青狮白象锁大江

两江新区龙兴园区御临河畔,一青狮一白象,两尊巨型雕塑隔河相望,与御临河两岸的景观长廊交相辉映,成为龙兴园区一道亮丽的风景线。这两件作品出自重庆美术馆专职油画家、雕塑家傅榆翔之手,创作灵感源自"青狮白象锁大江"的典故——乾隆年间,重庆经济兴旺、文化繁荣,为防止好风水外流,长江两岸分别建有青狮、白象石像,寓意牢牢"锁"住财富。

Green Lion and White Elephant Locking the Great River

Right on the banks of the Yulin River in Longxing Park,Liangjiang New Area,there is a green lion and a white elephant,sitting face to face with each other across the river,forming a beautiful scenery line in Longxing Park together with the landscape corridor on both sides of the river.The two works were created by Fu Yuxiang,a full-time oil painter and sculptor of Chongqing Art Museum,inspired by the allusion of"Green Lion and White Elephant Locking the Great River",which holds that Chongqing saw a period of great abundance and prosperity economically and culturally during the reign of Emperor Qianlong.To prevent the outflow of good fortune,the statues of a green lion and white elephant were built on both sides of the Yangtze River respectively,implying that wealth was firmly"locked".