Tourism Resources in Nanya Town
The unique and well-known Nanya Buddhist Temple in Kaixian County is a must in Bayu, located in Nanya Town in the southwest of Kaixian County, and is a stone sculpture left over from Ningyuan period in the late Tang Dynasty. The giant Buddha in the temple stands on the mountain and is carved from rocks. The Buddha sat on the top of the rock, nodded with a smile and meditated cross-legged. It has become the second largest Buddha in Bashu after Leshan Giant Buddha, and now it is the largest Buddha in Chongqing municipality. It used to be the symbol of the opening of Chongqing TV weather forecast program.
Nanya Town is located at the junction of Kaixian County in Chongqing and Kaijiang County in Sichuan Province, 45 kilometers away from Kaixian County. North latitude 3 1 04' and east longitude 108 05'. The original temple, the Great Buddha Temple, was demolished in the early 1950s and used for other purposes. During the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, someone blew up the head of a giant Buddha with a diameter of more than one meter, leaving only the Buddha's body. At the beginning of 1997, the local authorities seized the opportunity of Chongqing to vigorously develop tourism resources, organized manpower to repair the giant Buddha, restored its original appearance, restored the main hall of the temple, and planted landscape trees around the Buddha statue. Now, the restoration of the reappeared giant Buddha has attracted an endless stream of tourists. During the period of 1999, the tourist area of the Great Buddha Temple received more than 80,000 Chinese and foreign tourists, and realized a tax profit of nearly one million yuan, making it a famous Buddhist holy place and tourist holy place in Bayu Prefecture.
The Great Buddha Temple is located in the north of the town. The Great Buddha Temple is divided into three upper halls and a lower theater, such as Daxiong Hall, Guanyin Pavilion and Three Temples. The giant Buddha is located in the center of the Hall of Ursa Major. The Buddha statue is huge, with a height of10.8m and a width of more than 6m. It holds huge beads in its palm, with rough carving, bright lines, kind expression and vivid image. The distance from the foot to the heart is 3 meters, which can accommodate an adult to sleep. Two earlobes and two shoulders, good-natured, sitting on the futon. The Buddha statue is completely carved on the whole cliff boulder, with exquisite craftsmanship and great momentum.
According to research, the Giant Buddha was built in the late Tang Dynasty, and a stonemason named Feng spent 43 years chiseling temples until his death. Then in North Jingdezhen for three years, a giant businessman named Li from Wanzhou brought gold to the South Cliff and asked craftsmen to build three halls, chiseling the statue of the giant Buddha away from the rock mass and gilding the Buddha statue; In the third year of Wanli in Ming Shenzong, Shan Haiming came to stay here, planted flowers and trees, and planted two osmanthus trees in front of the temple. Later, he traveled to Liangping Shuangguitang to settle down, and Shuangguitang became the founder of Southwest Buddhism. After the Six Dynasties and 954 years of continuous construction, the Great Buddha Temple has become a large-scale and well-known Buddhist resort in northeast Chongqing.
On the right side of the main hall, there is a Buddhist Scripture Building with tens of thousands of books. Among them, there are more than 0,000 volumes of classics 1000 mailed by the wise master 1995 to 1998 who was born in Zhonghe Town, Kaixian County and graduated from China Buddhist College, including extremely precious books such as Xuanzang, a famous monk in past dynasties, and Essentials of Buddhism. There are eighteen arhats in Guanyin Pavilion on the right outside the temple, with a height of 1.5 meters. The three temples on the left are used to shape the Three Saints of the West, and the Ear Tower respectively shapes the gods such as the God of Wealth, Wei Tuo and Gong Ling. Out of the temple gate and down the stairs, under the protection of two giant lions with Shi Bao in their mouths, two towering osmanthus trees propped up both sides of the fence, pregnant with a strong fragrance. This must be the osmanthus tree planted by the founder of Broken Mountain.
Combine the tourism resources, human landscape and natural landscape of Nanya, and at the same time develop the cultural relic Nanya Bridge Gallery with archaeological value, the legendary unique Eight Immortals Cave, dinosaur fossils that have been listed in the Three Gorges Cultural Relics Protection Area, and natural landscapes such as Sichuan main temple, White Rock Carving and Wubaiti Forest Park, actively shape the cultural landscape of the town, and integrate artificial buildings with the natural environment to complement each other.