Peking Opera face painting is divided into:
1, whole face: one color is the main color to exaggerate the skin color, and then outline the eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth and detailed facial muscle lines.
2, three tile face: is the whole face on the basis of further exaggeration of the eyebrows, eyes, nose drawing piece, with lines outlined two eyebrows, a nose nest.
3. Cross Gate Face: Developed from the Three Tiles Face, the main color bar and the eye sockets form a "ten" character, characterized by narrowing down the three colors into a single color bar, which is hooked all the way from the moon gate to below the nose, and is used to symbolize the character of the character.
4, six points face: also known as the "old face", characterized by the main color of the brain door will be reduced to a color bar, exaggerated eyebrow shape, white eyebrow shape accounted for four-tenths of the main color accounted for six-tenths.
5, broken flower face: from the "flower three tile face" evolved, retaining the main color, other parts of the secondary colors to add hook pattern, colorful, diverse compositions and fine lines.
6, crooked face: mainly used to exaggerate the accomplices of the hitmen's features are not correct, ugly, characterized by asymmetrical hook, giving a sense of crooked.
7, monk face: characterized by the waist of the eye sockets flower nose nest flower mouth fork, the brain hook a Sherry beads round light or nine points, indicating that the Buddhist precepts.
8, the eunuch face: eunuch face dedicated to the performance of trespassing power to harm the eunuchs, the color is only red and white two, the form is similar to the "whole face" and "three tile face", just exaggerated eunuchs features.
9, Yuanbao face: no treasure face of the brain and face of different colors, the shape of the Yuanbao, so it is called "Yuanbao face".
10, hieroglyphic face: generally used in mythological plays, the composition and color are from the image of each elf gods and monsters features, no fixed spectrum.
11, fairy face: from the "whole face", "three tiles" development, are used to show the face of God, Buddha, composition taken from the Buddha. Mainly in gold and silver, or in the secondary colors added to hook gold and silver lines and color blocks, to show the sacred and majestic.
12, clown face: also known as "three flowers face" or "small flowers face", characterized by the center of the bridge of the nose to smear a white "tofu block", using caricature techniques to show the character's comedic features. The comedic character of the character is expressed in a caricature of the character.
13, the small demon face: the performance of the mythological theater of the generals and other small demons and other roles.
14. Hero Face: It is not the face of a prominent character, but the face of a fighter who plays the role of a teacher of fists and sticks and participates in martial arts fights.
Expanded
Face originated in the mask, the face will be painted directly on the face, while the mask will be painted or cast in something else on top of the graphic and then worn on the face, in ancient China, the rituals have witch dance and Nuo dance, the dancers often wear masks. Longer history of Chinese opera types such as Han opera, Qinqiang, Kunqu, Peking Opera, etc. have face masks. Its role is:
1, through the shape of the face and color, pattern, can be the beginning of the character to tell the admirer the character traits and moral and ethical characteristics. Such a division makes the character image on the stage clear and understandable, and the admirer does not have to guess, reason and judge.
2, the role of the face, in addition to indicating the character, but also imply a variety of circumstances of the role, such as Xiang Yu's eyes painted "crying", implying that his tragic end, Bao Gong frowning implies that he was thinking hard about worrying about the Monkey King monkey-shaped face implies that he was originally a monkey.
3, another role is the "distance", the psychological distance between the play and the audience. The picture of the face so that the audience can not distinguish the original face of the actor, and with the life of the real character looks very different, like wearing a mask. This makes the audience not easy to enter the play to avoid hallucinations, but concentrate on aesthetics and appreciation.
4. In addition, the "big flower face" and the "handsome dress" are on the stage at the same time, forming a sharp contrast, which emphasizes the handsome appearance of the male and the female and the grotesque appearance of the male and the female.
5, the face of the heavy, distinctive oil and a variety of patterns, coupled with the purity of the line "roar" of the rough voice, the formation of a strong artistic stimulus to the audience to play a role in the excitement, catharsis and vibration.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Peking Opera Facial Scenery
Baidu Encyclopedia - Facial Scenery