6 Days The World Natural &Cultural Heritage Tour

Includes: Chengdu, Mt.Emei & Leshan Giant Buddha

    The Mount Emei-Leshan Giant Buddha Historic Scenic Area, situated in the Leshan Region, Sichuan Province, consists of two parts, Mount Emei and the Leshan Giant Buddha. In Chinese the name Emei is homonymous to moth brow, to suggest that the mountain is wriggling "like the head of a smaller strain of cicada named qin, and the brows of a moth". The phrase has its origin in The Book of Songs, the first Book of the Five Classics, 140~135B.C. The "brows" of a moth actually refers to its antennas, and the phrase was used later to describe the slenderness and beauty of women. The mountain range looks undulating; the rocks and vegetation seem arranged in infinite layers; they look irresistibly powerful due to the immense vastness in mass and dimension, majestic, beautiful, used to be reputed as " the great beauty of the world". The main peak Golden Summit is 3,099m in elevation. Already in the mid-first century A.D., the first Buddhist Temple Puguang Hall was built on the Golden Summit, and now Moth Brow is one of the four renowned Buddhist mountains in China. Other valuable relics here include Baoguo Temple at the foot of the mountain, first built in Ming Dynasty, where there is a giant porcelain buddha(1415 A.D.) and a red copper Huayuan Pagoda (mid 14th-mid 17th century ); and Qingyin Ge, situated at the foot of Niuxin Ling (Cattle Heart Peak), surrouded by mountains and streams, with overpass like clouds floating, a beautiful neat and elegant place to visit; in addition, the old monastery Hongchunping, where there is two-meter-high one-meter diameter thousand-Buddha lotus lantern; and Xixiang Chi. On the main peak Golden Summit is the Woyun Nunnery, outside of which is the Du-guang Tai (Light viewing Terrace), where tourists can watch the three spectacles of the Moth Brow, viz., the sunrise, the cloud ocean, and about 70-80 times each year, especially in winters, the Buddha's Aureole. The Leshan Giant Buddha is situated at the converging point of three river, the Min, Qingyi and Dadu. the Buddha was cut into a cliffside and took 90 years work(713-803 A.D.,in the Tang Dynasty). Measuring 71 meters, it is the tallest stone buddha in the world. The mount Emei- Leshan Giant Buddha was inlcluded in the list of "World Natural and Cultural Heritage" by UNESCO in 1997.