What is the knowledge related to Peking Opera?

Peking Opera is traditional Chinese culture, is China's national treasure, the predecessor of the Peking Opera is the Hui tune, commonly known as the spring opera, and then by the influence of folk tunes gradually developed development of the Peking Opera for the present. Peking Opera*** is divided into five main lines, namely ShengDanJingDanChou, of which the "end" line is categorized into the "Sheng" line.

Singing, reciting, acting and playing are the four artistic means of Peking Opera performance, as well as the four basic skills of Peking Opera performance. "Singing" refers to singing, "reading" refers to the musical recitation, the two complement each other, constituting one of the two major elements of song and dance Peking Opera performance art "song".

"Do" refers to danced physical movements, and "fight" refers to martial arts and tumbling skills, which are combined with each other to form "dance", one of the two major elements of song and dance-oriented Peking Opera performing art. The combination of the two constitutes one of the two main elements of the performing art of Peking Opera, namely "dance".

Categorization of Peking Opera Faces

The red face is positive, representing loyalty and courage; the black face is neutral, representing fierce intelligence; the blue face and the green face are also neutral, representing the reckless heroes; the yellow face and the white face are pejorative, representing the ferociousness and viciousness; and the gold face and the silver face are mysterious, representing the god and the demon.

The color painting method of Peking Opera face painting is basically divided into three categories: rubbing the face, wiping the face, and hooking the face. The initial role of the face painting is only to exaggerate the parts of the five senses and the texture of the face of the characters in the play, and to use exaggerated techniques to show the character, psychological and physiological features of the people in the play as a way to serve the plot of the whole play, but it developed later.

Face painting has evolved from simple to complex, from coarse to fine, from surface to interior, from shallow to deep, and has gradually become a kind of pattern art with national characteristics and with the human face as the means of expression.