--- title: China: 'Trump Rooster' Statue Goes Up for Lunar New Year description: A giant rooster statue that resembles the U.S. President-elect is going to be part of New Year celebrations in Taiyuan, Shanxi province canonical: https://time.com/4619394/donald-trump-china-rooster-lunar-new-year-inflatable/ author: Kevin Lui article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-29T09:02:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:46.400Z og:title: Trump has Been Turned Into an Inflatable Rooster in China og:description: The designer says Trump's golden hair symbolizes "getting rich" og:url: https://time.com/4619394/donald-trump-china-rooster-lunar-new-year-inflatable/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta511c720c530656c/6988b423a988ca3c336ba88c/ap20096332434.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 'Trump-style' rooster figure welcomes Chinese New Year in Taiyuan og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump has Been Turned Into an Inflatable Rooster in China twitter:description: The designer says Trump's golden hair symbolizes "getting rich" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta511c720c530656c/6988b423a988ca3c336ba88c/ap20096332434.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Giant 'Trump Rooster' Is Going to Be Part of China's New Year Celebrations by [Kevin Lui](https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Dec 29, 2016 9:02 AM UTC  A visitor takes photos of a giant rooster figure with a Donald Trump hairstyle to welcome the upcoming Chinese Year of the Rooster in front of a shopping mall in Taiyuan, China, Dec. 24, 2016. A visitor takes photos of a giant rooster figure with a Donald Trump hairstyle to welcome the upcoming Chinese Year of the Rooster in front of a shopping mall in Taiyuan, China, Dec. 24, 2016.Yin Ming—Imaginechina by [Kevin Lui](https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Dec 29, 2016 9:02 AM UTC Donald Trump will be ringing in the Lunar New Year in China on Jan. 28, 2017. Not in person, though — but rather in the form of his likeness, interpreted as a cartoon rooster statue in northern China. The statue sprang up earlier this week outside a shopping mall in the city of Taiyuan, Shanxi province, [according](http://trad.cn.rfi.fr/中國/20161228-迎新春：卡通版美國待任總統“特朗普雞”雕塑顯身大陸) to Radio France Internationale’s Chinese-language division. From that [hairstyle](http://time.com/3923297/donald-trump-hair-secret/) to the hand gestures (“O.K.” on the left, an index finger pointing outward on the right), as well as the facial expression, there can be no mistake that this cartoonified chicken takes its inspiration from the incoming U.S. President, who will take office on Jan. 20\. That’s just eight days before the newest Year of the Rooster starts, according to the rotating 12-animal Chinese zodiac denotation. According to the _South China Morning Post_, citing a Chinese social-media news outlet, the designer says the statue’s egglike shape and the golden Trumpian hairstyle carry the meaning of “getting rich.” Photos of the sculpture have been widely circulated in China, even inspiring a flood of miniature and inflatable imitations on [Taobao](http://time.com/4502415/taobao-china-ebay-weirdest-strangest-items/), the country’s equivalent of eBay, bringing some comic relief to the [tough back-and-forth](http://time.com/4603128/china-taiwan-russia-vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-donald-trump-realpolitik/) between Beijing and the President-elect. “It is the Year of \[the\] Rooster, and Trump is about to take office,” one such Taobao vendor told the _Post_. “We have named it the Inflatable Trump Rooster.” The [Lunar New Year](http://time.com/4211680/chinese-new-year-lunar-monkey/) is observed across East Asia, as well as by the Chinese diaspora worldwide. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4619394/donald-trump-china-rooster-lunar-new-year-inflatable/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4619394/donald-trump-china-rooster-lunar-new-year-inflatable/"},"headline":"This Giant 'Trump Rooster' Is Going to Be Part of China's New Year Celebrations","datePublished":"2016-12-29T09:02:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:46.400Z","description":"The designer says Trump's golden hair symbolizes \"getting rich\"","url":"https://time.com/4619394/donald-trump-china-rooster-lunar-new-year-inflatable/","keywords":["Newsfeed","China","World","chinese new year","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta511c720c530656c/6988b423a988ca3c336ba88c/ap20096332434.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kevin Lui","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta511c720c530656c/6988b423a988ca3c336ba88c/ap20096332434.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"'Trump-style' rooster figure welcomes Chinese New Year in Taiyuan","caption":"'Trump-style' rooster figure welcomes Chinese New Year in Taiyuan","creditText":"Yin Ming—Imaginechina","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4619394/donald-trump-china-rooster-lunar-new-year-inflatable/","name":"This Giant 'Trump Rooster' Is Going to Be Part of China's New Year Celebrations"}}]}] ```