Found the earliest version of Chongqing Department

1500 years ago, the Goddess of Mercy statue look like? Answer: kindly face, clean man named modified image.

unearthed in 4 years no one has recognized

yesterday Tongliang Lu Feng Lu Feng Temple in the town's concubine in a locked, dedicated to respect more than a dozen large and small Bodhisattva. Rightmost a Buddha sculpture in the round, about 1 m high, man image, round face,tods handbags, plate with hair, kindly face, right hand holding a fan-shaped leaves, the left hand flat, the left seat has a length of about 20 cm convex carved animals.
69 years old Xucheng Lin Monastery is a companion cultural obligation to protect the pensions team leader. Xu Jinglei said about the end of 2005, local villagers for maintenance of Lu Feng Temple, turning the main hall of the former fort-like ridge dug when the original temple, the Buddha statues excavated from the ground, the basic integrity, yellow, red sand and gravel by the local common carved. Buddha placed about two months, a pilgrims out of the 100 yuan of money, brought in craftsmen to make the statues damaged at the cement, then painting and finally a layer of bronze powder brush. Later, the Buddha statues by several bouncers moved to the temple dedicated to a concubine. So far, local villagers still do not know is the story behind the statue.
earliest Guanyin statue

last November, Lu Feng Town, the third national survey on cultural relics staff reported this to the county Buddha statue sculpture in the round. Heritage experts to the scene to look, ecstatic - this is the most likely early Guanyin statues.
multi-block based on the existing stone temple inscription records, Lu Feng LIANG Wu Temple built in the Northern and Southern Dynasties Chase the first year has been 1,500 years of history. Associate Tongliang Liu Hua Wen steel tubes, said Lu Feng first temple in East Temple have known, until the liberation of all incense thrive.
Liu Hua Steel said that the statue statues below Xu Mizuo,polo ralph lauren, dressed in robes, body prayer support, long and large ear lobes. Tongliang County, describes a companion after the completion of the permanent temple there dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy main hall, there is enshrined in the Hall of Heavenly Kings Lingguan Buddha. Therefore, the experts initially determined, the main hall unearthed before the Department of the Goddess of Mercy statue statues statues.
why other Guanyin statues are women? Chinese Academy of Social Sciences researcher at the Institute of Archaeology Professor Yang Hong explained that the Han Dynasty about Buddhism introduced into China before the Tang Dynasty, Guanyin Bodhisattva is the male figures.
Liu Hua Gang said that previously identified male domestic Goddess of Mercy statue, the time is not earlier than the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Thus, the basic can be concluded that Tongliang The statue Guanyin statue is one of the earliest of the Goddess of Mercy statue.
the civil war to be buried in soil

Xucheng Lin said, the construction of this statue Guanyin statues excavated in addition, still more than 10 meters away from the place dug up a Lingguan Bodhisattva.
Why Lingguan Bodhisattva Guanyin statues and buried into the ground? Liu Hua Gang said, according to Tongliang County records, the late Ming, Wang Chang Hsien-chung eight downtown Sichuan, Lu Feng Temple suffered the catastrophe, a radius of hundreds of acres were burned most of the temple. Lu Feng Kuan Yin Temple statues, Bodhisattva Lingguan and a stupa built in the Tang Dynasty, is the loss of trail since then. 400 years, the family has been trying to find a local History to no avail.
heritage experts and subsequently in a monastery near the permanent companion found a corner of the disc engraved with fine Yunlei Wen. Heritage expert research concluded that,tods mens boots, this disc is collapsed stupa at the top of a component.