四川旅游景點介紹之樂山大佛

四川旅游景點介紹之樂山大佛Theconfluence(匯合處）ofthreeriversLookingsolemn（莊嚴的）andstately,theBuddhais71metershigh.Hisshouldersare28meterswide,head14.7meterslongand10metersbroad,withatotalof1,021chignons（假髻）ofhairclustered（聚合）onit.Eachchignonisasbigasaroundtable.Itsdrooping（下垂的）earis6.2meterslongandeacheyeis3.3meterswide.Itsmiddlefingeris8.3meterslong,andeachofitsbarefeet（光腳）is11meterslongand8.5meterswide,largeenoughformorethan100peopletositon.ThefounderoftheGiantBuddha

ItwastheideaofaChinesemonknamedHaitong,whohopedthattheBuddhawouldcalmtheturbulent（狂暴的）watersthatplagued（困擾）theshippingvesselstravelingdowntheriver.Whenfundingfortheprojectwasthreatened,heissaidtohavegougedout（挖出）hisowneyestoshowhispiety（虔誠）andsincerity.Themassiveconstructionprojectwasfinallycompletedbyhisdisciples（門徒）90yearslater.Thecharm（魅力）oftheBuddhaliesnotonlyinitssizebutalsoinitsarchitecturalartistry.Thereare1,021bunsintheBuddha‘scoiled（盤繞的）hair.Thesehavebeenskillfullyembeddedinthehead.Theskillissowonderfulthatthe1,021bunsseemintegral（完整的）tothewhole.Anotherarchitecturalhighlight（最精彩的）isthedrainagesystem（排水系統(tǒng)）.Thissystemismadeupofsomehiddengutters（水溝）andchannels,scattered（分散的）ontheheadandarms,behindtheearsandintheclothes.Thissystem,whichhelpsdisplace（轉移）rainwaterandkeeptheinner（內部）partdry,playsanimportantpartintheprotectionoftheBuddha.Thelargepairofears,eachsevenmeters(about23feet)long,ismadeofwoodandisdecorated（裝飾）bymud（泥土）onthesurface.Forcraftsmen（工藝人）ofthousandsofyearsago,itwasnoteasytofixthesetothestonehead.Jiuquplank（九曲棧道）Itisonlythewaytogosightseeingthegi