The Change Of The Concept Of Guardianship In The Home Country

Taking the images of new door gods with armed forces(1584 pieces in all,350 pieces of armed forces included)as the research objectives,this thesis analyses the relationships between image elements and the changes of the concept of "family" and "national guard".This thesis contains five chapters.Starting from the history of door gods as family guardians,the first chapter represents the soldier images as the permanent patron saint of family and nation from ancient general to the modern soldiers.The second and third chapter analyze the elements of armed forces in those new door god images from multiple perspectives:image,pose,weapons and armed props.Those elements include the People's Liberation Army,the People's Armed Police,the People's Militia,the Children's Corps,People's Volunteer Army,and revolutionary martyrs.The fourth chapter analyzes the development and role of the soldier door gods since the anti-Japanese war from the perspective of military duty.And the fifth chapter represents the research findings and conclusions.As the guardian implication of "family"and "national guard" changes with time,the images of new door gods gradually disappeared,with its form changing from statues format to realism,the intentions from gaining sense of security to the satisfaction of vision,and the renewal of safety consciousness and ideology.From the first"war door god" to the last people's armed police door god at the end of the twenty century,the new door gods last nearly half a century.Today the new door gods,as the relics of a specific time,offer a new perspective for us to do the study of the current transformation of traditional culture.