What are the characteristics and significance of masks?

"Facebook" refers to the colorful makeup on the actors' faces in China's traditional dramas. This kind of facial makeup is mainly used for clean (face painting) and ugly (clown). It has a certain format in form, color and type. A professional audience can tell whether the character is a hero or a bad guy, smart or stupid, and likes or hates Facebook. The charming facial makeup of Peking Opera occupies a special position in the numerous facial makeup of China's plays. Peking Opera facial makeup is famous for its symbolism and exaggeration. It uses exaggerated and distorted graphics to express the character characteristics of the role. Eyes, foreheads and cheeks are usually painted as wings of bats, butterflies or swallows, with exaggerated mouths and noses to create the required facial effects.

Classification of Facebook:

Facial makeup can be divided into four basic types according to coloring methods: rubbing, hooking, wiping and breaking.

Rub your face: dignified and powerful, with overall color as the main color, which is achieved by aggravating the texture of the five senses. This is a very old form of facial makeup.

Hook surface: colorful, rich in patterns, complex and beautiful, colorful, and some are also gold-plated and silver-plated, which is gorgeous.

Wipe your face: There are many light colors, which means that your face should be powdered, and you can't show your true colors, highlighting the nature of treacherous bad guys.

Disfigurement: The face is asymmetrical, and the left and right sides are different. It describes a face or meaning that is uglier than a villain.

According to the arrangement of Facebook, Facebook is divided into the following four types:

Full face: the most primitive form of facial makeup, which divides the face into two parts: forehead and face with double eyebrows.

Three-tile face: on the basis of the whole face, divide the face into two masks with the nose and mouth.

Flower three-tile face: Artistic the boundary edge of three-tile face, and add various patterns of facial makeup.

Broken surface: a variant of three-tile surface, whose boundary edge is very flowery, which destroys the original outline.

Color of Facebook:

Beijing opera facial makeup is very particular about color, but it seems that colorful facial makeup details appear for a reason, not just to look good. Draw colors with different meanings with different patterns, and the characters are personalized.

The general color meaning of Facebook is:

Red is generally: brave, just, mighty and solemn, and is mostly used for bloody people. Such as Guan Yu.

Others: satire, which means false good people.

Special case: the old man shows that the young red light is still there; Bad guys do good things.

Brown and pink: elderly people who behave fairly uprightly.

Black in general: straightforward and resolute, brave and intelligent. Show impartiality, such as Bao Gong; Showing irritability, recklessness and frankness, such as Zhang Fei.

Others: Yin in Yin and Yang, used for ghosts. Black skin or ugly face.

General: sinister and treacherous; Willful.

Others: He Ga, eunuch mask; Indicates that the old man is old,

Purple is between black and red,

General: Upright and upright, don't flatter the powerful. Zhuan Xu in Fishbone Sword, Chang Yuchun in Wulin, Xu Zhaoyan in Daguobao,

Others: bad complexion, ugly. Pang Tong's purple face in Chai Sang's mouth means that he is ugly.

Manager Huang: Brave and good at fighting, Yuwen Chengdou in the wheel war, Yang Yao in Dongting Lake.

Others: violence and cruelty, The Fishbone Sword, Ji Liao, The Battle of Wancheng, Dian Wei.

Like gold and silver: the golden light and solemnity of the fairy Lord. Erlang God, the leopard of Hongmei Mountain, attacked Hui Jin of Tongguan.

Others: the heroic and invincible general, the dignity used to help increase face, the martial arts of Lager, and Li Yuanba of Siping Mountain.

Silver fairy, monster.

Green overall: brave, reckless and irritable. It has a similar meaning to bad face,

Others: outlaws.

Blue and green have similar meanings on Facebook, both of which are extensions of black.

General: strong. "Take Luoyang" Ma Wu

Others: insidious. Xie Hu from Xuejiawo, Jiao Zhenyuan from Jianfeng Mountain, and Doulton in a chain.

White in general: insidious, cunning and insidious. Like Zhao Gao.

Facebook mode:

Facial patterns are very rich, generally divided into forehead, eyebrow, orbit, nasal fossa, mouth fork and floor of mouth. The mode of each part is different, regular and inconclusive, such as:

Bao Zheng has a white crescent on his black forehead, which means he is honest.

Meng Liang has a red gourd on his forehead, indicating that he likes drinking.

Wen Zhong and Yang Jian painted three eyes, which originated from classical legends.

Genies, sand gods and leopards are multifaceted, highlighting their ghostly characteristics.

Yang has a traditional "tiger" on his forehead, which shows that he is brave and invincible.

Zhao Kuangyin's dragon eyebrows are the real dragon emperor.

