In the Peking Opera mask, green means something

Red signifies fierce loyalty; Purple represents wisdom, courage and righteousness; Yellow means that the generals are brave and good at fighting; Green indicates chivalrous bones; Blue represents uprightness, bravery, and unruliness; Black indicates loyalty and integrity; White indicates insidious, treacherous, etc.

Peking Opera masks have red, purple, white, blue, green, yellow and other colors, of which red represents a decent, heroic, loyal, enthusiastic and generous character, showing people with a positive image, so when encountering disputes in life, the positive and friendly side is commonly known as singing red faceThe colors of the Peking Opera mask are very rich, and the color of the mask also represents a character.

The white face represents treacherous and suspicious, the black face represents both serious and unsmiling, and symbolizes mighty and powerful, rude and bold, blue face represents upright and unruly, purple face represents solemnity, steady, and a sense of justice, golden face symbolizes majesty and solemnity, and green face is brave and reckless.

Characteristics of Peking Opera masks

Peking Opera Mask is a special makeup method with Chinese cultural characteristics. Since each historical figure or a certain type of character has a general spectrum, it is called a face. Peking Opera mask art is a very popular art for the majority of opera lovers, which is very popular at home and abroad, and has been recognized as one of the symbols of traditional Chinese culture.

The main characteristics of the face are the contradictory unity of beauty and ugliness in three points, which are closely related to the character of the character, and its pattern is stylized. Peking Opera masks can be roughly summarized into two categories, one is the arts and crafts masks.

This kind of face mask is the author's imagination according to his own thinking and imagination, on the face shape of the plaster material, with painting, weaving, embroidery and other techniques to produce different shapes, color and pattern changes of face products, this kind of face mask has a certain ornamental value. The other type is the practical face of the stage. This kind of face mask is based on the needs of the plot and the characters in the play, and the actor uses exaggerated techniques to outline the face of different colors, different patterns and patterns.

1. Red face.

It symbolizes loyalty, uprightness, and blood, such as: Guan Yu in "Three Kingdoms Opera" and Wu Han in "Chopping Hall".

Other: Ironic, indicating a fake good person.

2. Black face.

It not only shows a serious personality, but also does not smile, is neutral, and represents fierce wisdom. such as Bao Zheng in "Bao Gong Opera"; It also symbolizes mighty and powerful, rude and bold, such as: Zhang Fei in "Three Kingdoms Opera", Li Kui in "Water Margin Opera", and Jiao Zan in "Yang Paifeng".

3. White face.

The performance is treacherous and suspicious, with derogatory meanings, representing deceit, such as: Cao Cao in "Three Kingdoms Opera", Yan Hao in "Fighting Yan Song", and Qin Hui.