People used to say that if you were traveling north on the highway, when you could see the Grand Hotel, you knew you were closing in on Taipei. When it comes to Changhua, in most people's minds the representative landmark like that would have been Mt. Pakua's Big Buddha.
從前，北上的高速公路上只要遠遠看到圓山飯店，就知道台北到了；至於說到彰化，相信很多人腦海中，也會不自覺地浮起那座甚具代表性的「八卦山大佛」。