The door gods Ch'in Ch'iung and Yuchih Chingte were T'ang dynasty (618-- 907) generals whom the emperor T'ai Tsung, fallen ill and frightened by ghostly howls and wails, ordered to stand guard outside his sickroom. They are popularly called White Face and Black Face or, in Kiangsi province, the White General and the Red.
傳說唐太宗生病，聞鬼號呼，因此讓秦瓊、敬德戎裝立於門外以鎮邪，俗呼白臉兒、黑臉兒；九江一帶則稱白將軍、紅將軍。