Do you know the role of Facial Make-up?

Chinese traditional opera has a very interesting phenomenon, which is that people’s characters can be judged through the modeling, color and pattern of the Facial Make-up. This is a simple but not meet the real life dualism, non-good means bad, non-loyal means crafty and non-foolish means wisdom. This division makes the people on the stage become clear, it is easy for the viewer to judge.

In addition to show character, the Facial Make-up can also imply various circumstances of different roles. For example, Xiang Yu’s eyes are painted shape of cry, which suggest his tragic in the end. BaoGong’s frown means he always worry about something. Another role is to keep distance between the audiences, which make the audience not easy fall into the play, but to concentrate on aesthetics and appreciation. In addition, Facial Make-up’ strong, clear paint and a variety of patterns, along with rough tune, can stimulate the formation of arts and play the role of exciting, venting and motioning.

Facial Make-up is not absolutely fixed, they will be changed as the operas, the role of age, the different face of different people. In addition, there is a principle when painting actors’ face, which is the basic colors among all the actors on the stage are not the same. This situation indicates that there are still many issues need to be studied on Facial Make-up.