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Title	Popular woodblock prints: pair of military door gods (1)
Description	Colored woodblock prints of popular images are associated with popular religious beliefs and ceremonies mostly observed at Chinese lunar New Year. Images of protective, military door gods (in pairs) were replaced on the front, street doors each year at New Year’s time to prevent evil from entering the house.
Country	China
Historical Period	China - People's Republic of China 1949 - present
Work of Art, Present Location	Wittenberg University
Type	still image
Format	image/tif
Extent	1424 w x 2224 h, 72 ppi
Date Photographed/Recorded	9/1/2006
Permissions	Materials may be used for educational, non-commercial purposes only. Acknowledgement to be given to the ASIANetwork-Luce Asian Art in the Undergraduate Curriculum Project and to the college from whose collection the work comes. The individual college retains copyright to the work.
IDEAS Collection	ASIANetwork-Luce Asian Art in the Undergraduate Curriculum Project
Institution Name	Wittenberg University
IDEAS Identifier	soclaa000063
Collection Editor	Kucera, Karil
Notes	References: Nancy Zeng Berliner, Chinese Folk Art (New York: New York Graphic Society, 1986), pp. 197-223. AND Ellen Johnston Laing, Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Popular Prints: Selections from the Muban Foundation Collection (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2000).

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