutDisplayFunc(&myplay);

glutMainLoop();
return 0;

}

I think the result tell me that the Z axis is point to the innner of the screen.why?
and i found that if i add the remarked code in the founction myplay(),the Z axis direction
will point out,it will be ok,but at this time the rotate angle will be not right .why?
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you are drawing the Z axis in a weird way:


glVertex3f(0.0f,0.0f,-0.5f); //z white
glVertex3f(0.0f,0.0f,0.8f);

The common way is to draw a line from origin (0,0,0) to (0,0,1). This way you display a normalized vector along z axis.
I have noticed that you are computing some rotations before drawing axis, it would change the axis orientation then.

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thank you very much.now i think i know the answer to my second question.but i still don’t know the first question.

I compute some rotation is to look at the z axis ,and as we know the rotation won’t change the right-handed cartesian coordinates ,but the program result is left-handed cartesian coordinates.i am puzzled.if you can run the program and tell me more about the result ,it is too greatful,thank you very much