Fu Niu LeLe | |
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Mascot of the 2008 Summer Paralympics (Beijing) | |
Creator | Wu Guanying (吴冠英) |
Fu Niu Lele | |||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 福牛樂樂 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 福牛乐乐 | ||||||||
Literal meaning | lucky cattle happy-happy | ||||||||
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Fu Niu Lele (Chinese: 福牛乐乐; lit. 'lucky happy ox'[1]), was the mascot of the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.
The mascot, designed by Wu Guanying (吴冠英), professor at the Academy of Arts and Design at Tsinghua University,[2][3] was unveiled on September 6, 2006[4][5] at the foot of the Great Wall of China's Badaling.[6]
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."[6]