Description of colorful sculptures of Shuanglin Temple

The Heavenly King's Hall has four vajra sculptures under the eaves of the porch, each about 3 meters high, two on each side of the door. The four vajra eyes are sharp, all cast to the visitors in the center. Because of the glass beads as pupils, diamond eyes bright, like a real person. Their clothing is simple and plain, three are topless and one has a waist skirt. This treatment makes it easier for the craftsmen to mold the vajra to be powerful and strong, the craftsmen with high pectoral muscles to express this theme, the four vajra like today's bodybuilders pose a variety of shapes, so that the muscles rippled, the body seems to contain a huge power. Each vajra hand holding a vajra pestle, four vajra are sitting on top of something, a leg forward and sideways, a leg to the other side of the flat stretch, calves forward and flat curved suspension. Their facial expressions are extremely exaggerated, each cross-eyed, alive and well, giving a sense of majesty. The four diamond statue can be called the ancient Chinese colored sculpture classic. It is a great pity that each of the four vajra has one foot damaged (due to the suspension), revealing the wooden tire.

After passing through the Hall of the Heavenly King is a Buddhist temple, where more than 2,000 colorful statues of Shuanglin Temple are hidden in a gray tile and brick wall. Anyone who has never been here can't imagine that in a temple in such an ordinary-looking village in Jinzhong, there are so many of what are arguably the most outstanding works of colorful sculpture in all of China's history.

With the Heavenly King Hall that the four heavenly kings is different, Shuanglin Temple inside the various types of colorful sculpture life is extremely rich, not to mention the eighteen Luohan in the colorful sculpture of each and every life-size is no different, the body proportionality is accurate, that is, the five senses modeling and the ordinary people as relatable. There is a dumb Luohan's look on the extremely God, eyes open slightly squinting, lips pursed slightly curved, as if there is a bellyful of words to say but deliberately playing deaf and dumb.

Transatlantic Goddess of Mercy single-legged sitting in the red lotus position of tranquility and ease is just, there are honored to sit in the Goddess of Mercy, left foot drooped on the stage, the right foot is cocked on the stage, the right hand is also leisurely set up in the knee, such a leisurely posture in all the Bodhisattvas I've seen a unique, self-contained in the Goddess of Mercy, the "free" feeling is revealed.