Some kept their Lennon Walls but replaced the messages with empty post-it notes in order to keep the spirit alive without breaching the law. from the musical Les Miserables and John Lennon's Imagine.Lyrics from the songs have been painted on banners strung across buildings and bridges.Meanwhile China's state news agency Xinhua.Images of Hong Kong's vilified leader CY Leung as a devil and a vampire have appeared both on the internet and in the streets.One cartoon showed the leader with a baby's dummy and the slogan "Good baby", AFP news agency reports, in reference to Mr Leung being considered Beijing's stooge.A stuffed toy wolf stocked by Swedish furniture giant Ikea has also become an unlikely symbol of the protest.The character is called Lufsig in Hong Kong - but its Chinese name sounds similar to a Cantonese profanity.Critics have long nicknamed Mr Leung "the wolf".In their calls for him to step down, Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists mockingly call Mr Leung "689".It refers to his backing by Beijing and the number of votes he received from China's electoral committee in 2012.Other figures used by demonstrators include 926, which refers to 26 September when the street protests kicked off, and 8964, the date of the Tiananmen crackdown.Commentators say numbers are useful political shorthand in Hong Kong and mainland China, where critics complain of limits placed on free speech.Senate leader Mitch McConnell says he will push ahead within hours of Supreme Court justice's death.What happens to your body in extreme heat?Media playback is unsupported on your device,Umbrellas have been used to protect against sunshine, rain and tear gas,Protesters have attached yellow ribbons to the barriers fences of government offices,Protest leader Joshua Wong (centre) has become a key figure in the demonstrations,Umbrellas have become one of the unofficial icons of the movement,A vampire is just one of the negative ways CY Leung has been portrayed,The number 689 appears widely at the protests,https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-29473974,one of the unofficial icons of the movement,Under a Vast Sky by Canto-rock band Beyond,showing what it called a "worried uncle" tearfully singing a song.Read about our approach to external linking. One of the most distinctive images of Mao Zedong has him gripping a,But the biggest questions revolve around the person most likely to make decisions about Hong Kong, President Xi Jinping, who won plaudits for a common-man touch long considered unbecoming of a Chinese state leader: holding aloft,Copyright ©2020 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. "The umbrella has been transformed from a normal everyday object to a symbol of defiance, a symbol of resistance," Mr Wong told the BBC.Demonstrators have been indulging in mass sing-along sessions in the streets, with a Cantonese hit from the 1990s becoming a popular anthem.Many protesters are too young to remember its release in 1993.But Mike Cheung said the song remained popular because it had taken on a special significance. Protesters create posters to promote upcoming protests and rallies that sometimes serve as subversive criticism of the police, the government, and others. Main image: Pro-democracy posters and slogans on an advertising board after protests in Hong Kong. Despite this, marks of the protests remained largely visible and indelible. 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This includes the phrase "give me liberty or give me death".Counter-protesters and pro-Beijing activists have widely circulated the slogan "I support Hong Kong police, you can hit me now" (Chinese:Protesters create posters to promote upcoming protests and rallies that sometimes serve as subversive criticism of the police, the government, and others.