This is especially significant in view of the wholesale destruction of traditional buildings in mainland China over recent years. In Taiwan too, tall office buildings and concrete apartment blocks have become the main architectural "vocabulary," leaving no space for stone lions, and the stone lions at temples are often smeared in gaudy colors, making them unbearably vulgar.
特別是大陸近年建物破壞嚴重；即使台灣，隨著高樓大廈、水泥公寓成為現代建築的主要「語彙」，已沒有容納石獅的角落；廟裡石獅也常被塗得五顏六色、俗不可耐。