Peking Opera Face Painting Which is the Face Painting of the Young Sheng?

The make-up of the minor, major and minor roles in Peking Opera is known as "Junzheng" (俊扮), also known as "Suifang" (素面) or "Jiemian" (洁面), as opposed to "Huaifang" (花脸) or "Huamian" (花面), which are the minor and minor faces of the Jing and Chou.

Small sheng in Beijing opera are playing young men, such as Lu Bu, Zhou Yu, Luo Cheng and so on, which is why people often say "handsome small sheng". Handsome dressing is the beautifying make-up of the opera. It is characterized by a slight application of colored ink to achieve a beautifying effect. Early opera, Dan make-up are lighter, which is with the opera more in the daytime performance, relying on natural light illumination. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the rise of the new stage, the use of electric lighting, the stage light from dark to bright, the color of the make-up will be correspondingly aggravated and thickened. The following picture is Luo Cheng's costume.