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Changsha Designer Creates Scrap Metal Made Art Works to Advocate Environmental Protection

Editor:李莎宁 实习生 彭岸
Source:enghunan.gov.cn
Updated:2016-06-17 10:30:16

Changsha designer Hou Zhongmin and his three friends created a series of art works composed of seven monkeys and a flying horse with scrap metal, naming Hou Nian Ma Yue, or “Horse month of the Monkey year”.

According to Chinese lunar calendar, the Horse month of the Monkey year falls on the fifth month of 2016, i.e. the period from June 5 to July 3 this year.

The flying horse is three meters tall and two meters in width, with more than 1000 pieces of scrap metal used as feathers of its wings. It took Hou’s team 37 days to finish this vivid flying horse.

Seven monkeys had been completed, each in distinct postures, such as playing Suona, beating drum, gong, and cymbals, and playing into a handstand.

“These scrap metal crafts were made to advocate environmental protection”, Hou introduced.

The work “Hou Nian Ma Yue” will be exhibited at a park in Changsha later, to help raise citizens’ environmental protection awareness.