In 1962, the local government of Leshan, Sichuan began the protective repair of the Leshan Buddha. During this repair, a closed hole was found at the heart of the Buddha.

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1962, the local government of Leshan, Sichuan began the protective repair of Leshan Giant Buddha . During this repair, a closed hole was found at the heart of Giant Buddha .

This unexpected discovery shocked the staff present. They rubbed their eyes. Could this be the legendary "treasure hole"? Are there any rare treasures in the cave?

In addition to being shocked, the mysterious Leshan Giant Buddha once again sparked heated discussions among people.

Many people couldn't help but focus on what kind of difficult and tortuous road has it gone through to stand so proudly in the world and amazed thousands of years of time?

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Leshan Giant Buddha is also known as Lingyun Buddha . It is located next to Lingyun Temple and complements Lingyun Temple.

In addition, the word Lingyun also complements the 71-meter tall and magnificent beauty of Leshan Giant Buddha.

Such a spectacular stone statue was excavated in 713 AD and completed in 803 AD. It took ninety years to go and is the crystallization of three generations of hard work.

It is said that there is an old monk named Haitong who became a monk at the age of 12 and has traveled to many famous mountains and rivers.

When he first passed by Lingyun Mountain , he fell in love with the quiet environment here and felt it was suitable for practice. So Haitong planned to build a house on Lingyun Mountain for a long time.

However, Lingyun Mountain is located at the intersection of the three rivers, with heavy waves and rapid waters, and tragedies of ships and people often occur. Haitong looked at the rolling rapids at the foot of the mountain and the instantly swallowed ships, and felt heartbroken.

Buddhism says that Maitreya is the messenger of happiness and light, and Maitreya will be prosperous and peaceful when it is born.

Haitong wants to carve a Buddha statue of Maitreya Buddha on the rocks of Lingyun Mountain, and want to rely on the Buddha's boundless and huge magic power.

Haitong is an action faction. With an idea, the preliminary preparations will be launched immediately.

However, the ideas are full and the money is skinny.

If you want to create the towering and majestic image of Leshan Buddha conceived by Haitong, you need astronomical human and wealth support.

The emperor lives up to the hard work. With the efforts of Haitong, the start-up funds have finally been collected, and this huge and powerful project was started in 713.

From that day on, thousands of people put on the Lingyun Mountain, risking their lives, and began to hammer and hit the stone walls of Lingyun Mountain with hammers, working from sunrise and resting from sunset.

After several years, when the Leshan Giant Buddha finally built it to his shoulders, the monk Haitong unfortunately died due to years of hard work.

Haitong's disciples were unwilling to give up and volunteered to continue the unfinished great cause of the master and led everyone to continue to build the Buddha.

However, with the progress of the project, there is not much of the funds accumulated before.

Although the apprentices also raised the money everywhere, they were still a drop in the bucket and the construction of the Leshan Giant Buddha was forced to be interrupted.

Later, , who was the governor of Xichuan, Jiannan, then came to Lingyun Mountain.

He was moved by the desire to benefit the people of the sea, so he simply donated all his money and organized craftsmen to continue to build the Buddha.

Unfortunately, a person's financial resources are limited after all. When the Leshan Giant Buddha finally built it to his knees, relying solely on his salary, the construction of the Giant Buddha was stopped.

Unexpectedly, just when Zhang Qiu Jianqiong could not hold on, the court learned that the construction of the Buddha had been stagnant, so it even allocated a special fund to provide assistance.

At this time, the governor of Jiannan Xichuan had been replaced with Wei Gao . He was moved by the efforts of hundreds of people in the past decades and took the initiative to ask the emperor to allow him to continue building the Buddha.

Just like this, after another forty years, in 803 AD, the Leshan Giant Buddha, which spanned three generations of , Xuanzong, Daizong, and Dezong, and went through 90 spring, autumn, cold and heat.

This majestic Maitreya Buddha stands at the confluence of the Three Rivers, protecting the happiness and tranquility of the people on the shore from now on.

It can be said that from the day when the Leshan Buddha was completed, there was a hole in the Buddha, and the legend of treasures in the cave has never stopped in the following thousand years.

Countless people risked their lives and searched for mysterious treasures on the huge Buddha through various means, but ended in failure without exception.

So, people can't help but be more curious, does the Leshan Giant Buddha have any treasure caves? If so, where is the treasure cave?

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It has to be said that the mysterious veil of Leshan Giant Buddha has become more and more heavy and more eye-catching after thousands of years of accumulation.

Those unknown legends and long-closed history have made the Leshan Giant Buddha never leave people's sight from beginning to end.

However, after more than a thousand years of wind and rain, the Leshan Giant Buddha Industry has gone through vicissitudes and has no longer restored its original appearance. Protective repair is imperative.

In 1962, the government decided to carry out a comprehensive repair of the Leshan Buddha. This time, a stone door appeared at the heart of the Buddha's chest.

The legend of the treasure cave has lasted for thousands of years, so the staff at the scene speculated that behind this stone gate might be the legendary treasure cave.

The excited staff immediately reported to the government, and experts from the archaeological community quickly formed an archaeological team to prepare to go to the treasure cave to find out.

However, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

When the excited archaeological team came to the stone gate of the heart of the Leshan Giant Buddha and excitedly wanted to see the stunning scene behind the door, the scene in the dark room disappointed them.

There is no so-called gold and silver treasure here. In the dark caves of , some worn scrap iron and lead in are scattered all over the ground.

Some experts also put forward different views, believing that it is likely that it was the waste left over from the rock excavation or the unused Buddha's wealth repair.

The purpose of storing these things in the dark room should be left to future generations for emergencies, and may be left to be used when repairing the Buddha in the future.

Whether this analysis is credible or not, archaeologists found that the stone tablet that was moved from elsewhere, covered with moss, serving as the gate of the dark room was more valuable than all the items in the dark room.

Researchers learned that this is the "Tianning Pavilion Chronicle Remaining Monument" from the Song Dynasty. The inscription records that the Leshan Giant Buddha was originally surrounded by a thirteen-story Nanmu large oak attic. However, in the late Ming Dynasty, it was destroyed by the chaotic war.

In addition, the inscription also records that in the Song Dynasty, the imperial court rebuilt this big Buddha pavilion, but time passed, and in the end, left only the lonely Leshan Buddha facing the world.

In fact, although there is no treasure in the treasure cave of Leshan Giant Buddha, the historical value and significance of Leshan Giant Buddha itself is enough to be proud and proud today.

In that era of backward technology, it was a feat for people to carve such a majestic Buddha.

During the carving process, they also thought of exquisite and secret ideas to protect the Buddha's body, which was enough to shock people's chins.

In addition to discovering a hidden cave in the heart of the Buddha, there is an unexpected passage behind the Buddha's ears, which connects with the cave and has no signs of being blocked.

It is a very clever and secret drainage system of , with scientific drainage, moisture isolation and ventilation functions.

It is precisely because of this meticulous drainage system that protects the Buddha's body and prevents the aggressive weathering of the Buddha from the big Buddha, that it perfectly explains the miracle of the Leshan Giant Buddha for thousands of years.

In this way, people will still ask, why does Leshan Giant Buddha close his eyes and shed what witnesses say when there are heavy rains, floods and other major disasters?

Is it really a disaster that the Buddha is compassionate and can’t bear to look at him?

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It is magical. After the completion of the magical Leshan Buddha, the torrent at the intersection of the three rivers began to become gentle, and the tragedy of ships and people being killed is becoming increasingly rare.

What is even more surprising is that in the years after completion, the Buddha will cry and close his eyes.

Many people say that the Leshan Giant Buddha has spirituality. The main reason for saying this is that the Buddha closed his eyes and cried four times in the past 60 years.

First of all, it was in 1962.

The three years of natural disasters that the older generation will never forget have caused my country's farmland to cut production on a large scale year by year. New China has encountered the most serious economic difficulties since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Therefore, the Buddha could not see the people suffering so much, so he chose to close his eyes.

In 1963, the disaster still did not improve. Many people died because they could not eat food. Those who survived had a period of hunger and hunger, which became a memory scar for a lifetime.

The Buddha was powerless to save the people, and closed his eyes and cried silently.

By 1976, Another sensational Tangshan earthquake plundered the lives of thousands of people, The Buddha complained about the unkindness of the sky and his face was angry, and also shed tears .

In the summer of 2000, a major shipwreck occurred in Sichuan, killing hundreds of people.

How could the Leshan Giant Buddha, who is also in Sichuan, turn a blind eye to the misfortune that happened at the door of his home, and how could he not cry sadly?

It is these coincidences, coupled with the original intention of building the Buddha, that makes people particularly believe that the Leshan Buddha has unique spirituality.

Is this really the case?

In fact, from a scientific perspective, the real reason why the Buddha shed tears comes from the destruction of nature by humans.

my country is the three major acid rain areas in the world. The Sichuan Basin where the Leshan Giant Buddha is located is located. Because the air humidity is relatively high throughout the year, the acid rain phenomenon is more serious.

After the substances in the acid rain settled on the surface of the Buddha, the color turned black, and the Buddha looked like he had closed his eyes; the next year, after the government carried out protective repairs on the Buddha, the black substance was removed, and the Buddha opened his eyes again.

As for crying, it is because the Buddha is eroded by acid rain and many cracks appear on the surface.

Under normal circumstances, after heavy rain, these water will flow out of the Buddha's own drainage system, but because of cracks, some water will flow out of the gap.

Some of the water flowing out happened to be in the eyes, so it looks like the Buddha is crying.

So it’s not that a major disaster occurred, the Buddha would cry, but those few times were coincidental. The disaster and heavy rain were combined together, and it was deliberately amplified by people, so there was such a rumor.

Today, Leshan Giant Buddha is not only a magnificent scenery, but also a rare cultural treasure left by his ancestors. In addition to , people marvel at the wisdom and perseverance of the ancients, is more about the inheritance of the spirit.

The construction of Leshan Buddha can be said to be a contribution to the present and future generations. looks up and can be seen vaguely, and the prosperous chapters of the Tang and Song dynasties were vaguely visible. Such a unique work has amazed later generations.

Today, the image of Maitreya Buddha who can accommodate his big belly and smile always has become a symbol, symbolizing the Chinese people's full food and clothing, and also symbolizing the prosperity of the great motherland.