Stone carving dragon pillars of the Cultural
Dragon stone carving dragon pillars gods benevolent, mainly from the myths and legends of people's fantasy, after time evolution of, and some are combined with religious ideas, especially influenced by Taoism and Buddhism, and to convert it to havespecial 'abilities, and thus subject to the people's faith and worship. In the decoration of the temples in Taiwan, the gods auspicious occupies the equivalent position, it reflects the belief in the national culture, fantasy, and the hope for peace and prosperity in the world.
Taiwan temple came from southern China, decorated rich and gaudy colors, ornate carved dragon pillars of carving, decorating. Temples in Taiwan, the the dragon pillars often deity status symbol. So, the dragon pillars of carving, also represents the pious believers of gods performance. Therefore, the dragon pillars form a feature of one of the temple buildings in Taiwan.
A column of a dragon, a column Ssangyong:
The dragon body around the pillar lap, Lung Mei, whichever is the momentum of heaven on, leading the next, leading Ang, Alondra grip beads. The one column Dragon and can be divided into: the pillar pure Diao shape, the meantime up together with the white clouds. The the pillar foundation also with a variety of aquarium pattern, carving delicate, but the artistic level but lower drop. Taiwan temple dragon pillars of development, in addition to the form by simple and tedious; their application, has also evolved to no regulation flood. Many temples have dragon pillars of the amount to win, regardless of its spatial arrangement and visual aesthetic effect merely exaggerated claims about the purpose of showing off, the loss of the meaning and value of the dragon pillars of the temple.
Longfeng column: that is leading the next Phoenix home on the composition, during and interspersed figures beasts and other decorative popular after the Japanese occupation era carving style, such as the Chenghuang the main hall Yanzhu Hsinchu.
Quyang stone dragon pillars is the main pillar of stone carving in the temple, there are other bird column, bats column, figure column and couplets column and so has its special significance. Their form, although unlike Panlong column the obvious style development, but the subject matter is rich, fine carving, artistic beauty, rich themes.