The statue alone cost about 170 million yuan ($25.9 million) however, its poor operation only earned revenue worth less than 13 million yuan in the past four years, far from what was expected, according to media reports. It didn't pass fire control inspections either before its operation started, reports said. The whole statue, however, didn't gain approval from the relevant authorities, except for its base, a two-story building called the Guan Gong cultural exhibition center. The whole project was built to boost tourism based on the image of Guan Yu and the ancient cultural background of Jinzhou, a city that was listed in the first batch of 24 famous historical and cultural cities in China in 1982 which includes Beijing, Xi'an of Northwest China's Shaanxi Province and Lhasa of Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The statue stands in a Guan Yu-themed park which began construction in 2014 and operation in 2016. Qin Jun, deputy director of Jingzhou's natural resources and planning bureau, admitted that the statue is still "too big and tall," although he noted that there is no explicit height limitations on sculptures in the city's planning rules. Jingzhou has organized experts from planning, architecture, sculpture, and cultural protection areas to formulate a relocation plan for the statue, the Jingzhou government announced on Tuesday, after state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) revealed on Monday that local authorities have been turning a deaf ear to conversations about the two-year-long construction of the statute which actually didn't acquire any official approval.Ĭovering an area of 228 mu (15.2 hectares) and weighing more than 1,200 tons, the illegally-built statue measures 57.3 meters in height, surpassing almost double the 24-meter height limit on buildings where the statue is located, CCTV reported.
The giant bronze statue of Guan Gong (or Guan Yu), the renown ancient Chinese general from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), in a park in Jingzhou, Central China's Hubei Province, may have to find another place to stay, after drawing criticism from China's authorities and public who said that its obtrusive size and incompatible appearance have damaged the style and historical context of the ancient city. Now his imagined likeness - there are no actual contemporary descriptions of what he looked liked - seems to issue a challenge to all takers wishing to do harm to the shrine’s home of Jingzhou City.The giant bronze statue of Guan Gong in Jingzhou, Central China's Hubei Province Photo: IC
Though the real man’s life story is lost to history, his name became legend after his accomplishments were mythologized in the 1522 publication of the historic novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The enormous shrine, made of 4,000 individual strips of copper, honors a real man who served during a troubling time in Chinese history known as the Three Kingdoms. Night Shyamalan’s pile of dog poop live action adaptation.) The statue is 190 feet of sweeping bronze artwork that looks like a set-piece out of Avatar: The Last Airbender (the fantastic animated series, not M. It’s not the first enormous statue of Guan Yu, but it’s clearly the most badass. China is renowned for building stupidly-large statues, but it’s really outdone itself with the latest monument to revered general turned war-god of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Guan Yu.
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