China Floods Wash Feet of Buddha Statue for 1st Time in 70 Years
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Water is crashing on the feet of a 1,000-year-old giant Buddha sculpture in Southwest China for the first time in decades, illustrating the extent of the unprecedented floods along the nation’s longest river.
Video footage of flooding at the world’s largest stone Buddhist statue in Sichuan province was shared widely on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, with a hashtag related to the event amassing over 91 million clicks. This is the first time the 70-meter tall sculpture has had the river’s water touch its feet since 1949, local media reported, citing the scenic spot’s management committee.