The fastest speed can be achieved, 270 minutes a second to change a face, or mighty and righteous, or hideous and horrible, or funny and amusing, let the viewer how to concentrate on the eyes can not see the slightest flaw, after seeing, all marveled. Tian Han said in the early 1940s after watching: "Sichuan opera on the face of such a specialty, I do not know why."
In Sichuan Opera, face painting is a romanticized technique to reveal the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters in the play. As the face has its remarkable typical qualities to illustrate the character's loyalty, treachery and evil, the actor changes his face image without the audience's attention, emphasizing the character's personality and the changing development of feelings, which turns the invisible, insensible abstract things into visible, sensible and concrete things, "is an amazing technique." ? Liu Chengji said, "The techniques of face-changing are broadly categorized into three, they are 'face-wiping', 'face-blowing' and 'face-pulling' "In addition, there is a 'luck' face changing.
"Wipe the face" is the makeup oil paint on a specific part of the face, when the hand to the face, you can become another kind of face. If you want to change all of them, the oil paint is applied to the forehead or eyebrows, and if you want to change only the lower part of the face, the oil paint can be applied to the face or nose. If only a certain part of the face is to be changed, the oil paint can be applied to only the position to be changed. For example, Hsu Hsien in "The Tale of the White Snake", Pei Yu in "Release Pei", Chen Lun in "Flying Cloud Sword", etc. all use "wipe the face".
Blow face, only suitable for powdered cosmetics, such as gold dust, toner, silver powder and so on. There is a very small box on the floor of the stage, filled with powder, when the actor to do a dance movement on the ground, take the opportunity to close the face of the box to blow, the powder on the face, and immediately turned into another color of the face. It is important to note: when blowing, close your eyes, mouth and breath. Zidu in "Capturing Zidu Alive" and Le Yangzi in "Ruling Zhongshan" adopt the "blowing face" to change their faces. The powder for the face blowing in "Capturing Zidu Alive" is placed inside a wine glass.
"Pulling the face" is a more complex method of face changing. It is to draw the face on a piece of silk beforehand, cut it, tie a handful of silk thread on each face, and then stick it on the face one by one. Silk thread is tied to a smooth and unobtrusive place in the clothes (such as on the belt and so on), with the needs of the performance, under the cover of the dance movement, and then pulled down one by one. First, the adhesive should not be too much, so as not to tear down, or once all the faces are pulled down. Secondly, the movements should be clean and sharp, and the fake movements should be skillful and able to hide the audience's eyes. For example, the bowl boy (purple and gold cymbal bowl) in "The Legend of the White Snake" can change seven or eight different faces, such as green, red, white and black. And then the thief in the "old building", "Wang Niang Beach" Nie Long, etc. also use the face of pulling.
Luck change face, legend has it that the late Sichuan opera actor Peng Sihong, in the role of "empty city plan" in the Zhuge Liang, when the piano boy reported Sima Yi after the retreat of the army, he was able to use qigong and make the face from red to white, and then from white to green, intended to show that Zhuge Liang as a sigh of relief after the aftermath of the fear.
There is also a known as swabbing leopard eyes, black smoke in both eyebrows and become a wipe. As Yang Guang swiped the leopard's eye in "Ask the Disease and Force the Palace" to show his ferocity and viciousness.
Sichuan opera "face-changing king" and "face-changing master"
In the Sichuan opera industry, there are a lot of face-changing, but very few of them. The audience know, the actor not only need to change the face of the skill, otherwise it will reveal the cloven foot, on the spot ugly; but also need to have a deep martial arts, to do the body of a strong and beautiful. When it comes to face-changing in Sichuan Opera, people will naturally think of Wang Daozheng, a famous actor of Sichuan Provincial Sichuan Theater who is nearly aged. He has the prerequisites for face-changing: since childhood, he has majored in wushang, has a costume, has a voice, has hard skills, has played the male Qing'er in "The Legend of the White Snake", "Lu Bu and Diaochan", played Lu Bu, the revolutionary modern opera "Zhiqi Weihu Mountain", played Yang Zirong, singing and doing double beauty. He is also good at acting in a large number of traditional martial arts plays such as Jiangdongqiao, Taiguaqiao, Fengyiting, and Sweeping Huatang, etc. This makes his performances have a "handsome" atmosphere, and his hands, feet, and steps are glowing with a kind of caracal beauty and stylized beauty. He has accompanied the theater has visited the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, Singapore and other countries in the East and West, as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan, in October 1996, Wang Daozheng went to Hong Kong to participate in Hong Kong people from all walks of life to celebrate the National Day, welcome the return of the Cultural and Artistic Evening, performance of Sichuan Opera face-change stunts, was Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" called the "king of face-changing".
