The scholar Chung K'uei, also from the T'ang dynasty, was another subject of New Year's pictures, these painted inside the palace but the function of which, to ward off evil, was similar to that of the door gods.
同在唐代出現的終南山進士鍾馗，也是年畫的題材。從前宮中有歲首畫鍾馗辟邪的風俗，作用與門神並無二致。