A media outlet run by Jingzhou’s information office posted a vague announcement yesterday saying the Guan Yu statue would be relocated as a “rectification” measure, and that experts had been invited to help figure out how and where to move it. With characteristic melodrama, British tabloid The Sun labeled it a “monument of war,” while science magazine Popular Mechanics said it “might be the most epic statue of all time.”īut epic or not, Jingzhou officials plan to give the Guan Yu statue its marching orders. When it was first unveiled in 2016, it went viral both in China and abroad for its massive scale. The 58-meter-tall monument to China’s best-known war god - touted by developers as the largest bronze statue in the world - was built as part of a boom in mammoth statuary in China over the past decade. The announcement comes a little over a month after China’s Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development ordered the “rectification” of the statue, saying it “ruined Jingzhou’s historical character and culture.” A colossal 1,200-ton bronze statue of Chinese warrior-god Guan Yu that enjoyed a brief bout of global notoriety in 2016 will be moved from its current location in a park in the ancient central city of Jingzhou, according to local officials.
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