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A pope-themed statue will be built in Ulanchabu, Inner Mongolia, and 20% of citizens do not agree with the current plan
Official information shows that Ulan Qab, Inner Mongolia, will build a landscape sculpture with the theme “Capital of the Chinese potato”. On September 17, the public WeChat account “Ulan Qab Daily” informed all citizens about the two proposed sculptures. request opinions.
According to the news, in order to show the new image of Ulan Qab, show the flavor of the city and enhance the cultural connotation of the city, Ulan Qab invited Mr. Dong Shubing, director of the Department of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts Tsinghua University Arts, to design the theme of the landscape of the center of the island in Yingbin Road, Jining New District. sculpture. Option one, “Happy potatoes.”
The first option is “Happy Potato” 20 meters high. The scheme takes the form of aggregating a huge potato as the main body, gradually moving from the real to the virtual from the bottom up. It is like playing a joyous movement and dancing to a youthful and colorful melody, symbolizing the time when Ulan Chabu vigorously developed the potato industry. Energy and happy life. The overall form is upright, bright, lively, rhythmic, humorous and humorous, and the concrete and the abstract are organically integrated, shaping it into a bright spot in ambient space and an urban theme. The second option is “It’s not me or dad.”
The second option is the 25-meter high “no-yo-mo potato.” The plan takes the form of potato aggregation as the main model, gradually accumulating from top to bottom, like a monument, recording Ulan Qab’s ambition and determination to vigorously develop the potato industry in the new era. The general shape features the shape of the number “1”, which implies the unique status of “China’s potato capital”, symbolizing “China’s potato capital, Moshu not own” and solidifying the spirit of innovation and development. scored by Ulan Chabu.
According to the results of the voting on the night of September 17, 42% of the voters preferred the first option, 33% preferred the second option, and 23% of the voters believed that neither option was worthy of Ulan Chabu’s temperament. . .
Ulan Qab is located in the central part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and has been named the “Potato Capital of China”, “Oat Capital of China” and “Prairie Yogurt Capital of China”. Among them, the potato planting area has been stable at around 4 million mu throughout the year, and the total production is around 4 million tons. Area and production rank first among cities at the prefectural level of the country. According to the official presentation, “Ulanchabu Potato” received the award “China’s Top 100 Regional Public Agricultural Products Brands” and “China’s Most Influential Brand”, with a brand value of more than 10 billion yuan.
Examples of large-scale vegetable-themed sculptures are not uncommon in China. For example, the giant sculpture of “Chinese cabbage” at Henan’s Neihuang County Agricultural Exhibition Park is 19 meters high and 8 meters in diameter, which means “one hundred riches.” The “giant Chinese cabbage” in Liaocheng, Shandong is also 9 meters high.
Paper journalist Zhong Yuhao
