"香港的大黃鴨出現中國山寨版"

人民日報一篇社論批評山寨填充鴨。

當一隻巨大的填充橡皮鴨上個月出現在香港的維多利亞港時，吸引了中國許多人的關注。現在看來，一些城市的建商看香港的黃鴨不高興，開始製造16.5公尺高，由荷蘭藝術家佛羅倫丁霍夫曼所創造的黃鴨的複製版。橡皮鴨現在出現在中國各地，而人民日報抨擊了這些仿冒品。

該報一篇社論說，原始黃鴨創作是「人性共享文化、童年記憶、純粹藝術和反商業化」的一部分。該社論繼續批評複製品「會破壞我們的創意和未來，最後會使得人們失去想像力。越多的黃鴨出現，就越偏離霍夫曼的反商業化精神，讓我們薄弱的創造力越來越明顯。」

不過編輯的厭惡可能不夠強烈，無法阻止填充橡皮鴨的需求。KK Inflatable這家公司已經在購物網站淘寶上販賣該物品。相對較小一點的2公尺黃鴨要價2,800人民幣（460元美金），大一點的尺寸，20公尺高的鴨子，定價則為149,800人民幣。

(Life) Hong Kongs Duck Is Copied in China

An editorial in the Peoples Daily condemned the fake inflatables.

When a huge, inflatable rubber duck appeared in Hong Kongs Victoria Harbor last month, it attracted a huge amount of interest around China. Now, it seems that developers in some cities are not content with looking at Hong Kongs duck, and have made copies of the 16.5-meter-tall work by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman. Rubber ducks are now appearing all over China, and the Peoples Daily has attacked the imitations.

An editorial in the paper described the original work as being part of humanitys shared culture and childhood memories, pure art and anti-commercialization. The piece went on to say that the replicas will ruin our creativity and our future and lead to the loss of imagination eventuallyK. The more yellow ducks there are, the further we are from Hofmans anti-commercialization spirit, and the more obvious is our weak creativity.

The editors disgust may not be strong enough to stop the demand in inflatable rubber ducks, though. One firm, KK Inflatable, is already selling the items on shopping website Taobao. A relatively small two-meter duck costs 2,800 yuan (US$460), while the biggest size, a 20-meter-high bird, is priced at 149,800 yuan.

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