Lyrics for Singing Faces

Singing face sheet music

Lyrics: Yan Su?

Composition: Yao Ming?

Composed by Yao Ming

Foreigners call Beijing Opera,

Never seen the five-color oil paint on the face,

The "Four Strikes Head" is a debut, (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! (wahahaha ......)

Extended information

The creation of face painting has a long history. Face painting originated from masks, face painting will be graphics directly on the face, while the mask will be graphics painted or cast on top of something else and then worn on the face, in ancient China, there are rituals of witch dance and Nuo dance, the dancers often wear masks.

North of Chengdu in Sichuan Province, the ancient Shu site "Sanxingdui" unearthed artifacts, there are dozens of bronze masks, is 4,000 years ago, the ancient king of Shu fish eider held a sacrificial rites supplies. Lanling King Changgong of Northern Qi Dynasty, the temperament of the brave and strong martial arts, but handsome like a woman, he fought with a mask, to help its power. In the Tang Dynasty's song and dance "King Lanling's Entry Song", the actor playing King Lanling had to wear a mask. This may be the origin of face painting in theater.