摘要
Han people in China have a tradition of pasting gate god portraits. On the eve of Chinese New Year people living in the north paste new gate god portraits and Spring Festival couplets. But in Wenzhou,
Han people in China have a tradition of pasting gate god portraits. On the eve of Chinese New Year people living in the north paste new gate god portraits and Spring Festival couplets. But in Wenzhou, a coastal city in southern Zhejiang Province, people only paste Spring Festival couplets. Gate god portraits are only painted in temples and ancestral halls. Painters paint portraits directly on gates, which are more than four meters tall each and look valiant. Local people believe that only by doing so can they ward off evils and ghosts and safeguard peace of their families and communities.
