Facebook has a long history. Facial makeup originated from masks, which draw figures directly on the face, while masks draw or cast figures on other things and then stick them on the face. In ancient China, there were witch dances and Nuo dances in sacrificial activities, and dancers often wore masks. Among the cultural relics unearthed in Sanxingdui, an ancient Shu place north of Chengdu, Sichuan, there are dozens of bronze masks, which were used by Yu Fu, an ancient Shu king, to hold sacrificial ceremonies 4000 years ago. Lan Ling, a warrior of the Northern Qi Dynasty, is slender, respectful, fierce and skilled in martial arts, but looks like a beautiful woman. He wore a mask to help him in the battle. In the Tang Dynasty song and dance "The Warrior Lanling Ensemble", the actor who plays the Warrior Lanling should wear a mask. This may be the origin of facial makeup in drama.

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In ancient times, there were simple symbols on masks, "concept symbols" and "emoticons", which were used to express a certain concept or expression. In the play, these symbols are painted directly on the face to express more complex and rich thoughts and expressions. There was a record of "painting faces" in the Tang Dynasty. Meng Jiao wrote in Xian Ge Xing: "A thin ghost paints his face but his teeth are white", which shows that the image of ghosts and gods is expressed by painting his face. The sixth volume of Qing Zhi of the Northern Gate Society of Song and Xu Dynasties records that two courtiers used "black powder as the best play" and they confused the emperor with vulgar words. In the Song Dynasty, "painting" was divided into "net" and "face", and painting was also very simple. Draw a white nose and red eye circle for the purpose of "funny". Because in the Song Dynasty's zaju, Ke Opera accounted for a large proportion. Yuan Zaju was very popular in the Yuan Dynasty. In the large-scale mural "Dou Xiu, a loyal and righteous man, works here", the spectrum of "full face" appears in the front figures of Yuan Zaju, which breaks through the basic style of white background and black line in the past and has a certain personality color.

The Ming Dynasty has been the world where Kunqu Opera performed legendary dramas, with rich performances and fine division of labor, which can be divided into pure (big face), deputy pure (two faces) and ugly (three faces). Both clean and ugly draw faces, and each character has a special score. Its background color is mostly designed according to the description in rap literature or the actor's own imagination. For example, Guan Yu's background color is red, while Bao Gong's background color is black. Its basic spectrum is an exaggerated eyebrow-eye part. In the Ming dynasty, people kept their hair and painted their faces below their foreheads. In the Qing dynasty, people braided their hair, shaved their heads above their foreheads and painted their faces above their foreheads. The scale of the model has also changed. Compared with the Ming dynasty, facial makeup is complex and simple, with the same background color. In the mid-Qing Dynasty, local operas rose, and the clean and ugly faces varied greatly from place to place, with obvious local characteristics and folk art flavor. There are about 300 kinds of local operas, most of which rose after18th century. With the prosperity of local operas, the number of characters in the repertoire is increasing and the division of labor is becoming more and more detailed. In addition to positive network and negative network, Jason Wu is added to the network cable. The colors are blue, green, yellow, gray and orange.