This public sculpture takes the form of a manhole cover embedded directly into Wangfujing Street.
Fully integrated with the street surface, the work draws from traditional Chinese visual motifs, featuring a raised dragon relief and engraved historical texts related to the site. It functions simultaneously as infrastructure, sculpture, and historical marker.
By occupying the lowest possible position within public space, the work deliberately rejects monumentality. History is encountered not through elevation or spectacle, but through everyday movement—discovered only when one looks down.
The sculpture reframes public art as something walked upon rather than looked up to, carrying memory quietly beneath the flow of the city.
这件公共雕塑采用井盖造型，直接嵌设于王府井大街路面。 作品与街面完全融为一体，设计取材于中国传统视觉纹样，表面饰有凸起的龙纹浮雕，还刻有与该地段相关的历史文字。它同时兼具市政设施、雕塑与历史标识三重属性。
这件作品刻意摒弃宏大纪念碑式的叙事，将自身置于公共空间里最低矮的位置。人们无需仰望宏伟景观，只需低头，在日常行走间便能邂逅历史。
这件雕塑重新定义了公共艺术：它不再是供人仰望的展品，而是任人踩踏的载体，于城市人潮之下，静静承载岁月记忆。