Tainan’s Singji Temple (興濟宮), for example, held a low-key candle placing ritual Monday night and focused on promoting its artifact exhibition featuring its recently restored door god paintings. BALANCING ACTA copy of the design painted on doors found at Tainan’s Singji Temple. Visitors to Taipei probably will inadvertently see one of Chen Shou-i’s earliest works: the door gods leading to Longshan Temple’s main hall. In 2017, he worked on the door gods from Tainan’s Zonggan Temple (總趕宮) — Chen’s first commission under his own name after his father died. In the worst case for door gods, some artisans sand the entire surface down and simply repaint the images.
