How does face changing work?

The methods of face changing are face wiping, face blowing and face pulling.

1, wipe the face: apply the oil color used for make-up on the face to achieve the purpose of changing the face.

2. Blow: Blow into a locket containing powder and let the powder inside get on your face to change your face.

3. Face Pulling: You need to draw a face in advance and put silk thread on it to hide it in your clothes, and then use a special technique to complete the face changing.

The face-pulling is the most complicated of the three methods, in which the performer draws all the faces on silk and cuts them out, tying a thread around each face. The performer then puts the masks on the face and ties the threads to the belt, then removes the masks one by one in time with the rhythm of the dance movements, thus completing the change of face.

Introduction of Face Changing

Sichuan Opera is one of the traditional opera genres, popular in the east-central Sichuan, Chongqing, and parts of Guizhou and Yunnan. Face-changing is one of the stunts of Sichuan opera performance, which is used to reveal the inner and ideological changes of the characters in the play, i.e. to turn the invisible and insensible abstract emotions and psychological states into visible and sensible concrete images - faces.

The Sichuan Opera Face Changing is a kind of stunt used in the art of Sichuan Opera to portray characters. It is a romanticized technique to reveal the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters in the play.

When it comes to face-changing, it is necessary to go back to Sichuan Opera first. It is said that the Qing Dynasty Qianlong, Jiaqing years, every year at the time of festivals, in the Sichuan townships and villages at the pier at the forest of temples will be set up to celebrate the stage, and over time, the Sichuan Opera on the streets and lanes and alleys in the gradual development of the climate.

The Qing Dynasty "two lakes filled Sichuan", for the culture of Shu brought many new elements, Kun, high, Hu, play, lights, all the cavity troupe convergence into the major cities of Sichuan in the wine shop in the neighborhood, raw, Dan, net, the end of the clowns with the debut of the teahouse on the stage, and over time to form a **** with the same style, collectively referred to as the " Sichuan Opera ", and only after that, it was called the " Chuan opera", before being renamed "Chuan opera".