What is the meaning of the word "Flower Face" in "Singing Faces"?
"Hua face" is also known as "Jing". In Peking Opera, the Pure is mainly a male character whose personality, qualities or appearance are different from the general ones, and who has outstanding features. This kind of characters according to the character of integrity, perseverance, courage, might, roughness, recklessness, cunning, brutality, stupidity, etc.; according to the age, the elders have eighty to ninety years of age, the young people have teenagers; according to the status of the emperor and the generals, the lower common people butchers. These characters are both positive and negative, and can be described as all kinds of characters. "Pure", that is, clean and clean, and the net angle is a big flowery face, looks very unclean, unclean is the opposite of clean, and thus the name "Pure". Commonly known as the flower face, most of them play the character, quality or appearance of some special male characters, make-up with face paint, loud voice, rough style. The character, quality or appearance characteristics of these characters are expressed through specific face painting. That is, according to the character, quality, appearance of different, and red, black, white, yellow, purple, green, blue and other colors, according to a fixed pattern, facial makeup this facial makeup, called "hook face". The facial makeup is not only to emphasize the character's personality, but also to express the means of praise and blame for the character. For example, the red face is mostly to show the loyal and righteous characters, the black face is mostly to show the upright, brave or reckless characters, the white face is mostly to show the treacherous and cunning characters, the purple face is mostly to show the courageous and bold characters, the yellow face is mostly to show the character of the brutal characters, and the blue face is mostly to show the courageous and tenacious characters. Pure, divided into literary and martial arts pure. Generally, there are black face, old face, treacherous white face, rack flower face and so on. Black face, because Bao Zheng is a model of uprightness, impartiality, and law enforcement, and in Peking Opera, Bao Zheng is depicted with a black face, so the black face represented by Bao Gong represents the character of uprightness and unselfishness. The old face, mainly playing the role of male senior citizens, is outlined in red, blue, purple, pink, yellow and other colors, and a piece of the brain is painted with a different color from the front of the face. For example, Guan Gong in "Huarong Road" is sketched with red face. The treacherous white face, is to play the sinister, ferocious, cunning people, are old and cunning antagonist. Rape white face hook half of the face, in the white face between the eyebrows and the corners of the eyes, sketched a few black lines, in order to highlight its old and treacherous characteristics. The white face has a black or white beard to show its old age. Shelf flower face, play the character character in addition to strong, brave, reckless, and innocent, witty atmosphere. Such as Zhang Fei, Li Kui. Also highlight optimism, humor and fun. Therefore, strong dance, heavy work is one of the characteristics of the frame Huafen performance. In addition, the frame face in anger will be issued "wow, yay, yay" powerful roar, which is also the frame face unique way of performing.