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What are the Peking Opera masks? What do they stand for?

Peking Opera facial makeup means

The red face symbolizes loyalty, honest and frank and blood, such as Guan Yu in "The Three Kingdoms Opera" and Wu Han in "Cutting the Classrooms".

others: ironic, indicating a false good man. Guan Yu (red face)

The black face shows both seriousness and unsmiling, such as Bao Zheng in Bao Gong Opera; It also symbolizes power, rudeness and boldness, such as Zhang Fei in the Three Kingdoms Opera and likui jy in the Water Margin Opera.

other: indicates yin in yin and yang, and is used for ghosts. Dark skin or ugly face.

Zhang Fei (butterfly face with black cross)

The white face shows treachery and suspicion, such as Cao Cao in "The Three Kingdoms Opera" and Yan Song in "Fighting Yan Song".

Cao Cao (with a white face)

The blue face shows his upright and defiant personality, such as Ma Wu in "Going to the Tiantai" and Douerdun in "Lianhuan".

Douerdun (blue flower with three tiles)

The purple face is solemn, steady and full of sense of justice, such as Xu Yanzhao in Second Palace and Zhuan Zhu in Fishbone Sword.

others: pale and ugly.

Zhang He (purple three-tile face)

The golden face symbolizes power and solemnity, and shows the role of a fairy. Such as: Tathagata and Erlang God in Noisy Heaven.

Dapeng (golden pictographic face)

Green face

Brave and reckless.

others: outlaws.

Others include yellow face, pink face and silver face.