How does the face in Sichuan opera change?

Changing the face is one of the special techniques of Sichuan opera performing arts. It is a romantic expression of the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters in the play. There are three ways to change your face - wiping your face, blowing your face, and pulling your face.

Wipe your face: Apply oil paint to a specific part of your face, and then wipe it with your hands to change your face into a different complexion. If you want to change it all, you can apply it to your forehead or eyebrows, and if you want to change only the lower half of your face, you can apply it to your face or nose.

Face blowing: only suitable for powdered cosmetics, such as gold powder, toner, silver powder, etc., some are placed on the ground of the stage in a very small box, containing powder, the actor will do a dance move on the ground, take the opportunity to close the face to the box and blow, the powder will pounce on the face, and immediately turn into a face of another color.

Face pulling: A more complicated method of changing faces. It is a paper that draws a face on a piece of silk in advance, cuts it, and ties a silk thread to each face.

Then one by one on the face, the silk thread is tied to a certain convenient and unobtrusive part of the clothes, and as the performance is needed, under the cover of the dance moves, one by one is torn off...

The mechanism is in the clothes, and the people who change their faces are dragged away by the thread, and as for hiding there.

It's hidden in your clothes.

In the hat, and in the collar.

The opera mask has a unified meaning.

White, representing the character treacherous, resourceful, and suspicious.

Yellow, representing the character's irritable and courageous personality.

Black, representing the righteousness and uprightness of the characters.

Green, the representative figure is a reckless hero.

Blue, the representative character is brave and strategic.

Silver, representing the earth fairy or spirit.

Gold, representing a relatively high status of the gods, Buddha.

The outline of the face, the number of colors, the different plots of the same character, and different representatives.

In Sichuan opera masks, there are various types, various characters, and various expressions of faces, which represent different characters. And in the use of color, there is also a certain amount of attention. Each different color mask represents a different character and personality.

For example: red - shows that the physique is not strong, but in fact the character is brave e.g. Gan Ning Blue (green) - mostly used for fierce and terrifying characters such as:

Lu Qi, Evil Ghost Black - Shows integrity, frankness, and recklessness Such as: Zhang Fei, Li Kui White - Shows treacherous and sinister Shows Cao Cao, Dong Zhuo Red - Shows fierce temperament and loyal and upright characters Such as: Guan Yu.

The face is changed with a face mask, red, white, black, yellow and other colors are the most common on the stage, and then gradually developed and enriched, blue, green, pink, purple, gray, ochre, gold, silver, constitute a complete color series of the face.

Red: As the main color, it represents loyalty, courage and martyrdom.

Black: Strong, brave, reckless, and reckless.

Blue: Strong, rugged, brave, and unruly.

Green: Strong, strong, violent, and irritable.

Yellow: It means fierce, **, insidious, and scheming.

White: Indicates insidiousness, cunning, and deceit.

The characteristics of Sichuan opera mask are: 1. The contradiction and unity of beauty and ugliness. 2. A close relationship with the character's personality.

3. The pattern of the face is stylized. Face painting is a painting on the face of a traditional Chinese opera performer, and is used in the art of makeup and modeling during stage performances. Different professions of Facebook, the situation is different.

For example, the facial makeup of "Sheng" and "Dan" is simple, with a little fat powder, which is called "handsome", "plain", and "clean". The face paintings of "pure line" and "ugly line" are more complicated, especially the net line, which is heavy on oil paint and has complex patterns, so it is called "flower face".

According to the depiction and coloring method, the face is divided into four basic types: kneading, hooking, wiping, and breaking.

Rubbing the face: dignified and mighty, the whole color is the main, and the texture of the facial features is accentuated. It's a very old form of face makeup.

Hook face: colorful, rich patterns, complex and beautiful, colorful, some also paste gold and silver, gorgeous.

Wipe the face: light color is more, thinking that it is painted on the face, not showing the true face, highlighting the nature of the treacherous and bad person.

Broken face: Asymmetrical face, left and right, describing ugly or negative characters.

The face pattern is very rich, and it is roughly divided into forehead map, eyebrow shape map, eye orbit map, nose socket map, mouth fork map, and mouth bottom map. The pattern of each part is varied, regular and inconclusive. For example, Bao Zhenghei has a white crescent moon on his forehead, which means that he is honest and honest.

Meng Liang had a red gourd on his forehead, indicating that this person likes to drink. Wen Zhong and Yang Jian have three eyes, ** in classical legends.

Characteristics of Sichuan Opera: Sichuan Opera is rich in high-pitched songs, beautiful and moving singing, and has the most local characteristics, which is the main singing form of Sichuan Opera. Sichuan opera gang cavity is the leading cavity, the chorus is unique, the accompaniment singing, the duet singing, etc., which means timeless and fascinating.

The language of Sichuan Opera is lively, humorous, full of distinctive local colors, rich life atmosphere and a wide mass base. There are hundreds of repertoire commonly found on the stage, singing, doing, reading, and playing are complete, the witty words are humorous, the instrumental music helps to set off, and the "changing face", "fire-breathing" and "water sleeves" are unique, plus the freehand stylized movements contain endless wonderful .......

Sichuan opera is one of the Han Chinese operas, popular in the eastern and central parts of Sichuan, Chongqing or Zhou, Guizhou and Yunnan. In terms of the vocal cavity of opera, Sichuan opera is composed of four major vocal cavities, including high cavity, Kun cavity, Huqin cavity, and Danxi, plus a folk lantern opera in the province. Sichuan opera mask is an important part of Sichuan opera performing arts; It is an artistic treasure created and passed down by generations of Sichuan opera artists.

Sichuan opera has the research and cognitive value of Bashu culture, art, history, folk customs, etc., and has a very unique position in the history of Chinese opera and the development of Bashu culture. It was inscribed as an intangible cultural heritage in 2006.

Chinese name: Sichuan opera.

Place of birth: Chongqing, Sichuan Province.

Date of birth: 2006

Intangible Cultural Heritage Level: China's Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Heritage category: Traditional Theatre.

Heritage number: -12

Application area: Chongqing City, Sichuan Province.