Chengdu Wuhou District, Shayan Street appeared “gnawing the ground” stone lion.
“Mom, why is this lion gnawing on the ground?” Recently, a stone lion half trapped in the ground on Shayan Street, Wuhou District, Chengdu, Sichuan, has attracted a lot of discussion among passers-by. It is reported that the stone lion is oddly shaped, the hind legs bent in a squatting position, most of the front half of the body into the ground, and next to the absence of any signage to explain.
In the same street there are “resting cattle”, “wrestling children”, “selling candy cane old man” and other conventional sculpture, but only “gnawing stone lion “The shape is confusing.
The report points out that Shayan Street is one of the 35 “Park City Model Neighborhood” spots created by Chengdu. For the “gnawing stone lion” meaning, the street chief said “this street is newly built, not quite clear”.
Subsequently, the reporter called the Jin Yang Street Office through the publicity department. Within two hours, the same staff gave three different responses, initially said that the stone lion was originally standing, after the road remediation process was buried by mistake by the construction side; then the staff changed their words, after communication with the design unit, the stone lion is originally half into the shape of the earth, the designer wants to create the feeling of excavated cultural relics; then the staff called the reporter and changed their words again, said the design of the stone lion’s intention is to simulate the excavated cultural relics, the first is lying down shape, but in the process of road blackening last year, the construction accidentally caused the stone lion was buried more than 10 centimeters.
The report points out that the staff changed their story twice within two hours, reflecting the casualness of grassroots work. If the staff’s third statement is true, it reveals two major problems.
First, lazy style of government. If the road construction caused the stone lion sinking, nearly half a year no one asked, revealing a get-it-done, perfunctory style. Second, the landscape is created at will. In recent years, China’s oddball landscape, “spicy architecture” has emerged, from the “Fortuna building”, “wine bottle building” to “flying kiss “, which has attracted people to spit.
A stone lion half-sunken in the ground on Shayan Street, Wuhou District, Chengdu, Sichuan, has attracted a lot of discussion among passers-by.
In recent years, odd landscapes have emerged across China, with buildings such as the “Fortuna Building” and the “Wine Bottle Building”, prompting discussion.
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