Is face-changing in Sichuan opera a traditional Chinese art, or is it a Japanese tradition?

According to Mr. Wang Daozheng, a Sichuan opera artist who is known as the "King of Face Changing" in Sichuan opera, the face-changing stunt arose in the 1930s, and was first used in the traditional opera "Returning to the Righteousness House", in which a chivalrous man named Bei Rong changed his face several times for the sake of saving people's lives, and since then, this novel way of performance has been carried on. In the play "The Legend of the White Snake", the face-changing actors even interpreted Fahai's infinite power and changes to the fullest. Through the exploration of generations of face-changers, stunt face-changing has developed to its present level. According to Wang Daozheng, it is precisely because face-changing is a wealth left behind by the old generation of artists who have been groping for it that successive generations of face-changers have consciously abided by the rule that face-changing should be kept secret. In the nineties before, almost no other kind of theater to steal learned the Sichuan opera stunts

Sichuan opera since a long time ago is our country's culture and art, for the Mr. Lin's statement, should cause the opera world fans ticket enthusiasts strong opposition