Baguashan

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View of the Bagua Shan

The Baguashan ( Chinese  八卦山 ) is a hill and a popular destination in the Taiwanese city of Changhua . Its most famous attraction is a walk-in statue, the Big Buddha .

Location and history

The 97 m high Baguashan is located in the east of Changhua, about 2 km from the city center. Bagua Street, where visitor parking spaces and sights are located, runs along its slope. Despite its relatively low altitude, Baguashan is a good vantage point, as its surroundings consist of flat land. The area is designed like a park and criss-crossed by hiking trails.

Due to its strategic location in the center of the western plain, the Baguashan has been the scene of military conflicts several times. During the Qing Dynasty , the area was a retreat for insurgents against Qing rule; in 1895, Taiwanese militants holed up here to resist the Japanese troops advancing at the beginning of the colonial era .

The name of the hill literally means "Mountain of Eight Trigrams ".

Attractions

The great buddha

The Big Buddha , the symbol of the city of Changhua, is the highest point of Baguashan. The 23 m high figure, which represents the Buddha Siddharta Gautama , sits on a 4 m high lotus flower on a foundation area of ​​694 m². The figure was erected with the help of donations from the population. The planning and work began in 1956, but were temporarily stopped due to accidents and natural disasters, so that the figure was not completed until 1966. The Big Buddha is mainly made of reinforced concrete. Its hollow interior is divided into six floors, which can be reached via a spiral staircase. On the ground floor there is a small temple, on the remaining floors the life of the Buddha is depicted in figures and pictures. The top floor offers a view of the surrounding area.

More Attractions

In the back of the Big Buddha there is a multi-storey Buddhist temple of the same name next to a pagoda . Other sights on the Baguashan include the Wudi Temple, a historical fountain called Hongmao Jing , a martyr's certificate for those who fell in the Army of the Republic of China and a memorial to the soldiers who died in the resistance against the Japanese in 1895.

gallery

  • The Big Buddha at night

  • The Temple of the Great Buddha

  • Archway to the memorial to the fallen in 1895

  • The martyr's shrine

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jiang Renyuan (蔣 任 袁); Zhou Guoping (周 國 屏): Yiwei kangri Bagua Shan zhanyi zhi xuni shijing乙未 抗日 八卦山 戰役 之 虛擬 實 境 , Changhua 2008.

Coordinates: 24 ° 5 '  N , 120 ° 33'  E