FEATURE: Temple artist restoring historic buildings
After spending more than six decades adding color to temples all over Taiwan, artisan Tsai Lung-chin (蔡龍進) has set his brush on restoring worn door gods and other bastions of traditional architecture back to their original splendor. At 75 years old, Tsai is no newcomer to traditional temple painting. He began 62 years ago growing up as a child of farmers in Yunlin County’s Shueilin Township (水林). Tsai recalled that when he was not toiling in the sweltering fields, he loved visiting temples to watch glass painters at work. Drawing from their inspiration, he bought some paper to try...
Source: taipeitimes.com
