Nearly 500 students gather at Lao Tzu's Rock at the foot of Mount Qingyuan and chant Tao Te Ching to carry on traditional culture and morality in Quanzhou, East China's Fujian province, May 5, 2010. The statue of Lao Tzu, a philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC to 476 BC) and founder of the Taoist school of thought, was carved out of a natural rock in the Song Dynasty. The 5.1 meter-high statue, vividly and exquisitely carved, is the largest Taoist stone sculpture in China now under state protection. [Photo/CFP]
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