'Little Mermaid' arrives in Shanghai

吳南嵐
0 CommentsPrint E-mail Xinhua, April 3, 2010
Adjust font size:

Denmark's iconic "Little Mermaid" statue arrived in Shanghai Friday for display at the World Expo, which opens next month.

After arriving at Shanghai Pudong International Airport at 3 p.m., the box housing the "Little Mermaid" was carried directly to a warehouse under Customs' supervision.

 

Denmark's iconic "Little Mermaid" statue arrived at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on April 2.

The Customs authorities will not open the box until about April 25, when the "Little Mermaid" will officially move to her new home in Shanghai, the Denmark Pavilion at the Expo site, according to the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination.

It is the first time for the 1.5-meter landmark, which commemorates Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen, has left her perch at Copenhagen harbor in almost 100 years.

"I have been looking forward to seeing her with my own eyes," said 56-year-old Zhang Zexiang, a construction worker at the Denmark Pavilion.

He said many of his co-workers had read or heard of Andersen's fairy tales when they were children.

"When we knew the pavilion will be the new home for the Little Mermaid, expectations and imagination became an impetus to work," he said.

The beloved "Little Mermaid" will stay in China for six months, when she will sit in a pool filled with water from the Copenhagen harbor at the Denmark Pavilion on the east bank of the Huangpu River in Shanghai.

Her presence in the pavilion will showcase a fairytale world for an estimated 70 million Expo visitors from around the globe from May 1 to Oct. 31.

Andersen's works were introduced to China in the early 1900s and are still widely read by Chinese children.

The fishtailed bronze statue is Denmark's most popular tourist attraction. Created by Danish sculpture Edvard Eriksen, the "Little Mermaid" has not moved from her harbor site since she was unveiled there in 1913.

A video installation by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will replace the "Little Mermaid" until she returns in November. The multimedia artwork will include a live broadcast of the statue in Shanghai.

In Andersen's tale, the mermaid is a sea king's daughter who falls in love with a prince and must wait 300 years to become human. It was turned into a Disney film in 1989.

Print E-mail Bookmark and Share

Go to Forum >>0 Comments

No comments.

Add your comments...

  • User Name Required
  • Your Comment
  • Racist, abusive and off-topic comments may be removed by the moderator.
Send your storiesGet more from China.org.cnMobileRSSNewsletter
主站蜘蛛池模板: 亚洲精彩视频在线观看| 怡红院免费手机在线观看| 哦好大好涨拨出来bl| 国产亚洲欧美日韩亚洲中文色| 国产成人无码精品一区在线观看| 啦啦啦中文在线观看| 999在线视频精品免费播放观看| 成人亚洲欧美激情在线电影| 在线看亚洲十八禁网站| 尤果圈3.2.6破解版| 手机在线看片国产日韩生活片| 亚洲婷婷天堂在线综合| 狠狠色噜噜狠狠狠狠97不卡| 国产成人精品综合在线观看 | 一区二区高清在线观看| 欧美一级免费观看| 日韩欧美一区二区三区免费观看| 第一福利官方导航大全| 成视频年人黄网站免费视频| 亚洲欧美7777| 老头天天吃我奶躁我的视频| 国产精品无码电影在线观看| a级特黄毛片免费观看| 日本年轻的继坶中文字幕| 么公的又大又深又硬视频 | 99久久免费精品视频| 天天躁天天弄天天爱| 久久精品99国产精品日本| 男人j进入女人j内部免费网站| 正能量网站不用下载免费观看视频软件| 国产h视频在线| 最近中文字幕2019| 免费乱理伦片在线直播| 国产精品网址你懂的| 国内精品九九久久久精品| 中国内地毛片免费高清| 欧妇女乱妇女乱视频| 亚洲综合色在线| 玩肥熟老妇BBW视频| 日本妈妈xxxxx| 国产精品亚洲天堂|