The big yellow duck came to Beijing. What magical experiences did the big yellow duck have?

On September 6, 2013, the "Big Yellow Duck" will start its first trip to the capital at the Beijing Garden Expo

Since the birth of the first "Big Yellow Duck" in 2007, Huo Fuman started from Amsterdam in the Netherlands with his works. As of June 2013, he had visited 14 cities in 11 countries including Nuremberg in Germany, Sao Paulo in Brazil, Osaka in Japan, London in the United Kingdom, and Sydney in Australia. It has received great attention everywhere and has also brought great commercial value to the local tourism and retail industries.

On August 17, 2009, the big yellow duck was in Osaka, Japan.

On May 12, 2013, the big yellow duck was in Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong.

On January 8, 2013, the Big Yellow Duck visited Darling Harbour, Sydney.

Origin of the Rubber Duck

The Rubber Duck (English name: Rubber Duck, mainland netizens call it the Hong Kong Little Yellow Duck, and the Hong Kong media calls it the Giant Duck), was created by the Dutch artist Frank Florentijn Hofman created a giant rubber duck artwork based on the classic bathtub yellow duck. He has produced many types of artworks, including one of the largest rubber ducks in the world, measuring 26× 20×32 meters.

Source of creative inspiration

In 1992, a cargo ship departed from China and planned to cross the Pacific to arrive at the Port of Tacoma, Washington State, USA. However, it encountered a strong storm on the way and a full A container of 29,000 bathtub toys fell into the sea and burst. The yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs inside floated to the surface, forming a huge "duck fleet" and have been drifting with the tide ever since. Crossing the ocean from China to the coasts of the United States and the United Kingdom, the journey was filled with all kinds of wonderful experiences, quite like a beautiful fairy tale. Most of these bathtub toys are yellow inflatable rubber ducks. These little things used their weak buoyancy and stoic endurance to travel across the ocean from China and finally landed in the United Kingdom and the United States after 15 years of hardship. The experience not only moved "Duck Chasing fans" from all over the world, but also inspired Hofmann's creative inspiration (the inspiration came from an art exhibition that Hofmann visited in Rotterdam and saw the landscape paintings of Dutch art masters).

Exhibition experience

Previous accidents

Assassination incident

In 2009, Belgium. When the rubber duck was exhibited, local residents were afraid that it would be punctured, so they spontaneously formed a patrol team to protect the rubber duck from 20:00 to 6:00 every day. Later, the police joined the patrol.

Air leakage incident

On May 14, 2013, Hong Kong Harbor City, the organizer of the Hong Kong exhibition, conducted a deflation inspection on the Big Yellow Duck. The failure to notify the public in advance triggered various rumors such as "the duck was damaged and leaked air" and "mainland tourists threw dozens of cigarette butts causing the duck to leak air."

On the evening of May 21, 2013, the big yellow duck reappeared in Victoria Harbor after the staff had inflated it for days.