The Fuwa which means "good luck dolls" in Chinese are the official mascots for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. The cute Fuwa group consists of five members according to the traditional five elements: Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini. Each of the five names is designed to look like a plausible name for a small child, while also achieving a more complex task: when the first syllable of each name is put together, it sounds nearly identical to the phrase "北京欢迎你 Běijīng huānyíng nǐ" which means "Beijing welcomes you".
Two of the five mascots represent members of endangered species – Jingjing the giant panda and Yingying the Tibetan antelope. The other two, Huanhuan and Nini, represent the Olympic flame and the swallow respectively. Each of the five figures also embodies the color of one of the five Olympic rings-wiki
BeiBie which is currently available for download represents a fish. This model has five pages of parts. The other four papercrafts will be available on a monthly basis. I'll let you know when they're available.
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