Red face: The red color in Peking Opera masks represents loyal and heroic figures, such as Guan Yu. Red faces are generally brave, chivalrous and bloody positive characters.
Black face: In Peking Opera facial makeup, black generally represents upright, selfless and upright people, such as Bao Zheng. At the same time, black facial makeup is also a symbol of strength, ruggedness and boldness, such as Zhang Fei, a famous soldier of the Three Kingdoms.
White face: White represents the sinister and treacherous characters in Peking Opera facial makeup. Most of the white makeup is cunning, insidious, headstrong and other villains, such as the traitor Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms and Yan Song in the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the elderly and eunuchs also use white masks.
Yellow-faced woman: Yellow represents vicious and cruel characters in Peking Opera masks, such as Dian Wei. Yellow facial makeup also represents grumpy, brave and good at fighting, such as Lian Po in the Spring and Autumn Period. There are also tough, fierce and cruel meanings, such as Yuwen Chengdou in the Sui Dynasty and Yang Yao, the rebel leader in the Song Dynasty.
Blue face: The blue face represents Dou Erdun, an anti-Qing righteous man who was defiant and brave, and Ma Wu, one of the 28 generals of Yuntai in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Purple face:? Purple represents the sedate characters in Peking Opera masks, such as Chang Yuchun. In addition, purple facial makeup also means solemnity and justice, such as Zhuan Xu, a famous assassin in the Qin Dynasty, and Zhang He, a famous star of the Three Kingdoms.
Pink: Pink in Peking Opera masks represents old and faithful characters, such as Lian Po.
Golden face: Golden face represents mystery, strength and solemnity, and is generally a fairy figure, such as Sakyamuni and Erlang God.
Green face: Green face shows courage and recklessness, such as some outlaws.
Silver face: Silver facial makeup is generally the image of chaotic gods in Machamp, such as goblins and monsters.
Facial painting color lane:
There are four basic types of facial expression coloring: rubbing, hooking, wiping and breaking;
Rub your face: rub the color all over your face with your fingers, plus eyebrows and facial texture contours, which is a realistic mask. Guan Yu's red face in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a Peking Opera, is designed according to the face of Guan Yu described in novels and ballads, which indicates that Guan Yu's face is like a heavy jujube, a silkworm eyebrow, a single phoenix eye and seven-star hemorrhoids.
Hook the face: Draw eyebrows and lines with a brush dipped in color, fill the face color, and become a colorful pattern. Some are gold-plated and silver-plated, gorgeous and dazzling. The leopard, the leopard, in the The Journey to the West of Peking Opera is a complicated painted face, with a face covered with gold, a leopard head pattern on his forehead and a money pattern on his face, which is used to express the fierceness of the leopard.
Wipe one's face: paint all or part of one's face white with a brush dipped in white powder, indicating that such a person does not show his true colors. It's a fake face, also called "pink face". Cao Cao in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a hero in Beijing Opera, with a big white face and a white face.
Broken face: refers to the mask with asymmetric left and right graphics. Three kinds of faces are disfigured: rubbing, hooking and rubbing. It is a mask with derogatory meaning. In novels and ballads, it is said that Zheng Ziming, the founding hero of the early Song Dynasty, has ugly eyes, and Zheng Ziming is a typical figure who uses broken faces in Beijing opera.