Knowledge of Costumes and Face Painting in Beijing Opera in Chinese Theater

Face painting in traditional Chinese opera is a kind of program for actors' facial make-up. It is generally used in the two trades of jing and chou, in which most of the various characters have their own specific style and color, to highlight the character traits of the characters, and has the artistic function of "conveying praise and blame, and distinguishing between good and evil", so that the audience can look at the appearance and peep into their hearts. As a result, the face is known as the character's "mind picture".

The evolution and development of face painting is not the product of someone's imagination, but rather a complete set of artistic techniques gradually formed by opera artists in their long-term artistic practice, observation, experience and synthesis of life phenomena, as well as continuous analysis and judgment of the characters in the play, and evaluation.

Peking Opera costumes and Peking Opera performances, performances for a complete play and deal with all kinds of characters, it can be divided into a variety of lines, and through their respective lines of action, singing, playing and other means to portray the characters, the Peking Opera costumes are no exception for their own ability to portray different characters, but also divided into different categories for the coat and coat, helmet and hat, and other professional lines, and their respective vengeance and specific mission, as a professional discipline, and as a professional, and as an important part of the work, the Peking Opera costumes are also divided into different categories. And specific mission, as a profession, as for actors to create a complete character, try to see the clothing clothes box system, typology in the art of Beijing opera.

1. Peking Opera costumes since it is typology, it is dealing with different types of characters, never consider the seasonal changes, all according to the conventional type to dress up. 2. Peking Opera costumes in style varieties, a total of just forty or fifty, but it is to shape the ancient times, down to the Ming and Qing dynasties, many historical stories and thousands of characters, relying on forty or fifty styles of clothing to summarize the whole picture of China's history, which reflects the Peking Opera costumes, another feature - regardless of the dynasties. 3. Peking Opera costumes in shaping the different moods of different characters, as well as different environments, in the color, pattern processing, but also only based on the wardrobe box system of the upper five colors, the lower five colors to complete the opulent scenes and poverty-stricken situation of the characters' identities and their moods. To sum up the characteristics of the Peking Opera costumes in the dress up, can clearly see the role of the costume typology in the Peking Opera performances.