Chinese Opera Masks

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Chinese Opera Masks Colors???????
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12 Animal Zodiac????

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Four PeopleFour Colors

• ? Red
• ? Yellow
• ? Blue
• ? Green

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Making Faces in Chinese Opera

• In Chinese Opera, each style of facial make-up
  tells the audience something about the
  personality of the character wearing it.
  Different colors mean different things.
• When Chinese opera first began 700 years ago,
  masks were worn. Later, the designs were painted
  onto the face, a detailed practice that takes
  several hours.

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Making Faces Make-up in Chinese Opera

• White evil and treacherous
• Green stubborn and violent
• Black honorable and noble
• Red brave and loyal
• Blue cunning and cruel

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Red ?

• Chinese Opera Mask, Guan Yu ??
• Red indicates devotion, courage, bravery,
  uprightness and loyalty.
• A typical "red face" is Guan Yu, general of the
  period of the Three Kingdoms (220-280), famed for
  his faithfulness to his Emperor, Liu Bei.

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Black ?

• Chinese Opera Mask, Zhang Fei ??
• Black symbolizes roughness and fierceness.
• The black face indicates either a rough and bold
  character or an impartial and selfless
  personality. Typical of the former are General
  Zhang Fei of the Three Kingdoms and Bao Gong, the
  semi-legendary fearless and impartial judge of
  the Song Dynasty.

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Yellow ?

• Chinese Opera Mask
• Tu Xingsun ???
• Yellow signifies fierceness, ambition and
  cool-headedness.

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Purple ?

• Chinese Opera Mask
• Lian Po ??
• Purple stands for uprightness, sophistication and
  cool-headedness).
• The reddish purple face likewise shows a just and
  noble character, for instance, Lian Po in the
  well-known play Lian Po He (The General
  Reconciled with the Chief Minister), in which
  General Lian was proud and impetuous and
  quarreled with the chief minister to whom he was
  ultimately reconciled.

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Blue ?

• Chinese Opera Mask
• Xia Houdun ???
• Blue represents staunchness, fierceness and
  astuteness

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White ?

• Chinese Opera Mask Cao Cao ??
• White suggests sinisterness, treacherousness,
  suspiciousness and craftiness.
• Commonly seen on the stage is the white face for
  the powerful villain. It highlights all that is
  bad in human nature cunning, craftiness, and
  treachery.
• Typical characters are Cao Cao, powerful and
  cruel prime minister in the time of the Three
  Kingdoms?

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White ?

• Chinese Opera Mask Cao Cao ??
• White suggests sinisterness, treacherousness,
  suspiciousness and craftiness.
• Commonly seen on the stage is the white face for
  the powerful villain. It highlights all that is
  bad in human nature cunning, craftiness, and
  treachery.
• Typical characters are Cao Cao, powerful and
  cruel prime minister in the time of the Three
  Kingdoms?

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White ?

• Chinese Opera Mask Cao Cao ??
• White suggests sinisterness, treacherousness,
  suspiciousness and craftiness.
• Commonly seen on the stage is the white face for
  the powerful villain. It highlights all that is
  bad in human nature cunning, craftiness, and
  treachery.
• Typical characters are Cao Cao, powerful and
  cruel prime minister in the time of the Three
  Kingdoms?

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Green ?

• Chinese Opera Mask, Zheng Wun
• A green face tells the audience that the
  character is impulsive and violent and depicts
  surly stubbornness, impetuosity and a total lack
  of self-restraint.

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Petty Painted Face ???

• For the clowns of traditional drama, there is a
  special makeup called xiaohualian (the petty
  painted face), i.e., a small patch of chalk on
  and around the nose to show a mean and secretive
  character, such as Jiang Gan of the Three
  Kingdoms who fawned upon Cao Cao. It is also
  occasionally painted on a young page or an
  ordinary workingman, often to enhance his wit,
  humor or jesting and to enliven up the
  performance.

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Draw Your Own Mask I ???????
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Draw Your Own Mask II ???????
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Draw Your Own Mask III ???????
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