The Song Dynasty is the period of Sinicization, secularization and popularization for the Buddhism in China. The color-painted Arhat clay sculptures in the Qinglian Temple at Jincheng City and Chongqing Temple at Zhangzi County, both in Shanxi Province,and the Purple Gold Nunnery at Suzhou City, Jiangsu, are all artworks of this time.Their facial features and postures are different from each other but all displayed the artistic style of realism, naturalness and individualization of the color-painted Arhat clay sculptures of the Song Dynasty by the aesthetics of "being true to life and showing various wonderful bearings".
