Peking Opera Flower Face is divided into several categories

I. Mainly divided into five categories, the relevant explanations are as follows:

Flower face in the face and divided into big flower face, copper hammer flower face, rack flower face, martial arts flower face, wrestling flower face ...... Peking Opera Flower Face face Dahua face is the common name of the positive net, the past talk about the big flower face more to the copper hammer flower face refers to the more singing, more heavy drama, the past rack flower face of the The status is low, due to the efforts of several generations of flower face artists to promote the flower face old-timers Mu Fengshan, Liu Yongchun, Qian Jinfu, especially Huang Runfu, Jin Shaoshan, Hao Shoushen, Hou Xirui, Yuan Shihai and other predecessors of the efforts, has raised the status of the frame flower face, Mr. Yuan Shihai unremitting efforts, and the Peking Opera master Li Shaochun successively co-starred in the "Generals and Harmony", "Wild Boar Forest", "Rattlesnake", and even more to the main frame flower face The brass hammer singing of the frame flower face was formed and passed down by the art of Hao Pai. When I entered the Beijing Theatre School, I was taught by Mr. Hao Shoushen, and his years of experience - the bronze hammer singing of the Hua-face frame - was reflected in my studies. The bronze hammer foundation of the plays such as "Dabao Guo", "Exploring the Imperial Tomb", "Entering the Palace", "Encountering the Empress", "Fighting the Dragon Robe", "The Royal Orchard", "Shatuo Guo", "Breaking the Mijian" and so on, laid the foundation for the performances of the characters of the frame opera, Zhang Fei's "Wakouguan", Niu Gao's "Niu Gao Lowering the Book", Jiao Zan's "Mukozai", Cao Cao's "Catching and Releasing the Cao", and Dou Erdun's "Stealing the Imperial Horse", which enriched and perfected the art of the frame Hua Face. The art of the frame flower face was enriched and perfected. The four skills and five methods are the necessary program lessons for the Peking Opera line, and the same goes for the Huafang line. The training is the same, but the use of the treatment is not the same.

Two, additional explanation of the flower face:

Peking Opera flower face is a special form of expression that can not be replaced by other roles, is a spectrum of the opera actor's facial make-up, from the Tang Dynasty music and dance "on behalf of the face" worn by the mask gradually evolved. Actors use a variety of colors in the face sketched into a certain pattern, to show the character's personality, features or other characteristics. Generally, red represents loyalty and courage, such as "Guan Yu"; black represents roughness and straightforwardness, such as "Zhang Fei"; white represents treachery and evil, such as "Cao Cao". A variety of specific face, the audience a look at the face, that is, know why its people, face is a special means of characterization. The face is an important part of the study of flower face line, which hook face is also a merit, to use the brush dipped in color, outlined in the mirror, first sketched eyebrows, the second sketched eye sockets, nose nests, corners of the mouth and all the face, and then sketched face lines.