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 carved from a single piece of an exquisite and rare hardwood with a lustrous patina. The exquisite carving in beautiful dense wood and patina make this a wonderful and distinctive piece.
This antique stone Tudi Gong statue was finely crafted by a local provincial artisan and reflects many traditional characteristics of this beloved lower status deity: a benevolent face, voluminous rotund belly, slouched shoulders, and holding taels to bestow wealth and fortune and maybe assurances to rural common folk. In his past he rested happily on an outdoor shrine, and would be very happy to continue doing so in a home garden to bring prosperity and an aura of past times to a new family.
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