5) Emperors Yan and Huang – Henan, China
This statue depicting two of the first Chinese emperors, Yan and Huang, took 20 years to build and is the smallest of today’s statues. It still bangs in at 106 metres though, so you couldn’t fit it in the boot of your Prius. Yan Di and Huang Di are thought of as the ancestors of the Chinese empire and the statue is supposed to stand for politics and economy.
Yan was in power around 4000 years ago so he’s one of those semi-mythical kinds of characters. There are no written records from that far back in China, at that stage they were keeping records by tying knots in bits of string would you believe.
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