As a treasure of China's art, what cultural connotations does Peking Opera mask contain?

Facebook uses colors and lines to form various patterns to symbolize the character and quality of the characters.

The roots of Facebook are summarized by many scholars as the following two sources:

1, the mask of sacrificial dance said: It originated from the mask used in ancient festivals, like the exorcism dance on expelling heroes and heroes, and used the mask of fierce ning to highlight the terrible image of the devil;

2. Music and dance mask: According to historical legend, Lan Ling, a warrior of the Northern Qi Dynasty, had a beautiful face. He wore a powerful mask to subdue the enemy in the battle.

Later, because it was unnatural to wear a mask on the stage, and it was impossible to manipulate facial muscles and eyes to express real people's emotions, I gradually gave up the mask, so I developed Facebook instead of the mask to improve the dramatic function of facial makeup.

The role of Facebook can be summarized as four points:

Suggest individuality, introduce characteristics, praise and criticize good and evil, and distinguish beauty from ugliness.

It can be basically divided into ten categories: red, white, black, yellow, blue (cyan), green, purple, pink (gray), gold and silver.

1, red: loyalty, honest and frank, once in America, loyalty and passion for the country, such as Guan Yu, Yue Fei, Jiang Wei, Chang Yuchun, Uncle Ying Kao, Zhao Kuangyin, Wu Han and Guan Sheng.

2. White: refers to treachery, malice, hiding the knife in the smile and scheming, such as Cao Cao, Qin Gui, Zhao Gao, Dong Zhuo, Wei Zhongxian, Yan Song and Sima Yi.

3. Black represents integrity, recklessness, courage and elegance, such as Bao Zheng, Zhang Fei, Xiang Yu and Li Kui jy.

4. Yellow: indicates fierceness and cruelty, courage and scheming, such as Dian Wei and Yuwen Chengdou.

5. Blue (cyan): refers to neutral, fierce, grumpy and rebellious heroes, such as, Cheng, Doulton and Ma Wu.

6. Green: indicates monsters, such as scorpion essence.

7. Purple: It means solemnity, steadiness and a sense of justice, such as Zhuan Xu, Z Ryan and Jing Ke.

8. Pink (grey): it means old, weak and weak, such as Huang Zhong, Yan Yan and Lian Po.

9. Gold and silver: mysterious, noble and solemn, representing demon gods and buddhas. Such as Tathagata and the Monkey King.

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Artistic feature

The artistic features of Peking Opera facial makeup are mainly manifested in three aspects: deformation, vividness and implication.

Facial makeup is a kind of patterned makeup art, although it has a certain basis of life, it will inevitably be deformed when expressing skin color, facial organs and muscle texture. The deformation of Facebook includes two meanings, one is to leave the shape, the other is to take the shape. Shape retention is not limited to the natural form of life, but dares to exaggerate and modify; Shape-taking is to pay attention to rules and regulations, and skillfully organize and summarize the colors and lines of some important parts of the face into certain shapes and patterns.

It is a common technique to achieve the image through shaping, and shaping has a higher purpose, that is, relying on God; Be personalized. Facebook's personality is not to draw all the characters on the face. The independence and complexity of a character's personality can only be fully demonstrated through performance in the development of the plot;

The personalization of Facebook is to show the basic air that conforms to the character's personality, and it is the comprehensive effect of Facebook's colors and patterns. Because Facebook is patterned, it is an advantage to express a certain facial expression very vividly and strongly. However, the clearer a facial expression is, the less likely it is to show a significant change in the facial expression of a person on the same Facebook page, which also brings its limitations.

Although the actor's facial expression can change the air of Facebook, it can't completely break through this limitation. This is the basic reason why it is impossible for a character in Peking Opera facial makeup to have only one hook. Zhang Fei's smiling face hooked by money is very suitable for Lu Hua Dang; In War Horse Super, Shang emphasized that Zhang Fei's powerful hook method was more appropriate.

Facebook is a combination of vividness and subtlety. When actors shape Facebook, they are always permeated with their aesthetic evaluation of the characters in the play. The exaggeration and modification of facial makeup not only make the characters look bright, but also make the creator's ideological tendency clear. It is also an important feature of Facebook art to tolerate criticism and distinguish between good and evil, and the implication is often inseparable from form.

Facebook has many forms, not only decorative techniques, but also symbolic techniques, which are also symbols of some essential aspects of this character. The creative process of Facebook often contains strong elements of folk imagination. Imagination itself has positive and negative points, and it will also be reflected in the symbolism of Facebook, which needs to be identified.

Therefore, it is one of the important links to improve the performing arts to correctly distinguish the essence, coarseness, beauty and evil in the face book, take its essence and discard its dross.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Peking Opera Mask