The costumes of the opera are

The costumes of the opera are open cloak, official clothes, python and so on.

1, open cloak

"Open cloak" belongs to the civilian clothes. It is used for high-ranking military generals and powerful officials in non-ceremonial occasions (military and home). Because this kind of dress is very big, so in order to strengthen the expressive force, also used for drama protagonist of a certain kind of characters, such as occupying the mountain as the king of the stronghold, martial arts generals and chivalrous and so on.

2, official clothes

The official clothes of civil officials. Used for intermediate civil officials (individual cases such as the new scholar, wedding ceremony groom, etc. also used). Derived from the Ming Dynasty official clothes - disc collar and narrow sleeves robe. Its shape is basically the same as that of the python, except that it is not embroidered and is made of plain satin. The chest and back are each decorated with a square "patch", embroidered with birds and the rising sun and seawater. Ming and Qing dynasties, to "patch" pattern to distinguish between official rank, identity, literature embroidered birds, military embroidered beasts, embroidered patterns are strictly regulated.

3, python

Program: the emperor and generals and other noble status of the general dress. Shoulder collar, large lapel (right overlap), wide sleeves (with water sleeves), robe length and feet, sleeve seam under the "pendulum slit": circumference to gold or silver thread and colorful floss embroidery art patterns. Women's python and men's python is more or less the same (see also).

Aesthetic Implications:

One of the artistic means of portraying the external image of a character. It is used to reflect the character's identity, age, personality, ethnicity and occupational characteristics, as well as to show the specific times, living customs and prescribed situations in the play. In Chinese opera, it is customarily referred to as the "head of the line".

Traditional Chinese theater costumes are commonly known as "行头". Theatrical costumes belonging to the traditional Chinese theatrical performing arts belong to the "artistic system of writing", which is a kind of artistic costume refined from the processing of living costumes, similar to the historical living costumes to a certain extent, but not the historical living costumes, but the wonderful imaginative costumes between the similarity and the dissimilarity.

Traditional theater costumes rely on and depend on the aesthetic meaning of physical clothing, and traditional theater performance program, virtual and hypothetical to match, "for the character of the expression of the service for the highest aesthetic pursuit of the goal. It has the beauty of program, rhythmic beauty, decorative beauty and symbolic beauty.