Chinese traditional folk art gods

Author: Wang Kansheng, Editor-in-Chief
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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." Before and after the Han Dynasty, there were colored lacquer door gods, and during the Tang and Song dynasties, Zhong Kui was depicted as guarding the entrances, pasted on doors. After the invention of woodblock printing,、、 decorative images for festivals were widely circulated among the people. From then on, folk deities entered households across the nation. Folk deities are distinctive in their modeling and color application, with a vibrant and exaggerated yet rigorous and full artistic effect that surpasses any other form of painting. (Folk Door God Images!)