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Jade Buddha Palace in Anshan Podcast

America's second largest city----LA

    Los Angeles is located in southwestern U.S. West Coast, California, is America's second largest city, after New York. Los Angeles was founded on September 4, 1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence. In 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles is a global city, with strengths in business, international trade, entertainment, culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine and research and has been ranked sixth in the Global Cities Index and 9th Global Economic Power Index.

    Movies, television, music forms the basis of international reputation and global status of Los Angeles, located on the world-famous Hollywood city. 7036 Mulholland Drive，Los Angeles，CA 90068 is the classic look of the Hollywood sign, but also the free position.

    If you like to watch basketball, Los Angeles is a good choice. It has a very famous two NBA teams. One is Los Angeles Lakers and other one is Los Angeles Clippers. You will have the opportunity to see the famous stars Kobe Bean Bryant, Chris Paul, and Blake Austin Griffin.

    Universal Studios Hollywood is a movie studio and theme park in the unincorporated Universal City community of Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is one of the oldest and most famous Hollywood movie studios still in use. Its official marketing headline is "The Entertainment Capital of LA", though during the summer it is often advertised as "The Coolest Place in LA." It was initially created to offer tours of the real Universal Studios soundstages and sets. It is the first of many full-fledged Universal Studios Theme Parks located across the world.

    Next time, I will continue to introduce famous locations in Los Angeles.

Jade Buddha Palace in Anshan

    In China, most of people believe in Buddhism because Buddhism allows people to perform good deeds. Chinese people believe that goodness is a virtue. People were affected by Buddhist culture.
    Anshan Jade Buddha Palace is the first national AAAA level scenic spots - Buddha Garden Scenic Area, located in the eastern part of downtown Anshan City, Liaoning Province. It covers an area of ​​100,000 square meters, surrounded by mountains, facing the water, perched beautiful Dongshan Scenic Area.

    The Nature-made face of the jade Buddha is amazing. when the “king” of jade stones was discovered, it was wrapped by a layer of ferruginous rock, and it was hard to distinguish its real quality as a beautiful piece of jade. After the artisans tore the outside rock away, they were astonished to find that the “king” was a piece of colorful jade containing 7 colors—yellow, white, black, blue, green, light green, and dark green. Between two color zones, some divisions are quite distinctive, while some are of miscellaneous colors and hard to tell. To make a face of Buddha out of such a material was a difficult task—if the face of Buddha was of miscellaneous colors, it would be a blasphemy. However, it seemed to those worrying artisans that there was no other way around but working in accordance with the already finished design. when the project was finished, the face of Buddha happened to be on a section of pure dark green jade and the hair edge on its forehead was right on a dark yellow section, which composed quite a colorful, artistic contrast on Buddha’s face,  so people call the process, “Nature makes the face of Buddha.”