What do black face, red face, blue face and white face mean in Beijing Opera?

It symbolizes a serious and unsmiling character, neutral and represents fierce wisdom. For example, Bao Zheng in Bao Gong's play is a rotten face.

2, red face

Generally, it symbolizes loyal, honest, frank and bloody people. For example, Guan Yu in The Three Kingdoms Opera is the representative role of red face.

Only a part of the red face is ironic, indicating that it is a fake good man.

3. Blue face

A symbol of integrity and unruly characters, such as Doulton in comics.

4. White face

Symbolizing treacherous and suspicious characters, most of them contain derogatory meanings, representing fierceness, such as Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms Opera.

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After the founding of New China, the foreign exchange of Peking Opera was mainly organized by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, so Peking Opera served as the cultural ambassador of the country for foreign exchange.

In modern times, China has sent Beijing Opera Troupe to visit and perform all over the world for many times. Among them, Mei Lanfang visited the Soviet Union for three consecutive times on 1952, 1957 and 1960, and visited Japan for the third time on 1956, which won great honor for China's traditional culture overseas.

Mei Lanfang's superb performance in Peking Opera not only made the world sit up and take notice of China's "national quintessence"-Peking Opera, but also had a far-reaching impact on Japanese and European and American drama and film art. Even stanislavski and Brecht, great dramatists, involuntarily absorbed the essence of Mei Lanfang's performing arts in their creation.

20 18 The 14th "Peace Cup" Chinese Peking Opera Fans Invitational Tournament was held. After the selection and recommendation of each district, more than 2,000 fans from mainland China, Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province, the United States, Canada, Germany, France, New Zealand and Australia signed up for the competition, and 254 fans entered the semi-finals, eventually producing 102 excellent players.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Peking Opera