Giant Yellow Duck Land in Wuhan, netizens joked: watch out your neck
Staff Reporter | | Jun 03, 2013 09:39 AM EDT |
"Duckie is going to land in Wuhan!"On Friday in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, residents were especially delighted when the state-run Changjiang Daily announced that a giant yellow duck would also soon be visiting. Right after the news was released through sina weibo, China's popular micro-blogging service. It caused a heated discussion among netizens. The micro-blog has been forwarded and commented for sixty thousand times up to now. Some netizens joked: "Wuhan giant yellow duck, watch out your neck!", because braised duck neck with soy sauce is a famous and delicious snack in Wuhan.
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This weibo wrote: "Giant yellow duck has been to more than ten countries. It is highly experienced and knowledgeable." Giant yellow duck will create quite a stir and admiration wherever it goes. Under a tireless effort between a Wuhan real-estate developer and the duck's copyright owner, the Wuhan duck is being brought as part of an arrangement brokered.So here comes the cute yellow rubber duck, are you ready? Just get high with it.
Some netizens questioned about the duck's copyright. According to Changjiang Daily, There is no doubt that the original giant yellow duck's copyright belongs to Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman, Hofman is also known as the " father of giant yellow duck".
Hoffman hopes the yellow duck can spread happiness and positive energy to the public during its tour around the world. He said: "I prefer to view the world from a child's perspective, I hope the giant yellow duck can change the landscape of a city briefly, Let the audience reexamine the perceptions on their city, interact with the giant inflatable art work." Thank you, giant yellow duck!It brings back many good memories. Every one who ever visited the yellow duck would remember the happiness it brought here.
However, the Wuhan duck is just a smaller version of the duck that floated in Hong Kong Victoria Harbor. In fact, they are not the same.
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