Artist Hsieh Wen-shan, who specializes in painting portraits of Bodhidharma, remembers that the images he used to see as a child showed him thinner, "but now clients like him to be somewhat plumper, and a bit fiercer too." After all, he is meant to ward off evil!
專畫達摩像的謝文山表示，他小時候見到的達摩像比較瘦，「但是現在客人喜歡福態一點的，而且要兇一點」，原來是請回去避邪！