Speaking of the "King of Face Changers", let's talk about Peng Denghuai, who is known as the "Master of Face Changers". In the CCTV version of the "Pride of the Wanderer" Yu Canghai should be said to be one of the brightest characters, Sichuan opera in the face of the use of stunts, not only to make the original Jin Yong Yu Canghai icing on the cake, the magical face-changing performances have also made many viewers a feast for the eyes. Peng Denghuai, a lecturer at the Sichuan Opera School, has been a fan of Sichuan Opera since his childhood, and is especially fond of face-changing in Sichuan Opera. His face-changing art of pure fire, fast and magical, seamless. 1993, the first nine face, leading the way. 1996, his stunts sensational Southeast Asia, Malaysia's giant businessmen have paid a lot of money to buy his "copyright", he flatly refused. 1999, February, should be invited by the Singapore, Taiwan TV station, Peng Denghuai went to Singapore. 22nd in the Lion's Nest, the show was held on the 22nd of May. On the 22nd, in the Lion City, Clarke Quay Theater, Peng Teng Hwai to 25 seconds to change 14 faces, change back to the face of the original restore back to 4 results, breaking the record in 1998 to 25 seconds to change 12 to restore 3, and was included in the "Guinness Book of World Records".
Peng Denghuai's wonderful performance, whether at home, or abroad, has conquered countless audiences. And in this, there is a special person with a heart. He is Andy Lau, who is known as the heavenly king superstar in Hong Kong. Andy Lau watched Mr. Peng Denghuai's magical face-changing art on different occasions, and was amazed at the idea of combining traditional Sichuan Opera with modern pop music, composing new lyrics for old tunes and singing new songs. Andy Lau's worship of Sichuan Opera's "King of Face Changing" Mr. Peng Denghuai became the focus of attention for a while, and Peng Denghuai was very happy to talk about his disciple Andy Lau, praising: "Wah Chai is an excellent young man with high arts and virtues, that's why he accepted him as the first disciple and also the last disciple. Through five years of contact, Wah Chai has learned to change four or five faces, but will not perform on stage when his technique is not mature enough." Pang Deng Huai laughed in case of any loopholes, afraid of changing faces into disgrace.
Meet the "face changer" - Kang Yong
Kang Yong, neither the "king of the face" Wang Daozheng, nor known as the "master of the face". "Master of the face" visit Peng Denghuai, but in 1970 was born in Langzhong City, Sichuan Province, a remote town in the mountains of the baby - Kang Yong. Now, he is a national-level stuntman and a young performing artist of Sichuan opera. He specializes in face-changing and fire-spitting stunts. Kang Yong not only created the Guinness World Record of changing 15 faces in 20 seconds, he also broadened the field of face-changing, not only can change all kinds of traditional faces, but also change faces according to the people in real life. At present, while further improving his face-changing skills, he is also studying to change costumes at the same time. Young Kang Yong has performed in the United States, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries and regions, and has won the titles of "Ba Shu Geek", "Sichuan Sichuan Proud Son", "Young Face-Changing King" and so on. "and other titles.
