Chinese Popular Religion is a wide spread belief in a multitude of deities, with each community – province, city or village – having its own pantheon of deities which include spirits of national and local worthies and heroes from recorded history as well as heavenly and nature deities. During the Ming and Qing dynasties popular religion images proliferated in temples and on home altars throughout China and were considerably more modest that the imperially and government sanctioned renderings.
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This very finely carved figure of an ancestor was commissioned by a family of either high status or wealth, having been fashioned from a single piece of an exquisite and rare hardwood with a lustrous patina.
Wonderfully aged and weathered stone Tudi Gong reflecting many traits of this beloved Earth God holding a tael for wealth and fortune. He sat happily on an outdoor shrine, and would be happy to sit in a garden to bring an aura of past times to a new family.
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