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| Keywords: Guardians of Day and Night, Han Dynasty.jpg Paintings on ceramic tile from the Chinese Han Dynasty 202 BC 220 AD ; these figures cloaked in Han Chinese robes represent guardian spirits of certain divisions of day and night On the left is the guardian of midnight from 11 pm to 1 am and on the right is the guardian of morning from 5 to 7 am From the National Museums of Scotland Edinburgh Robert Temple's The Genius of China 1986 New York Simon and Schuster Han Dynasty 202 BC 220 AD Anonymous Chinese artist PD-Art-100 Art of the Han Dynasty Paintings from China Mythology of China Art of China Zoomorphic figures Clothing of China Tiles in China Guardians Rabbits in art Paintings of mice Chinese Zodiac | ||||