A hard experience of learning from masters
Kang Yong's parents are small business farmers, when he was young, there were often troupes to perform in the countryside, the five-year-old Kang Yong's favorite thing is to ride on his father's neck, to the surrounding villages to see the play. In Kang Yong's young heart was filled with great curiosity about Sichuan opera, the face-changing man in the play, swish, turn his head, change a red face, swish, turn around again is a gold face, swish, turn around again out of a black face; there is also a cup, to drink, the smoke up, the face will change color, it is really magical. Out of his love for Sichuan opera, Kang Yong entered the township amateur Sichuan opera troupe at the age of 9 and became a small actor. 15 years old, after graduating from junior high school, he recommended himself to enter the Langzhong Sichuan Opera Troupe and became a full-fledged actor. But there he did not have the opportunity to learn face-changing stunts.
When Kang Yong was 12 years old, he learned that there was a teacher in the Langzhong Chuan Opera Troupe who could simply change three faces, which, according to the customs of the current technology, is the most elementary kind of face-changing. He went to him to learn from him, but he did not agree. This teacher is very, very respectful of the rules of the trade, on the one hand, due to the short time Kang Yong to the Sichuan Opera Troupe, less than the background, on the other hand, the teacher is afraid of Kang Yong learned, can not be better play, better inheritance of this stunt performance style, this technology.
Kang Yong's family's economic conditions are not good, they do not have money, he thought of a way, in addition to respect for the teacher in the life of the teacher, respect for the teacher, they also have to pay, there are also said to be able to, from the feelings of the teacher to impress. Knowing that the teacher likes to drink tea in the morning, the tea at that time, not now this kind of tea, is not the flower tea, it is their own, picking the kind of tea, called Brain Tea, in winter, early in the morning, Kang Yong will go to a faraway place, find a cup of tea, or go to the village home to ask for a cup of tea, to give to the teacher, and then go to practice their own. At that time, eating fish was very expensive in our area, Kang Yong found bamboo poles, with sewing needles, made a fishing hook, and then asked the old folks for a little fishing nylon line, Kang Yong, who had never fished before, got up early in the morning in the winter to go fishing, earthworms were also used, flour was also used, and the result was that for three days in a row, he didn't catch a single fish. Because of his family's poor condition and lack of money to buy clothes, Kang Yong wore very little in winter. One day, an old man said to him, "You can't do this, not only can you not catch any fish, but you will also freeze yourself if you wear so little. I'll teach you a trick, and you'll surely catch fish today. After the old man's instruction, Kang Yong caught two fish in less than an hour. Because it was a small river gorge, a fish might be two or three taels at most.
After catching the fish, Kang Yong was very excited, quickly ran to find the local townspeople, preferably free, do not pay anything, to help him do this fish soup. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and you'll be able to do it on your own. The teacher was surprised, because although the fish soup now seems to be general, it does not matter, the teacher knows that Kang Yong's family has no money, I heard that he used his hard-earned expenses to buy this fish soup to their own drink, the teacher was very touched.
Because old artists get up early, one day the teacher went for a walk, walked to the river, and ran into this fishing master. The teacher told him that there is a child in your area who fishes here every day. The teacher asked him what the child looked like. The old man said what he looked like, and our teacher thought it might be Kang Yong. It turned out that the fish soup Kang Yong made for me was made from the fish he caught every morning. This time the teacher was even more moved.
One day the teacher called Kang Yong to his room, he said, so, see you so sincere, and so respect for the teacher, teach, one move to teach this impossible, I put my special props, that is, I evolved this props, give you a look, from start to finish to give you a look, look, you go to figure it out. Kang Yong was very excited at that time, thinking that if this is the case, it has been very good.
Because the teacher didn't teach by hand, he just showed it to Kang Yong and asked him to go back and figure it out by himself. The old masters at that time, the old masters, oral transmission of things he did not necessarily give you directly say a lot, especially the masterpiece. After looking at his teacher's props, Kang Yong went back to work on them, but he didn't have a clue. He used the paper to sketch himself, do the face of this face; the family's bed sheets, torn to do the show clothes, for which received a lot of scolding, the results of doing three months did not do it, that is, also did not evolve successfully, once did not succeed. Kang Yong secretly in the teacher dress or performance, go to see, from which to comprehend.
