What are the types of opera clothes?

Opera clothes mainly refer to python, leaning, cape, pleats and other opera costumes.

From the color, there are upper five colors, lower five colors: "upper five colors", refers to yellow, red, green, white, black; "lower five colors" refers to purple, orchid, pink, lake, bronze or incense color.

From the material, the early use of tweed, cloth, and later mainly with satin, silk, crepe and other silk fabrics.

The decorations on the costumes are mainly dragons, phoenixes, birds, animals, insects, fish, flowers, clouds, water, eight treasures, etc.; even if the same style also has different postures, such as the "dragon" has a sitting, scattered, swimming, group of points; "water" has a standing water, lying water.

Most of the Beijing opera costumes are more ornate, Kunqu costumes are loose but fit, the color is more elegant, women have been light-colored, water-sleeved mostly, headdresses are extremely expensive, a set of point cui to a few million yuan, the Yu opera and Cantonese opera, Huangmei Opera and other costumes compared to the Beijing opera and Kunqu are more simple, Yueju opera costumes and Kunqu have a trace of similarity