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Rowers passing by the colossal statue of Guan Yu - hero of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms - built in 2016 and demolished in 2021, in Jingzhou, Hubei province. 2019.

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Jingzhou, China © Damien Gosset

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Street photography

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Jingzhou, Hubei, China, Sep 2023

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The Guan Yu Statue is a large monument to Chinese deified military general Guan Yu located in Jingzhou, China. The statue was designed by Han Meilin, and finished construction in 2016.[1] It stands at 58 metres tall, weighs 1,197 tonnes, and is made of around 4,000 bronze strips.[2] The project began in 2013 when Han Meilin visited Jingzhou for inspiration, and personally oversaw the designing and installing of the statue. [...] Inside the base is a 7,710 square-metre museum and shrine to Guan Yu.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Guan_Yu_%28Jingzhou%29

(58 meters = 190 feet. For comparison, the Statue of Liberty in the US, not counting its 154′ pedestal, is 150 feet high.) Photo by SifaV6.

Guan Yu, as portrayed in the 14th century Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is the basis for the character Portor / Kan-U in Capcom’s arcade beat-em-up video game Warriors of Fate / Tenchi wo Kurau 2: Sekiheki no Tatakai (”The Devouring of Heaven and Earth II: Battle of Red Cliffs”).

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China sends new naval fleet to Gulf of Aden for escort mission

China sends new naval fleet to Gulf of Aden for escort mission

The 35th fleet of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy on Tuesday (Apr 28) left the port city of Zhoushan in East China’s Zhejiang province for the Gulf of Aden and waters off Somalia to escort civilian ships.

Composed of the guided-missile destroyer Taiyuan, the missile frigate Jingzhou and the supply ship Chaohu, the fleet has more than 690 officers and soldiers, dozens of special…

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