How to explain Peking Opera Mask in English?

Peking Opera mask refers to the makeup patterns on the faces of Peking Opera actors, which is a special makeup method with Chinese cultural characteristics. In Peking Opera, each historical figure or a certain type of character has a general spectrum, which is called "face painting".

Regarding the ** of Facebook, the general saying is that it comes from the mask. Peking Opera mask art is a very popular art for the majority of opera lovers, and has been recognized as one of the symbols of traditional Chinese culture. There are three main features of Facebook:

The contradiction between beauty and ugliness, the stylization of patterns, and the close relationship between the character and the character.

Features: Facebook has different situations for different industries. "Sheng" and "Dan" facial makeup are simple, with a little fat powder, which is called "handsome", "plain", and "clean".

The "pure line" and "ugly line" face paintings are more complicated, especially the "clean", which are all heavy oil paint, and the pattern is complex, so it is called "flower face".

The face painting in opera mainly refers to the "pure" facial painting. And "ugly", because it plays a dramatic role, so a small piece of white powder is smeared on the bridge of the nose, commonly known as "little flower face".

In Peking Opera, the red face represents loyalty, the black face represents integrity, and the white face represents cunning. In Peking Opera, the black face symbolizes a very serious character and does not smile, which is neutral and represents fierce wisdom, for example, Bao Zheng in "Bao Gong Opera" is a black face.

The red face symbolizes loyalty, uprightness and bloody characters, such as Guan Yu in the "Three Kingdoms Opera" is the representative character of the red face. The white face symbolizes the treacherous and suspicious character, which mostly contains derogatory connotations and represents fierceness, such as the role of Cao Cao in the "Three Kingdoms Opera".

The origin of Peking Opera masks. Peking Opera masks originated from life. The shape and contour of each person's facial organs are similar, the physiological layout also has certain rules, and the texture of facial muscles is closely related to the age, physiology, experience, and natural conditions of life of the characters.

As often said in life, the faces of people are tanned, frightened and white, flushed, and sick, etc., which are not only the revelation of the psychological activities and mental states of the characters in the play, but also the expression of their physiological characteristics.

Red general: loyalty, justice, might, solemnity, mostly used for bloody characters.

Other: Ironic, indicating a fake good person.

Special case: the old man shows that the red light is still young; The bad guys did something good.

In terms of color, the current Peking Opera masks have red, purple, black, white, blue, green, yellow, old red, tile gray, gold, silver and other colors, which is an exaggerated description of the natural skin color of the characters and developed into an allegorical color for character symbols. Generally speaking, red depicts the brave and loyal characters and their bravery; Purple symbolizes wisdom, courage and righteousness; The black color reflects the noble character of the character, who is loyal and upright; The aqua white alludes to the hateful face of the characters who are treacherous by nature and vicious; Oil white shows a conceited and domineering character; Blue symbolizes strength and bravery; The green color outlines the chivalrous bones of the characters; Yellow means brutality; The old red mostly shows the loyal and brave veterans who are highly respected; The tile gray alludes to the old hero; Gold and silver are mostly used for gods, Buddhas, and ghosts to show their golden face and golden body, symbolizing the sense of illusion.

The composition of Peking Opera masks is varied, coupled with colorful and highly decorative patterns, which are easy to dazzle people and produce a sense of mystery. In fact, there are only a dozen types in summary, and because of mutual reference and mutual change, many spectrums are derived. These scores are based on the appearance and personality characteristics of various characters, even if they are of the same type, due to the different personalities of the characters, the line outline and color treatment of each part are also different, so that each character is rich in their own personality, and never the same.

The composition of the face is generally as follows:

In fact, the red face mask was originally just to show the skin color of the character, and many characters with red and black skin tones are very loyal and upright. Blue: In Peking Opera masks, blue and green have similar meanings, both are extensions of black, indicating that the characters are strong and bold, and sometimes they also indicate the insidious and cunning of the characters.

Black: Black was originally used to represent the skin color of the character, Bao Gong painted a black face to show his ** black, with Bao Zheng iron face selfless and just image is highly respected, black is symbolized as a character representation, after extension, black face is generally used for integrity and selflessness, upright and straightforward and resolute and brave characters. White:

White is divided into pink white and oil white. In Peking Opera, white masks are often used to express the villain of treacherous and evil characters, such as the traitorous male Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms opera, who painted a pink and white face, indicating that he was treacherous and suspicious. In addition, old heroes, generals, monks, eunuchs and other characters with crane hair and childish faces can also draw white faces.

Green: In Peking Opera masks, green masks are generally used to represent brave, reckless, and irascible characters, which has a similar meaning to black masks. In addition, some of the grass characters who occupy the mountain are also painted with green faces.

Yellow: In Peking Opera masks, yellow is used to imply that characters are brave or fierce and cruel, so yellow masks are generally used for brave and irascible characters. Purple:

Purple is the intermediate color of red and black, and its symbolic meaning is also between red and black, generally indicating solemnity and stability, righteousness and majesty, and a sense of justice. Some characters are depicted as purple faces in ** and dramas, so they are painted with purple faces, and some characters are painted with purple faces to show that his appearance is ugly.

Red represents the loyal and brave people, and when used as a secondary color, it hints at the fate of the characters; The black face represents fierceness, integrity, bravery, roughness, and recklessness; The yellow face mask indicates fierceness, insidiousness, and brutality; The white face generally symbolizes the sinister and cunning bad guys; Blue or green faces denote strong, rugged, unruly characters, and sometimes elves or something. **It's been mentioned in the textbook, but I can't remember ...... clearly

Peking Opera Mask is Peking Opera Mask.