Peking Opera face painting colors represent characters and personalities

The colors of Peking Opera face paint represent the characters and their personalities as follows:

1. Red: Red is one of the most common colors in Peking Opera face paint, which represents the character of loyalty, heroism, justice and passion. Red face painting is mostly for positive characters.

2, yellow: yellow face represents the character of violent, fierce and warlike, such as Lian Po in Spring and Autumn Period, the Three Kingdoms general Dian Wei, etc.; it also has the meaning of pugnacious, ferocious and cruel.

3, white: white is the most contrasting color in the Peking Opera face painting, which represents a sinister, treacherous, suspicious and headstrong character. White faces are mostly antagonists.

4, blue: blue face represents unruly, valor, such as the Qing Dynasty, the theft of the imperial horse of the anti-Qing warrior Duo Erdun, one of the twenty-eight generals of the Eastern Han Dynasty Yuntai Ma Wu. Blue faces are mostly upright and cunning.

5, gold: gold face indicates mysterious, mighty, solemn, generally are immortal characters.

Peking Opera Face Symbolism:

Peking Opera is a representative of traditional Chinese opera, which takes singing, reciting, acting and fighting as its main means of expression, and through music, dance, martial arts, make-up and other forms of art, it shows many classic stories and characters in Chinese history.

The most distinctive feature of Peking Opera is face painting, which is a special method of make-up that expresses the character's personality, identity, emotions and other characteristics by drawing different colors and patterns on the actor's face.

Peking Opera face painting can be regarded as one of the essences of traditional Chinese culture, with its rich colors and symbolism, showing people the characteristics and vividness of ancient Chinese characters, which is best embodied and inherited in Peking Opera, showing people different characters and faces, and allowing people to understand and appreciate the diversity and kernel of beauty of Chinese culture in a deeper way.