During the Northern Sung dynasty (960--1127), street vendors in Pienliang, the capital, sold at year's end wooden boards painted with pictures of various door gods, some shown in tiger-shaped headgear, fearsome to behold. The door god paintings of the rich and noble sparkled with gold foil.
文獻記載北宋首都汴梁，在歲末時，街上就出現了販賣木板印刷的門神年畫，有的門神頭罩虎兜，十分威武；王侯貴族所用的門神畫更貼以金箔，顯得金碧輝煌。