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Why do Japanese geisha paint their faces white?
It stands for "female mask".

Kabuki was born in 1603. Kabuki at that time was not an art of singing, dancing and acting, nor was it a dance in which women disguised as men, but it was a simple story with religious overtones. From "street women (prostitutes) kabuki" to "many kabuki", it finally developed into the prototype of kabuki "Yelang Kabuki" and gradually became a pure kabuki art performed by male actors. Kabuki has since changed the focus of confusing the audience with beauty, turned to acting, and gradually developed into a pure performing art performed by male actors. A masculine man wants to play a gentle woman. Physical differences can be covered by clothes and figure, and rough voices can also be conveyed by sharp voices. Obviously, the facial differences must be made with thick white powder and feminine makeup, and the face will present a "female mask"!