Illustration:
ill. 4.16
Date:
2008
Genre:
logo, website logo
Material:
internet file, black-and-white; original source: website logo, black-and-white
Source:
DACHS 2008 Foolish Old Man, Music Club Beijing, section 'About Us', Heidelberg catalogue entry
Courtesy:
Yugong Yishan
Inscription:
愚公移山
Keywords:
Mao´s words, Foolish Old Man, Lao Sanpian, Three Constantly Read Articles, Three Old Articles, logo, everyday life, contemporary China

Logo of a Beijing Rock Bar "The Foolish Old Man moving the Mountains" (Huibiao: Yu gong yi shan 会标: 愚公移山)

A trendy music bar in Beijing that opened in 2004 takes its name and logo from the story, showing a man chipping away at the characters for the Foolish Old Man who Moved Mountains 愚公移山 in huge stone characters, but nowhere in the bar’s self-description does either Mao or the Liezi feature prominently. All the bar says (incorrectly in the English version) about its own name is that “Yugong Yishan is a Chinese proverb about a foolish man who wants to remove a mountain” (DACHS 2008 Foolish Old Man, Music Club Beijing, section “About Us”).