Xinchang County ( Chinese : 新昌县 ; pinyin : Xīnchāng Xiàn ) is a county in the east-central part of Zhejiang province, administratively under the municipal government of Shaoxing . 430,000 people live in Xinchang.
4-600: Subdistricts: Towns: Townships: The town of Ru'ao ( 儒岙 ) became synonymous with poison. The factories using industrial gelatin to make pills were closed soon after CCTV reported the scandal on April 15, 2012. A third of Ruao's 30,000 population is employed in the capsule industry. Xinchang is home to the Dafo Temple ( 大佛寺 ). This Zhejiang province location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dafo Temple (Xinchang) The Dafo Temple ( Chinese : 大佛寺 ; pinyin : Dàfó Sì )
8-481: Is 1.5 meters and ears are 2.7 meters in size. It is believed that the statue is about 1,600 years old from the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420) and is around the same time that Buddhism began spreading from India to China. In the surrounding area is a grotto which is considered amongst China's earliest, and where a number of Buddha statues are to be found, including a reclining Buddha, a waterfall and
12-609: Is a famous Buddhist temple in Zhejiang and has a long history of more than 1600 years. This Temple is the symbol of the Xinchang County and it attracts tens of thousands of visitors every year. Recently, the temple and its surroundings have been used as a location for movies and filming, because of its natural environment. During the Cultural Revolution , locals tactfully covered the giant Buddha statues in
16-619: The temple with pictures of Mao Zedong that managed to prevent the fanatic red guards from destroying the sacred statues, which they were inspired to do under the radical directive of "destroying all old traditions". Dafo Temple itself is constructed with five levels with several halls like the Heavenly King Hall, the Dafo (Big Buddha) Hall and the Scripture Hall. The Big Buddha is almost 15 meters in height, its nose alone
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