There is a lightning pattern on Lei Gong's face.

Jiang Wei painted a picture of Yin and Yang on his forehead, indicating a clever plan.

Xia Houdun's eye socket was injured by an arrow, so he drew a red dot on it.

Doulton, Dian Wei and others all have their best weapon patterns on their faces.

Wang drew a toad, indicating that it was the reincarnation of a water beast.

Zhao Gongming painted on money to show that he was a god of wealth.

The Big Dipper drew a picture of seven stars on his forehead. ...

Facebook makeup artist

Facebook has a strong artistic quality, and it is also very skillful. Like painting and calligraphy, the pen should be accurate and powerful, the rendering should be thoughtful, and the hook should be as precious as ink in order to draw vividly and lovely. ...

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The color application of Facebook has certain content and significance, and it is the main factor to express the character.

Red: It symbolizes loyalty, justice, strength and solemnity, and is often used for bloody figures. Such as Guan Yu.

Purple: Showing courage, fortitude, integrity, firmness and boldness. Such as Yang, etc.

Black: showing impartiality, such as Bao Gong; Showing irritability, recklessness and frankness, such as Zhang Fei.

Bai: Most of them are sinister and have ulterior motives. Like Zhao Gao.

Yellow: generally shows violent character. For example, Lian Po is in Nanyang Tian.

Brown and pink: elderly people who behave fairly uprightly.

Gold and silver: used for Buddha statues, immortals and other figures, such as Tathagata and Erlang God. Sometimes it is also used for some goblins with more mana.

Clear angle purple face: purple is between black and red, and purple face is often used for upright and dignified people and honest and kind people. For example, Zhuan Xu in the Fish Intestine Sword, Chang Yuchun in Wu Kechang and Xu in the Great Country Bao, some characters are described as purple faces in novels or folk oral literature, so they use purple faces, such as Pu Tiandiao in Evil Tiger Village, Fei Degong in Zhaoxian Town and Wei Yan in Zhanchangsha. Some characters use purple faces to distinguish them from other characters on the same stage. For example, the Big Dipper in Hundred Days Map looks terrible compared with the old southern bucket, while Pang Tong in Chai Sangkou uses a purple face to express its ugly appearance.

Clear angle pink face: pink face generally symbolizes old red-faced figures, such as Su Xian in Taking Luoyang, Yuan Shao in Panhe War and Hua in Sijie Village.

Green face: green face generally means courage and violence, which has similar meaning to black face. Some bandits who regard mountains as kings use green faces. For example, the green-faced tiger in Baishuitan, the story of the Green Ding, the leopard in Lost Son and Madness, and the success of Xiang Ma Zhuan.

Clear angle and blue face: blue generally means strong and insidious. On Facebook, blue and green have similar meanings, both of which are extensions of black, indicating powerful figures, such as Ma Wu in Luo Yang, Xie Hu in Xuejiawo, Jiao Zhenyuan in Jianfeng Mountain and Dou Erdun in Lianhuan.

Yellow face with clear corners: Yellow face symbolizes the bravery and cruelty of characters, such as Yuwen Chengdou in the wheel war and Yang Yao in Dongting Lake, which shows the cruelty and cruelty of characters, such as Ji Liao in the fishbone sword and Dian Wei in the Wancheng War.

Gold and Silver Faces with Clear Corners: Gold and silver are widely used in the facial makeup of supernatural beings, showing that the fairy faces are bright in cash and the ghost faces are green in fangs, such as Yang Jian in An Tianhui, bottomless pit, Flat Peach Blossom Club, and the golden comb in Leopard in Hongmei Mountain and Attack on Tongguan. Some generals also use gold to show their bravery and invincibility, which is used to help increase the prestige of Facebook, such as the golden martial arts of pulling pulleys and Li Yuanba of Siping Mountain. Speaking of Elf Facebook, it needs to be emphasized here that famous actors of all ages are opposed to the grotesque or horrible portraits of Elf Facebook, and they are not in favor of drawing snakes, scorpions, centipedes and other gloomy shapes on Facebook. They believe that this not only undermines the artistic principle of stage beauty.

Tile gray face and ochre face: Tile gray and blue have similar meanings in the application of Facebook. Tile gray face is like Urihei in Luhua River, and ochre and purple have similar meanings, such as the old man under the moon in Colorful Loupei and the mystery in Tielongshan.

Clear angle and light blue face: light blue means between blue and green. For example, Zhou Cang hooked a pale blue forehead in Woniu Mountain and Single Knife Meeting, and Zhou Cang used a golden forehead in Qingshishan to show that he became a god after death.

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