Who does the color of facial makeup in Henan Opera represent?

Generally speaking, the roles of Henan Opera are four students, four Dan and four Hua.

The four students are big red face (also called red net and drama students), two red faces (also called instant red face), primary school students and marginal students (also called two red faces);

Sidan is Zheng Dan (Tsing Yi), Xiao Dan (Hua Dan, Guimendan), Lao Dan and Shuaidan;

The four-flowered faces are blackheads (sub-nets), big flowered faces, two flowered faces and three flowered faces.

Because it is a matter of eight men and four women, four students and four faces are called the outer octagon, and the drama dominated by male characters is called the "outer octagon drama".

The color of traditional opera facial makeup symbolizes the quality, personality and tolerance of a certain character with a color, which is called "main color" and is the most important intuitive expression means of facial makeup. Artists use colors such as red, blue, white, black, gold, purple and silver to highlight the characters in the play in an exaggerated way. It is manifested in three aspects: form, spirit and meaning, which means praise and blame, and love and hate are clear. Show the character's loyalty, treachery, goodness, evil, etc.

The colors of China traditional opera masks respectively represent the following meanings:

Red: It represents loyal and heroic figures, such as Huang and Guan Yu.

Blue: It represents a strong, brave and calculating character, such as Dou Erdun.

Black: a character image representing integrity, selflessness and integrity, such as Bao Gong.

White: It represents insidious, suspicious, flying and shy people. Such as Cao Cao.

Green: stands for tenacious and irritable character. For example: Wu Tianqi.

Yellow: It represents Xiao Yong and fierce people, such as Yuwen Chengdou.

Purple: stands for honest, steady and calm people.

Gold and silver: representing all kinds of supernatural images.