清朝末年,山西有一个商家,女主人信佛,想在自家堂屋里立一座佛像,便请了一位老石匠负责雕塑佛像,要求佛像坐高两米,后半身镶嵌在墙壁内。老石匠很爽快地把活儿接了下来。他们先按尺寸凿出大致的轮廓,然后开始仔细加工佛像的正面,眼睛、鼻子……连眉毛都一清二楚。正面加工完以后,老石匠吩咐徒弟把半成品翻过来,开始雕刻背面。其中有个新来的小徒弟,见此情形十分不解,就 At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a merchant and hostess who believed in Buddhism in Shanxi Province and wanted to set up a statue in their own house. They asked an old stone mason to sculpt Buddha statues and asked the statues to sit two meters high and set the back half body in the walls. The old masons are very easy to pick up the job. They first dimensioned the approximate outline, and then began to carefully process the front, eyes, and nose of Buddha’s statues ... even the eyebrows were crystal clear. After finishing the front, the old mason instructed apprentice to turn over the semi-finished products, began to carve the back. There is a new apprentice, see this situation is very puzzled, it