Face painting is the art of makeup styling used in stage performances by traditional Chinese opera actors and actresses. Face painting varies for different professions. "Sheng", "Dan" face makeup is simple, slightly powdered, called "handsome dress", "plain face", "Clean Face". The "pure line" and "ugly line" face painting is more complex, especially the net, are heavily applied oil color, complex patterns, so called "flower face". The face painting in opera mainly refers to the face painting of Jing. The "ugly", because of their role in the theater, so on the bridge of the nose to smear a small piece of white powder, commonly known as small flower face.
Lyrics of "Singing Face Painting":
Foreigners call Beijing Opera,
I have never seen the five-color oil paint on the face,
Four Strikes on the Head, (wow......)
Beautiful, wonderful, simply OK, top of the line!
Blue-faced Durden steals the royal horse,
Red-faced Guan Gong fights in Changsha,
Yellow-faced Dian Wei, white-faced Cao Cao,
Black-faced Zhang Fei is called Chattering!
Foreigners call Beijing Opera,
Never seen the five-color oil paint on the face,
The "Four Strike Heads" are on display (wow .....).
Beautiful, wonderful, just ok top!
The purple king of heaven is holding the pagoda,
the green devil is fighting the night fork,
the golden monkey king, the silver monster,
the gray elf is laughing!
(Interlude)
Foreigners call Beijing Opera,
Never seen the five-color oil paint on the face,
"Four Strikes on the Head" is on show (wow ......).
Beautiful, wonderful, just OK, top of the line!
A clear picture of a mandarin duck tile,
a group of vivid living bodhisattva,
a stroke of the pen, a little bit of exaggeration,
a sheet of face paint beauty Jiajia! (wahaha ......)