Basic introduction of Tibetan opera masks

Mainly used in various folk performance activities. Compared with religious masks, Tibetan opera masks have a strong secular tendency and folk colors. The subjects of performance mainly include characters, deities and animals in historical stories and myths. Different mask colors symbolize different role characteristics, such as crimson symbolizes the king, light red on behalf of the minister, yellow symbolizes the living Buddha, blue on behalf of justice, bravery, for the warrior phase, and half-black and half-white symbolizes the two-faced and so on. Tibetan opera performances, general make-up is relatively simple, in addition to wearing masks, the other is the general powder and red fat, no complex face. From the mask modeling and color tone on the distinction between the character character of good, evil, loyalty, treachery.

Tibetan opera actor's facial make-up, one is the face painted on the face, the other is wearing a mask. Mask, known as Ba in Tibetan, is a unique means of facial make-up in Tibetan opera art. As early as in the Tubo period, the Benzo culture rituals performed in the rituals of the Shi Feng dance, animal dance, such as the hundred skills and acrobatics, masks were used to disguise the means. Later, due to religious development, the monk Lotus Sang according to the Buddha Shi Ying Mouni on the four Buddhist Tantric doctrine of the healing yoga, supreme yoga in a section of the Vajra Dance (the other two for: the Ministry, the Ministry of the line), the organization of jumping god puja.

The Tofun dance was then combined with the Vajra dance, giving rise to the masks worn during the dance. In the 14th century A.D., the monk Tangdong Jiebu raised funds to build bridges and roads, and created the Tibetan opera, which was loved by the Tibetan people. Later, Tibetan opera performers regarded him as the originator of Tibetan opera, and made a white goatskin mask with white hair and white beard according to his own face as a model. The production of Tibetan opera masks, so that the ancient Tibetan mask art from the mysterious religious world into a new wider art world.

Tibetan opera masks are divided into wenba masks, character masks and animal masks.