芝加哥数百人合力齐推110吨云门要左移7英寸：社交号召成真 「豆子」纹丝不动
11月8日（周日）下午，在位于美国伊利诺伊州库克县芝加哥市千禧公园（Millennium Park）的地标雕塑云门（Cloud Gate）前，数百名年轻人响应社交平台上的号召同时伸手发力，要把这座重110吨、昵称「豆子」（The Bean）的雕塑向左推动7英寸。结果没有悬念：云门纹丝不动，这场认真执行的玩笑却成了当天芝加哥最热闹的街头场面。
据活动组织页Partiful的页面，这场活动定于11月8日中午12时30分在云门所在地、东兰道夫街201号（201 E Randolph St）集合，页面上有176人标记参加。组织页给出的理由本身就是玩笑口吻：传言说有一个人被困在「豆子」里面，雕塑右侧下方可能有一扇暗门，只要把雕塑左移约7英寸，就能打开暗门、给里面的人送去物资。社交平台上流传的纸质传单写得更具体：把「豆子」左移7英寸，第一次齐推定在11月8日下午12时47分。
据芝加哥WBBM新闻广播电台（NewsRadio 105.9 WBBM）11月8日晚的报道，社交平台发出号召后，数百名年轻人汇聚到千禧公园这座地标周围，数百只手同时按上云门。一名参加者对电台说，这关乎自由与自在的原则，是他非常珍视的东西，「推豆子也是我作为美国公民的权利之一」。报道同时确认，云门当然没有被真的推动。主持人Terry Keschner在段子结尾打趣：推完「豆子」之后人生还剩什么可做？把它再推回去。
CBS芝加哥台（CBS News Chicago）当天也以「移动豆子」（Move the Bean）为题发布了千禧公园现场画面，说明文字写道，活动在周日下午举行，目标就是把「豆子」向左移动7英寸。记录这场活动的Instagram帖文当天获得数万次点赞，评论区里不少人把人群齐推的画面与动画《海绵宝宝》里众人合力推动比奇堡的情节相提并论。
云门由艺术家Anish Kapoor设计，2004年至2006年间建成，2006年5月15日正式揭幕。雕塑由168块不锈钢板焊接而成，外表打磨得看不见接缝，高33英尺、长66英尺、宽42英尺，重110短吨，因形状像一颗豆子而得昵称。它立在千禧公园内，是芝加哥最知名的公共艺术地标之一。
这次齐推玩笑的来历，是芝加哥流传已久的「豆中有人」梗。2025年Lollapalooza音乐节期间，一个自称「豆中人联盟」的团体曾在云门一带发传单，煞有介事地声称有人被困在雕塑里，要求把他放出来。据《芝加哥太阳时报》当时的报道，云门所在的第42选区区长Brendan Reilly的办公室为此收到约200封邮件和电话，其办公室回应说，可以确认没有人被困在云门里21年，还顺着玩笑说，这个人其实多年前就已经获释了。本周日的齐推，等于把这个老梗从传单搬成了数百人到场的线下行动。
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Hundreds Push Chicago's 110-Ton Bean Seven Inches to the Left: A Social-Media Call Becomes a Real Crowd and the Sculpture Does Not Budge
On Sunday afternoon, November 8, at Millennium Park in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, hundreds of young people answered a social-media call and put their hands to Cloud Gate, the 110-ton landmark sculpture nicknamed The Bean, to push it seven inches to the left. The outcome was never in doubt: the sculpture did not budge, but the dead-serious joke became the liveliest street scene in Chicago that day.
According to the event page on Partiful, the gathering was set for 12:30 p.m. on November 8 at the sculpture's address, 201 E Randolph St, with 176 people marked as going. The stated reason was itself a joke: rumor has it a man is trapped inside the Bean, new findings suggest there might be a latch door under its right side, and moving the sculpture about seven inches to the left might open that door and let people give the man inside some resources. A printed flyer circulating on social media was more specific: move the Bean seven inches to the left, with the first push at 12:47 p.m. on November 8.
According to a November 8 evening report by Chicago's WBBM NewsRadio 105.9, after social media put out the call, hundreds of young people converged on the Millennium Park landmark and hundreds of hands pressed against the Bean. One participant told the station it was about principles of freedom and liberty, things he stands for dearly, adding that pushing beans is part of his rights as an American citizen. The report confirmed that, of course, the Bean did not really get moved. Host Terry Keschner closed the segment with a joke: what do you do with the rest of your life after you push the Bean? You push it back.
CBS News Chicago also posted footage from Millennium Park under the title Move the Bean, with a description saying the event took place on Sunday afternoon and the goal was to move The Bean seven inches to the left. Instagram posts documenting the stunt drew tens of thousands of likes the same day, and commenters likened the crowd pushing in unison to the SpongeBob SquarePants scene in which the residents of Bikini Bottom try to push their town.
Cloud Gate was designed by artist Anish Kapoor, built between 2004 and 2006 and formally dedicated on May 15, 2006. Made of 168 stainless-steel plates welded together and polished until the seams disappeared, it stands 33 feet high, 66 feet long and 42 feet wide, weighs 110 short tons, and earned its nickname from its bean-like shape. It stands in Millennium Park and is one of Chicago's best-known pieces of public art.
The push grew out of the long-running man in the Bean joke in Chicago. During the 2025 Lollapalooza festival, a group calling itself the Man in Bean Coalition handed out flyers near Cloud Gate claiming, in mock earnest, that a man was trapped inside the sculpture and demanding his release. According to the Chicago Sun-Times at the time, the office of Alderman Brendan Reilly, whose 42nd Ward includes the sculpture, received about 200 emails and phone calls about it, and replied that it was happy to confirm no man had been trapped inside Cloud Gate for 21 years, adding, in the spirit of the joke, that the man had in fact been freed years ago. Sunday's push turned that old gag from a flyer into an in-person gathering of hundreds.
Related: Chicago's 113th City Christmas Tree Lights November 20 at Millennium Park, Free with Fireworks
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图片来源：图：芝加哥千禧公园云门（Cloud Gate）与周围游客的资料图（Eric Esma摄，Pexels免费图库），非当日齐推现场画面。/ File photo of Cloud Gate (The Bean) and visitors at Millennium Park in Chicago (by Eric Esma, via Pexels); not a photo from the push event.
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