Although Leshan Giant Buddha has always enjoyed its peak incense and people come and go, it is puzzling that there have been phenomena of "closing your eyes and crying" and "Buddha's light turning into illusion" here, which has cast a mysterious veil on the giant Buddha. What's going on here?
It turns out that the Buddha statue of Leshan Giant Buddha is carved with a pair of big eyes. However, according to relevant records, many people have seen Leshan Giant Buddha "close their eyes and shed tears". What is even more incredible is that whenever Leshan Giant Buddha "closes his eyes and tears", there must be a disaster that year.
Not to mention whether the giant Buddha's "eyes closed and tears shed" is directly related to the disaster, but in reality, such a scene has really appeared, and many people have witnessed the "eyes closed and tears shed" of Leshan Giant Buddha.
1962, due to natural and man-made disasters, the whole country suffered a once-in-a-century famine, which was "terrible" for a time. At this time, everyone was surprised to find that Leshan Giant Buddha actually closed his eyes, and even a series of "tears" appeared in the corners of the Buddha's eyes.
For the emergence of this "magical phenomenon", China people who have been deeply influenced by Buddhism for thousands of years naturally understand it as the Buddha's pity for the refugees suffering from famine all over the world, leaving bitter "tears".
It's not over yet. By 1963, the famine has been greatly alleviated under the vigorous governance of our government. At this time, when people came to visit Leshan Giant Buddha, they miraculously found that the giant Buddha "opened" his eyes again.
Later 1976, just when people thought that the giant Buddha "closed his eyes and shed tears" was an accident, it coincided with the once-in-a-century Tangshan earthquake, which caused numerous casualties. This series of bad news plunged the whole country into grief.
At this time, people are once again surprised to find that Leshan Giant Buddha has changed again. Although I didn't "close my eyes and shed tears" like last time, it is not difficult to see that the Buddha statue has changed its calm and serene manner, but its face is angry.
This reminds people of the tragedies that happened in China at that time. People think that the giant Buddha has appeared again and feel "sad and angry" about natural and man-made disasters.
Later, in 1994, the giant Buddha was once again found to "close his eyes and shed tears"; In 200 1 year, colorful Buddha lights appeared on the top of the giant Buddha, and the Buddha statue was even more "radiant". At this time, China joined the World Trade Organization for the first time, and Beijing's successful bid for the Olympic Games made people more convinced of the emergence of the Giant Buddha.
Then, will this Leshan Giant Buddha really feel the sufferings of the world, the prosperity of the country and the people? If not, then why is there such an amazing phenomenon?
It turned out that the chief culprit that caused Leshan Giant Buddha to "close his eyes and cry" was acid rain. First of all, what is acid rain? Acid rain is a kind of pollution gas produced by human beings, such as factory exhaust and automobile exhaust, which rises into the sky and merges with water vapor in the sky to form sulfuric acid or nitric acid liquid. When these liquids return to the ground in the form of rain, it is what we call "acid rain".
Secondly, how did acid rain cause Leshan Giant Buddha to "close his eyes and cry"? First of all, we should understand that the main components of acid rain (sulfuric acid and nitric acid) are corrosive and can make the surface of non-metallic building materials dissolve, blacken or even fall off.
1962 famine coincided with the "steelmaking" period in China a few years ago. At that time, people had no awareness of environmental protection. After a large amount of waste gas from steelmaking and ironmaking entered the sky, acid rain began to fall, causing the skin of Buddha's eyes to fall off, thus forming the phenomenon of "closing eyes" that people saw.
The "tears" on the Buddha statue are the traces washed by raindrops. In addition, in 1963, the local government also found that the "eyes" of the Buddha statue were corroded by acid rain, so it organized personnel to repair the Buddha statue. This is why people suddenly found the Buddha's eyes open at 1963.
After that, several times of "opening eyes and closing eyes" and "showing angry faces" were mostly caused by the above reasons. The "Buddha's Light" incident on 200 1 is due to the diffraction and diffuse reflection between sunlight and clouds, and has nothing to do with the "manifestation" of the Buddha statue.
In today's highly developed science and technology, most unexplained events can be explained scientifically and reasonably, and so can the Buddha's eyes close and tears show his light. Therefore, we should believe in science and apply it in our lives.