The good wishes that these playful characters bring to people around the world as they invite you to join the fun and excitement of the Olympic Games include the traditional wishes of prosperity, happiness, passion, health and good luck. The playful, friendly Fuwa are intended to also touch the hearts of all people in the spirit of the Olympics to unite people in peace and friendship as we follow the theme of 'One World, One Dream.
Looking closer at the ancient culture and art of China the water and fish design elements of Beibei are the symbols of prosperity and harvest. The fish also represents having surplus and is traditionally seen on decorations at the start of the Lunar New Year wishing a good year and a good life ahead. The black and white Jingjing brings smiles to faces of children everywhere when they see this playful character and is said to bring happiness to all.
Jingjing represents the protected panda species adored by people the world over. The lotus designs in the headdress remind us of trees and the wish for harmony between man and nature.
The passion of sport is represented by the character of fire, Huanhuan. This central character is the core spirit of the Olympics with the light and warmth of fire that brings warm wishes to all as they join in the Olympic spirit of the Games. Five sturgeons were presented by China to Hong Kong with each fish representing an Olympic ring, in addition to the "motherland's love" for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The smallest of the five sturgeon 1.
Necropsy showed that the bite was not aggressive, but a reflex action from contact between the fish. Ocean Park said no one is at fault since in the almost 10 years the eight barracudas had been with the park, they had never showed any signs of aggression.
Feng shui experts were divided about the death of the sturgeon, there were some that said this event may imply misfortune, and there were some that said 'the public did not need to worry too much because all fish die' and 'Can I say it's a bad omen for the Olympic Games if, for example, my five tadpoles - which I say represent the Olympic rings - die at home?
Beijing's central government replaced the one that died with five more sturgeons. Han Meilin: The year-old artist Han Meilin suffered two myocardial infarctions while designing the Fuwa. Fu Niu Lele represents a harmonious co-existence between mankind and nature, it represents athletes with a disability striving to make progress, and it represents the Beijing Paralympics Games' concept of "Transcendence, Equality and Integration.
There were originally 87 mascot designs suggestions. These were discussed by a jury on December 30, , and shortlisted to three designs: a Chinese river dolphin lipotes vexillifer , and two figures from traditional Chinese mythology, the Monkey King and Ne Zha. A revising group, lead by Wu GuanYing, looked over the three designs, and found that the dolphin and Monkey King designs could cause problems with intellectual property rights, while the Ne Zha was not suitable.
They considered looking for an alternative design, and Wu GuanYing came up with the idea of a cartoon cow. Wu GuanYing said "I grew up in the countryside and was once a cow herder, so I know that the cow is one of the animals closest to human beings. They all have rhyming two-syllable names -- an affectionate way to address children in China. The most popular, Huanhuan, is red symbolizing the Olympic Flame and the passion of sport while the second favorite is Jingjing who is black and represents wood as a giant panda.
Beibei, blue, represents water as a Chinese sturgeon fish while Yingying, yellow, symbolizes earth as a Tibetan antelope and Nini, green, is for the sky as a swallow. But like most Olympic mascots that began at the Winter Games in Grenoble, France, Fuwa have got a lukewarm reception overall -- as well as being used by groups to highlight political issues in China and blamed by some Chinese for bad events.
Amnesty International, which has slammed China for failing to honor its human rights pledges, created a monkey figure called Nu Wa, meaning angry, young man, to protest Internet censorship. Another group came up with a YouTube video of GenGen Genocide, a red and yellow character with a skull and crossbones gun and a fuel bowser nozzle on a head-dress, to raise China's role in Darfur here. Related Coverage.
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