Traditional Chinese Art: Folk Gods

Author: Ye Zhaoxing
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: In ancient times, China had the legend of "painting roosters on doors and tigers on gates." By the Han Dynasty and later, there were colored lacquer door gods. During the Tang and Song dynasties, Zhong Kui was depicted as guarding the entrances and affixed to doors. After the invention of woodblock printing, large quantities of printed images of door gods, kitchen gods, tiger faces, and other decorative seasonal artworks were widely circulated among the people. From then on, folk deities entered the homes of ordinary people. Folk deities are distinctive in their modeling and color application, with a vibrant, exaggerated, yet rigorous and full artistic effect that surpasses any other form of painting art. (Folk Door God Images!)