A difficult attempt at innovation
Interest is the best teacher. Although the face-changing knowledge learned from the master is limited, but Kang Yong this stubborn mountain boy, hard to rely on their own continuous experimentation, after experiencing failure after failure, finally mastered the secrets of face-changing. Unlike the old generation of face-changing artists, Kang Yong hopes to add modern elements to the traditional face-changing to suit the modern people's appreciation of fun. The star face change and costume change are his original masterpieces.
Speaking of mastery, Kang Yong also has a certain talent for it. All the theater, including Beijing opera, other sister plays, they have skills in the thing, he likes. In Sichuan Opera, there are a lot of face-changing and fire-spitting, which is also a masterpiece, as well as some small tricks, such as using the candle, blowing it out immediately, and then burning it again, extinguishing it, and then lighting it again, which Kang Yong is very happy to try.
From the face-changing to now may be almost 20 years, when the traditional face-changing has been in the country and even the world has been a sensation, shocked the time, Kang Yong worship Li Boqing as a teacher, the teacher gave him the proposal to change the face of this celebrity, the star, I hope that Kang Yong in the original basis for new creations, the new improvement. Talking about his first modern stars, celebrities face changing skills, Kang Yong especially excited: "Many viewers have long felt 'aesthetic fatigue' on the Sichuan Opera face changing, quite a few words, criticizing the Sichuan Opera face changing no progress, change to change so many old faces! I have been anxious!"
So, Kang Yong rented a house in Chengdu, closed the door, dedicated to the study of Sichuan opera face changing, the Sichuan opera face changing technology for in-depth analysis. He wanted to combine the art of Sichuan opera face-changing with the modern audience's favorite popular stars, such as Gong Li, Andy Lau, Ren Da Hua, Cecilia Cheung's artistic image, into the Sichuan opera face-changing, highlighting the times, watchability. Kang Yong has become a star chaser, hiding at home to watch TV, watch videos, on the star's looks, clothes and even look and act as if they know; Kang Yong store, a shopping is a day, more than the love of beautiful girls like, a piece of fabric, a piece of clothing will be picked up to look at half a day. Kang Yong bought a star pictorial, and bought the production of new materials for the face, and kept drawing, making ah, now many girls will not do needlework, but Kang Yong a little handsome but can thread the needle, dexterity and ease of production of the star face.
The traditional face is made through the classical character face painting, relatively simple and rough, but the star face is like the face of our life, more delicate, and to be special in the workmanship, skills, the pursuit of perfection, this is very difficult, very difficult. If it is through a short period of time, one day, two days, one month and two months is more difficult. After a long time of pondering, a long time of thinking, and then finally after many, many times of failure to sum up the experience, now Kang Yong change the star face, is only a rough version, has not reached the degree of refinement.
Kang Yong's change of star face, and this change of clothes, (they call it changing clothes), not only in the previous never, and now change the face of the peers may not have, only one of him. Kang Yong's current creation, is in progress, is still in the research and development stage, although the first draft has come out, it should be said that can already show the audience, but to achieve the accurate, skillful, fine this angle, is still a little bit short, Kang Yong would like to dedicate to the audience the best, the best, the most brilliant form of expression. I believe that after his efforts, will soon meet with the audience.
A romantic cross-country love
Kang Yong's face-changing stunts, not only in the domestic fame, but also often to foreign countries to participate in performances. 2002 July he was invited to participate in the "China Zigong Chuan Jiejie Art Troupe" went to South Korea Pusan performances, Kang Yong magical face-changing art poured a beautiful South Korean girl present. The two of them began a romantic relationship. From then on, the two began a romantic cross-border love affair.
In 2002, Kang Yong went to South Korea to participate in the 10th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea, an activity, in the minds of South Koreans, the Chinese national art, for them to say, more worship, his current girlfriend Sun Meihai is responsible for the reception of their South Korea, a very large pass exhibition company's public relations department manager, every day responsible for their performances, food, accommodation. At that time, every day in Kang Yong's room, there would be one more gift, which was fresh fruit juice. At that time, he did not dare to drink, because there are foreign affairs discipline, management regulations, you can not just go to take other people's gifts, you can not just eat other people give you something.
