What does facial makeup mean in Beijing opera?

The significance of facial makeup color in Peking Opera;

1, red face: a symbol of loyalty, frankness and blood.

2, black face: both serious personality, unsmiling, neutral, representing fierce wisdom.

3, white face: showing treachery and suspicion, with derogatory meaning, representing fierceness.

4. Yellow-faced woman: brave and violent.

5, blue face: the performance of straightforward personality.

6, purple face: solemn and steady performance, full of sense of justice.

7. Gold face: a symbol of power and solemnity, showing the role of a fairy.

8, silver face: showing treachery, doubt or majesty, showing the role of ghosts or gods.

9, green face: brave, reckless, impulsive.

Extended data:

The color painting methods of Peking Opera facial makeup are basically divided into three categories: rubbing face, wiping face and hooking face.

The initial function of Facebook is only to exaggerate the five senses and facial texture of the characters in the play, and to express their personality, psychology and physical characteristics in an exaggerated way, thus serving the whole plot of the play.

After the development of Facebook, from simple to complex, from coarse to fine, from surface to inside, from shallow to deep, Facebook itself has gradually become a graphic art with national characteristics and human faces as its means of expression.

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