Item Details :
Size : 11cm(L); 11cm(W); 12cm(H);
Material : Copper
Weigh : ~ 800gm

About the Laughing Buddha : -
Tatu Maitreya whole section of copper casting, holding prayer beads smug, symbolizing "wishful Jin Choi," smiling, Ci Xiangan music.

According to Buddhist prophecy, Maitreya is the Buddha Sakyamuni will inherit bit and become the future Buddha Buddha. Shape of the temple smiling fat Maitreya, is completely finished up, and the legend that he is one of the Five Fenghua, Zhejiang pregnant monk, Assignment of this, often begging alms bag back, and persuaded the people, called "bag monk" . Tanzhesi King Hall Anta, hanging there a couplet: "potbellied, let the world intolerable things; opening will laugh, laugh funny world of the people", very famous.
Legend bag monk, prompting Maitreya deeper folk; Cihui bag monk Yuan Ming, is a typicalrepresentative of Maitreya spirit. Maitreya statue still present folk monk body bag phase-oriented, and some more random bag monk, innocent, and some more Maitreya mercy and solemn.
Today, the Maitreya Buddha is still widely worshiped in the temple, the temple; while folk various businesses and stores, enshrined as enrichment Bodhisattva statue to Gaschromic Cheung whole bag monk modeling based. In order to resolve the world smiling infinite trouble to accommodate the world potbellied right and wrong, flat and others, is the true meaning of its light and doing things the Buddha is also based on the fundamental business .

Maitreya Buddha to Buddhists, the first Buddha, the Buddhist living in the days of the Tusita Liu Yu Temple, where the preaching, because the pre-Buddha mind he will do when the earth swells Doushuai Tianshou Ming Zhong, following The Buddha, so he was called up at the life of Buddha, that next life can substitute Buddha Buddha. Because he will certainly become a Buddha, is also known as Maitreya. 
      2. generous to accommodate, do not care about the non-human world hate love, magnanimous, broad-minded, experienced lovers can live in peace with them, thus enlightenment Buddha, attained the six degrees. 
      3 Tatu Maitreya blending magic in plain, showing beautiful in the ugly clumsy, obvious solemn in witty metaphor antics now mercy on behalf of the Chinese nation tolerant, kind, intelligent, humorous, happy spirit became the ambassador of Chinese Buddhism , also on behalf of the Chinese nation's image