After about a week's time, one night in the performance preparation, Korea was in June, very hot, Kang Yong came out, saw his current girlfriend in a drink, and joked with her, "We are here so many people, you drink a cup of one person, why do not you buy a cup of each of us? " When she said this, her face instantly turned red. Kang Yong continued to joke, you changed face, beautiful girl face into a red face, in our China red face is Guan Gong, so Sun Mei Hai even more embarrassed, she walked away. Gone probably less than half a minute 30 seconds time, she came back, she said, Kang, pointing to her this cup, and then pointed inside, this time Kang Yong realized, every day this cup of fresh juice, are she sent .
In the days of Korea, Kang Yong and Korean girl Sun Mei Hai's in contact with each other, further deepened understanding of the two people's hearts are getting closer and closer. The power of love also makes them learn each other's language diligently.
When Kang Yong left Korea, Sun Mi Hae saw him off at the airport and gave him a letter, telling him to take it back to China and open it again when he returned home.
Because of the language barrier, Sun Mei Hai wrote a letter is to put the dictionary aside, write a word to translate a word, typed a good first draft, before using high-level flower paper transcription, the letter as if written by elementary school students, askew, the letter is also sprayed with perfume, kissed with their own lipstick prints, more than 100 words are mostly to express the words of adoration, very touching.
Kang Yong then read, very intoxicated, the brain other things seem to be unable to think, all the shadow of Sun Meihai, from knowing her, to later she did everything, like a movie, how can not erase. At this time the girl's phone came, Kang Yong returned her a sentence, said in Korean, that is, I also love you, she was over there, then cried, very emotional.
Just last December, Sun Meihai finally came all the way to China, chased to Zigong Kang Yong's home. I've seen Kang Yong's parents. In order to have the opportunity to come to China more, and Kang Yong meet more, now Sun Mei Hai has resigned to work in another company. Now they agreed in September this year, the girl came to China, from the day they tied the knot will not be too far away.
Where is the face-changing stunt going
The face-changing stunt has been loved by the world since its birth with its colorful faces and mysterious techniques. However, for decades, this stunt has not been mastered by outsiders, which is attributed to the generations of Sichuan Opera practitioners who have kept the secret of face-changing "tight-lipped". For many years, they have been strictly abiding by the ancient motto of "Passing the word inside but not outside, passing the word to men but not to women". The Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture has also stipulated it as a "two-pole performance secret". In recent years, the Sichuan Opera industry has been rumored that the face-changing stunt has been cracked, some people have taught their female disciples the face-changing stunt, and the face-changing stunt has been used in a variety of commercial occasions and other news. The protection of face-changing stunts has become the center of debate in Sichuan opera circles. Not long ago, someone applied for a patent on face-changing, but was unsuccessful. Kang Yong said face-changing is not his invention, nor is it invented by Mr. Peng Denghuai, nor is it invented by other teachers, it is passed from generation to generation through the old-timers to today, from ancient times to the present day, through so many artists, so many seniors, it is the teacher who taught him, he will certainly keep this secret, it seems that the sense of crisis has come, if this secret will be broken in the near future, one will certainly be a very big pressure, if the Sichuan Street, the streets of the Sichuan Opera, and so on. Pressure, if the streets of Sichuan, not our circle of people, the old, young and young people know what is the secret of the face-changing, he still believes that through their own face-changing baby's efforts to show the audience must still be a masterpiece.
Some people say that the mystery of Sichuan opera face-changing dumped countless viewers, so this layer of windowpaper to say anything can not be broken. Others say, this flavor of secrecy, the stagnant, will affect the development of Sichuan opera face changing, we do not know that one more right, but we know that many viewers have seen a time, or not to see this face changing to understand, but also want to see, we also know that as a young generation of face-changing artists, is a red-hot to the market.