What are the Chinese door god paintings?

The ancient people's regard for portals gave rise to the worship of door gods. People painted chickens and tigers on the door, hanging reed rope, hanging peach talisman, sticking Shentan, Yubi, Qin Qiong, Jingde, Zhong Kui, and so on, that can drive away evil spirits and good fortune, and thus produced a lunar new year to post the folk custom of the door god paintings. Since ancient times, this custom has been passed down for thousands of years.

Door god painting has a long history, in China's folk art occupies an important position. There are many kinds of door god paintings, which can be roughly summarized into four types: general, god of good fortune, heavenly fairy, and child, and they have the characteristics of full composition, exaggerated deformation, strong decorative, and bright colors. It is rooted in the people's masses, in the long-term development of the formation of a simple, beautiful style and rich local color, is not to be ignored as a treasure of folk art.

Expanded Information

Men Shen painting is one of the traditional Chinese folk crafts. Originated in ancient China on some things can not be recognized and believe that up is a kind of magical power, and people's daily life is closely related to the unexplained scientific reasons. Then there is the door of the door of the people door life related to the earliest painted on the portal for warding off evil images, (peach charm is the earliest door god painting, has been passed down to the Tang and Song dynasties).

Later not only carved talisman also write text - became the origin of the Spring Festival couplets. After the economic and cultural development and the further prosperity of traditional Chinese culture coupled with the invention and application of engraving and printing, the original peach symbols or spring scrolls were engraved and printed to produce printed New Year's Eve paintings (spring scrolls, etc.), the output, form and content of the more rich.

After the emergence of the door god painting with local characteristics of the genre widely enriched, involving all aspects of life, expresses the Chinese working people a kind of warding off evils and disasters, and to welcome the good wishes of auspiciousness and good fortune.

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