Looks like a guardian deity who’s flipping you off because you’re not supposed to take pictures inside the temple. 
Where is this temple?
Is he Guan Gong?
Flippin off Cao Cao maybe
Yeah, where is this temple. I would like to check it out.
It’s in Chia Yi…kinda near the wet market area. I used to know how to get there by motorcycle but it’s been a while…you could make a game out of it…
It looks like it’s from the Photoshop temple.
no photoshop…
Are you sure?
Positive because my friend took the picture with his digital camera…a very old digital camera, the kind that stores pictures on a floppy disk. I was there when he took the picture.
It could be just a “gate/door guard.” I don’t know what the sign in this case means but I recall I saw the “flipping the bird” in pictures or portraits somewhere else too.
Many Chinese or Taiwanese (at least older ones) don’t know what raising the “middle finger” means. I often see people using their middle finger to point to an object or finger-read a newspaper or a page of a book.
His name is 秦叔寶, a general commander in Tang (唐朝), died in 638 AD.
Qin Shubao? Well, that explains it. I would be mad too if I’d been stuck with being the “Door God” for all eternity. In Western nations, his counterpart usually stands behind velvet ropes at trendy nightclubs.
[quote=“mofangongren”]Qin Shubao? Well, that explains it. I would be mad too if I’d been stuck with being the “Door God” for all eternity.[/quote]yep, u r not wrong at all. Because of his brave heart and good combat skill on the battle field, after he died, people paint he on the door/gate to prevent the evil getting into the house.
[quote] In Western nations, his counterpart usually stands behind velvet ropes at trendy nightclubs.[/quote]and checking the ID