Information about the facial makeup of China traditional opera.

Red has Facebook to show loyalty, such as Guan Yu, Jiang Wei and Chang Yuchun; Black faces show fortitude, integrity, courage and even recklessness, such as Bao Zheng, Zhang Fei and Li Kui jy. Yellow facial expressions indicate fierceness and cruelty, such as Yuwen Chengdou and Dian Wei. Blue or green Facebook shows some rude and violent characters, such as Doulton and Ma Wu. White faces generally represent traitors and bad guys, such as Cao Cao and Zhao Gao.

1, learn from the principle of blood inheritance in life. For example, Zhang Bao, son of Zhang Fei, Meng Qiang, Jiao Yu, son of Zhang Fei, and Wei Chibaolin, son of Zhang Fei, copied his father's face and gradually became a statute.

2. According to the names of the characters in the play, attach colors to determine the face shape. For example, Qi Huangong has a bad face because of the name "Xiaobai", the tiger with a creamy face has a bad face because of the word "green", Zhang Shun with white stripes in the long lane has a bad face because of the word "white", and it is all because of the word "black" in the dark wind and 50% black.

3. pass it on; The faces of some characters in the play are from False Biography (falsehood), attached. For example, Wen Tianxiang blushes because it is homophonic with Wen. Steel is black, just like steel. Therefore, in the old Peking Opera, people who are violent are often black-faced, such as Zhen Gang in Caoqiaoguan and Li Gang in Qingyang (Xue Gang in Xu Ce 9), all because of the word "gang" in their names (there is a saying in Peking Opera that "three gang don't see red"). Guan Taihe in Eight Wax Museum and Guan Sheng in Guan Sheng are blushing only because they share the same surname as Guan Yu.

1, full face: use one color as the main tone to exaggerate skin color, and then outline eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth and detailed facial muscle lines.

2. Three-tile face: also known as "three-tile face", it is a painting that further exaggerates eyebrows, eyes and nose on the basis of the whole face, and draws two eyebrows and a nose with lines, so it is called "three-tile face". It is divided into "positive three tiles", "pointed three tiles", "waste three tiles" and "old three tiles".

3. Cross frontage: developed from three tile faces, characterized by narrowing the three colors into a color bar, hooking from the moon door to the nose, and using this color bar to symbolize people. The main color stripes and eye sockets form a cross, hence the name "cross frontage", which is divided into "flower cross gate" and "old cross gate".

4, six-point face: characterized by shrinking the main color of the forehead into colored strips, exaggerating the eyebrow shape, white eyebrow shape accounts for four tenths, and the main color accounts for six tenths. "Six-point face" is also called "old face".

5. Painted face: It evolved from the "three-tile face with flowers", retaining the main color and adding auxiliary colors to other parts, with rich colors, diverse compositions and delicate lines, so it is called "painted face".

6, crooked face: mainly used to exaggerate the five senses of accomplices, ugly appearance, characterized by asymmetric hook method, giving people a sense of skew.

7. Monk face: "Monk face" is also called "Monk face". It is characterized by a fork in the waist, eye socket, nose socket and mouth, and a relic bead or nine points on the forehead, indicating that Buddhism is ordained.

8. Eunuch face: it is dedicated to showing eunuchs who abuse their powers and harm the people. The color is only red and white, and the form is similar to "full face" and "three-tile face", but it exaggerates the characteristics of eunuchs; Hook a round lamp on your forehead to show that you are castrated and call yourself a Buddhist disciple. The fat lines on the forehead and cheeks show the appearance of pampering.

9. Yuanbao face: The color of forehead and face is different, and it looks like an ingot, so it is called "Yuanbao face". There are three kinds of "ordinary ingot noodles", "inverted ingot noodles" and "flower ingot noodles"

10, pictographic face: generally used in fairy plays, the composition and color are based on the image characteristics of each elf, and there is no fixed spectrum. Painting should be like a non-image, not too realistic, pay attention to "meaning outside the pen" and focus on "vivid" so that the audience can see at a glance what kind of monster has been transformed.

1 1. immortal face: developed from "full face" and "three tiles", both of which are used to express the faces of gods and buddhas, and the composition adopts Buddha statues. Give priority to with gold and silver, or add gold and silver lines and color blocks to the auxiliary colors to show sacredness and majesty.

12. Clown face: Also known as "three faces" or "small faces", it is characterized by putting a white "tofu block" in the center of the bridge of the nose to express the comic features of the characters in a cartoon way.

13, Little Demon Face: Little Demon Face shows the roles of the celestial general and the little demon in fairy tales. This kind of facial makeup is also called "random face".

14, heroic face: "heroic face" does not refer to the faces of outstanding people, but refers to the faces of teachers who fight boxing sticks and thugs who participate in martial arts.

The red face symbolizes loyalty, faithfulness and blood, such as Guan Yu in The Three Kingdoms Opera and Wu Han in Cut the Sutra Hall.

Others: satire, which means false good people.

Guan Yu (red face)

Black face shows a serious character, unsmiling, such as Bao Zheng in Bao Gong's drama. It also symbolizes strength, rudeness and boldness, such as Zhang Fei in the Three Kingdoms Opera and Li Kui jy in the Water Margin Opera.

Others: indicates yin in yin and yang. Used of ghosts. Black skin or ugly face.

Zhang Fei (black cross butterfly face)

White face is treacherous and suspicious, such as Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms Opera and Yan Song in Yan Song.

Cao Cao (white face)

Blue face shows upright and upright character, such as Ma Wu in "Going to the Roof" and Dou Erdun in "Comics".

Douerdun (blue flowers and three tiles)

Purple face is solemn, steady and full of sense of justice, such as Xu in the Second Palace and Zhuan Xu in the Fishbone Sword.

Others: bad complexion, ugly.

Zhang He (purple three-tile face)

The golden face symbolizes strength and majesty, and represents an immortal role. Such as Tathagata and Erlang God in a noisy paradise.

Dapeng (golden elephant face)

Green face

Brave and reckless.

Others: outlaws.

Others are yellow-faced, pink-faced and silver-faced.