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新年快乐: On Chinese Year of the Rooster, The Middle Kingdom Honors The Donald

A giant rooster ,with gold Trump features, three-toed feet and a blood-red wattle has been erected in a Chinese shopping center in the Chinese city of Taiyuan, just three weeks prior to Donald Trump’s inauguration.

“This was way more yuge than I expected,” Seattle artist  Casey Latiolais

So today begins the Chines New Year, the year of the rooster.  In Chinese element theory, each zodiac year is associated with one of five elements: Gold (Metal), Wood, Water, Fire, or Earth, which means that a Fire Rooster, for example, comes once every 60-year cycle.

This year China honors the New Year with as statue of  Donald J. Trump complete with  golden quiff, bushy eyebrows and preening gestures. three-toed feet , and  blood-red wattle.  The Trump rooster was designed by Casey Latiolais, an illustrator and animator in Seattle.

Global Times, a state-run tabloid, said on Tuesday that onlookers in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province, had praised the statue as a “perfect blend of Chinese and Western cultures.”

Inflatable “Trump chicken” replicas areon sale at Taobao, an online shopping bazaar, with a 32-foot version advertised for $1,725.


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