The water level drops Sichuan Renshou Heilongtan Reservoir, a 16 -meter -high Buddha in the Ming Dynasty, reappeared again

Cover reporter Li Qing, Chen Yuanyang Wang Yuexin

Recently, due to high temperature weather, many large lakes have dropped rapidly, and some cultural relics hidden under the water have also appeared with the water level. This includes a Ming Dynasty sitting Buddha in Heilong Beach, Renshou County, Meishan City, Sichuan Province.

On August 26, cover reporters learned from the Cultural Relics Department of Meishan City that due to the decline in water levels, this Great Buddha has once again exposed more than half of the body since 2020.

According to the information of the cultural relics department of Meishan City, this Buddha who respects the newly exposed water, named Sixin Village Qianfuyan cliffs, is a city -level cultural relics protection unit. It was built in the Ming Dynasty. It was the image of Maitreya, with a height of 16 meters, a shoulder width of 7.2 meters, high relief, wide clothes, and right -handed priced beads to rest on the knees.

The relevant person in charge of the Cultural Relics Department of Meishan City said that the Great Buddha was discovered and recorded in the "Sanpu" in the cultural relics department. Related information records that, in addition to this Ming Dynasty Buddha, there are more than 30 caves that have lived in the Han Dynasty cliffs and the cliff stone carvings of the Tang Dynasty, as well as the Tang Dynasty cliff stone carvings.

Why is there such a stone carving here? The staff of the Cultural Relics Department of Meishan City said that the ancient stone carvings were repeatedly excavated in the main roads of transportation. In the past, the main ways of Chengdu and other places to Renshou and other places. Essence

Cover reporters learned that the original Buddha was all visible on the cliff. In the 1970s, the head of the Buddha was damaged. Later, because of the construction of the Heilongtan Reservoir, the Great Buddha and the surrounding grottoes were drowned under the thousand hectares of the blue waves. The Great Buddha head has been on the water for a long time, but it is full of dense plants. In recent years, when the water level of the reservoir has declined, the Great Buddha occasionally exposed the water. In 2020, the Big Buddha's body had disappeared due to the water level, and all of them had exposed the water. This year, the high temperature continued, the water level decreased, and most of the Buddha's body exposed the water.

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