Leshan

Leshan, formerly referred to as Jiading, is a prefecture-stage metropolis placed on the confluence of the Dadu and Min rivers in Sichuan Province, China. Leshan is placed at the southwestern fringe of the Red Basin in southern Sichuan, about 120 km from Chengdu. At the 2010 census, its populace turned into 3,235,759 whom 662,814 lived in the built-up area made from Shizhong district, as Wutongqiao and Jinkouhe districts are not conurbated yet. In 1996, the Mount Emei Scenic Area, such as the Leshan Giant Buddha, the largest stone-carved buddha within the world, which was d a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Next door to the Leshan Giant Buddha is the Oriental Buddha Park, a privately run cultural subject matter park, providing lots of reproductions of Buddha statues and Buddhist themed carvings. Mount Emei is positioned inside the county-degree town of Emeishan, which is below the executive jurisdiction of Leshan. The Leshan dialect, a part of the Southern linguistic machine, may be very one-of-a-kind from the dialects of other towns inside the province of Sichuan, which belong to the Northern gadget. Some researchers say the pronunciation of Leshan dialect represents an archaic shape of Chinese pronunciation. You can come here and explore this place.