A street scene of “stone lions gnawing on the ground” in Chengdu, China, has sparked much debate. (Photo source: Weibo)
A bizarrely shaped stone lion half-sunken into the ground in Shayan Street, Wuhou District, Chengdu, China, has sparked debate among passersby. The stone lion’s back legs are bent in a squatting position, and the front half of its body is mostly stuck in the ground, and there is no sign explaining it. After the official media questioned that this was “lazy government and no one cares”, the stone lion disappeared overnight.
On March 12, the official media of the Communist Party of China, Xinhua Daily Telegraph, published an article on its WeChat public number criticizing the “stone lion” blocking the street in Chengdu, questioning whether it was due to lazy government and no one was in charge. The article said that the same street, there are also resting cattle, wrestling children, old man selling candy canes and other conventional sculptures, but only this gnawing stone lion shape is confusing. Moreover, the “gnawing stone lion” behind an already uneven blind alley, because this stone lion blocking the road, suddenly also turned a corner.
In this regard, a staff member initially said that the stone lion was originally standing, after the road improvement process was buried by mistake by the construction side; then the staff member changed his mind and said that, after communication with the design unit, the stone lion was originally half into the shape of the earth, the design side hopes to create the feeling of excavated cultural relics.
Soon, the staff again changed his story, said the design of the stone lion is intended to simulate the excavation of cultural relics, the first is lying down shape, but in last year’s road blackening (paving asphalt) process, the construction accidentally caused the stone lion was buried more than 10 centimeters.
The report said that if the staff’s third statement is true, it reveals two major problems. One is the lazy style of governance. If the road construction caused the stone lion sinking, nearly half a year unattended, revealing a style of getting by and getting by, perfunctory. Second, the landscape is created at will.
The report triggered a heated debate, the evening of the 12th there are people found “gnawing stone lion” is under construction. 13 morning stone lion has been removed.
In recent years, strange landscapes have been popping up all over China. For example, Guangzhou Rongchuang Grand Theatre, which was listed as one of the “Top 10 Ugly Buildings in China”. Designed by the British architectural firm Steven Chilton Architects, the theater is said to have been inspired by the Maritime Silk Road, with a look that evokes the folds and textures of silk.
The entire outer layer of the theater is in “Communist red” as the tone. Netizens said it was “too harsh”. Others said it was a “netherworld version of Chinese-style”, like “embroidered shoes in a ghost movie”.
In addition, the new buildings of the National Grand Theatre and CCTV, which Jiang Zemin had planned to build, were called “big grave bag” and “big pants” respectively.
On December 13, 2001, the Chinese Communist Party officially announced that construction of the National Grand Theatre would begin and be completed in September 2007. The National Grand Theatre is located on the west side of the Great Hall of Beijing, covering an area of 118,900 square meters, with a total construction area of 149,500 square meters. The cost of the entire project is more than 3 billion RMB, which is almost twice the total amount of donations received by Project Hope over the past 15 years, and can support the Education of 5 million poor students.
The exterior of the Grand Theater looks like a “big grave bag”, and its underground entrance is like a grave path. Some people say that the center of Tiananmen Square in Beijing is a tomb bag, so that the Forbidden City and the Great Hall are “open to the tomb”!
The CCTV building was also a project that Jiang Zemin had decided to build when he was in power. The building is located in the middle of the East Third Ring Road in Chaoyang District, Beijing, with a total investment of about 5 billion RMB in construction safety. The building consists of two inclined buildings connected by a 90-degree roof but bent to each other, with the appearance of a backwards U-shaped, which is jokingly described by Beijing residents as resembling a “big pants”, with a meaning of obscenity.
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