Why is it called Maitreya spring?

Why is Spring in Buddhism called Spring Maitreya? Maitreya Buddha statue looks funny and unlike other Buddha is why?

Spring in Buddhism is called the Maitreya Spring because the new year is the feast day of Maitreya Buddha (1st New Year). The New Year's Eve celebrates the New Spring and also celebrates the birth of Maitreya Buddha 

On the other hand, the Maitreya is the future Buddha symbolizing happiness, joy, joyfulness, tolerance and forgiveness. This is also the wish of the early spring of the Buddha, praying and wishing for a happy and happy spring. Therefore, the Buddha who celebrates spring, in addition to the usual happy new year, also means to celebrate the birth of Buddha Maitreya and to strive to study and transform himself to rejoice, joy, forgive and cover. like Him, so called Maitreya spring.

The image of the Maitreya, in fact, he is the Bodhisattva Most born in the country currently residing in the interior of the Palace of Heaven. He is a contemporary Buddha, naturally full of 32 good generals and 80 beauty like other Buddhas. The Maitreya Buddha that we are worshiping with a big belly, a smiling mouth and a big bag is imitating an incarnation of Maitreya as Great Venerable Master (the great monk carrying a big bag) in China. . At the time of birth, no one knew He was the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha. Everyone knows only one great Grand Master, who is dressed in a mediocre manner, hands carrying a large cloth bag, always smiling, often distributing candies and playing with children. He marches to grace, joy and freedom. Before he passed away, he left a verse: "Maitreya Maitreya / Heavenly memory of reincarnation / Time of time of humanity / Era is often awake". (Mean: Maitreya is indeed Di Lac here, the incarnation of hundreds of thousands of memories, often taught to everyone, but people do not know. At that time it was known that he was the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha and sculpted to worship.

Thus, the Maitreya Buddha that we are worshiping today is the image of the Venerable Grandfather, an incarnation of Maitreya, thus unlike the statues of other Buddhas. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.13/1/2019.