One of the Classification of Peking Opera Facial Mask: Monk Face in Peking Opera Facial Mask

Monk face, also known as "monk face", is one of the classifications of Peking Opera facial makeup. The makeup on a monk's face is generally white, and white is the most common. Colors are generally divided into white, red, yellow, blue and so on. Maybe when it comes to monk's face, many people will think of Tang Priest and so on, but there are still differences. Let's have a look!

Monk's face, one of the masks of Peking Opera. It is characterized by waist eye socket, flower nose socket and flower mouth bifurcation, and there are Buddhist Buddhist Buddhist beads or nine-point round light on the forehead, indicating that Buddhism is ordained.

Colors are divided into white, red, yellow and blue, and white is the most common color. Rulu and Yang Yande hook their faces: Draw eyebrows and lines with a brush dipped in color, and fill their faces with color to form colorful patterns. Some are gold-plated and silver-plated, gorgeous and dazzling. The leopard, the leopard, in the The Journey to the West of Peking Opera is a complicated painted face, with a face covered with gold, a leopard head pattern on his forehead and a money pattern on his face, which is used to express the fierceness of the leopard.

The word "hook face" has two meanings: one is to represent a kind of facial makeup mentioned above, and the other is to refer to the method of sketching facial makeup on the face. You draw, wipe and break all kinds of faces on your face, all of which are sketched with a pen, and the eyebrows and lines on your face are often hooked with a pen, so the hook surface has become the floorboard for sketching faces.

Golden-eyed monk (blue-flowered monk face)

Sha Wujing (blue monk face)

Yang Wulang (white monk face)

Conclusion Everyone who likes Beijing opera is familiar with these faces, and hopes that Beijing opera or various operas can be passed down all the time. From generation to generation, don't let these traditional cultures run away.