What do red face and white face represent respectively?

Red faces represent good people and white faces represent bad people. Red face and white face come from Peking Opera facial makeup. Generally, loyal officials or good people are dressed as red faces, while treacherous officials or bad people are dressed as white faces. It means that when doing something, two people cooperate, one plays a friendly or lovable role and the other plays a strict or annoying role.

What are the Peking Opera masks?

The sketch of Peking Opera facial makeup is based on life, and it is also a summary of life.

The classification of Peking Opera facial makeup includes: full face, three-tile face, cross face and six-tile face, broken face and crooked face, monk face and eunuch face, ingot face and pictographic face, fairy face and clown face, small demon face and hero face.

The artistic characteristics of Peking Opera facial makeup are deformation, vividness and implication, and it is a kind of makeup art. Its color painting methods are basically divided into three categories: rubbing face, wiping face and hooking face.

Facial patterns are very rich, generally divided into forehead, eyebrow, orbit, nasal fossa, mouth fork and floor of mouth. The pattern of each part is different, regular and inconclusive.

Peking Opera facial makeup uses exaggerated colors and patterns to express the personality characteristics of characters, which has a special position in the eyes of the audience. The facial makeup in Peking Opera also extends to reality. So what do red face and white face represent respectively? Red face represents good people, plays a good role, tolerates children or adjusts the atmosphere. The white face represents the bad guys, plays the role of speaking ill, and takes a tough and strict attitude towards things. There is a saying: a bad policeman, a bad policeman. In the family, parents will adopt the strategy of playing the red face and playing the bad face to educate their children, which can educate their children well and ease family relations.