Many of the Tang emperors were musicians or composers themselves. The Tang Dynasty, one of the strongest and most prosperous empires in Chinese history, was a golden age for musical development. Huge and complex instruments like the bronze chimes gave way to more lively and easy-play wind and reed instruments. However, as music was never limited to the upper social class, the musical trend gradually turned from solemnity to entertaining. For them, music was also a way to display their power, position and taste distinguished from common people. The royal family and aristocrats had their own orchestra. More than 3,000 years ago, ancient China had some 70 types of musical instruments. A few strokes of the brush and every color turns a piece of plaster into a Peking opera mask.Ancient Chinese believed that the music could purify people's minds. It can be traced back to the 12th century when the first mask appeared in a Song dynasty opera. The craft of making traditional opera masks is unique to Beijing, China.
In Beijing Opera, different types of facial paintings express different significances – Red facial painting for loyalty, black facial make-up for uprightness, yellow face for homicidal and tyrannical, blue and green face-painting for a forthright and testy temper and white “face” for the treacherous and evil men.
Peking Opera Masks or Beijing Opera Faces or Lian Pu mean the types of facial make-up or face-painting.
There are four main roles in Peking Opera: Sheng, Dan, Jing and Chou. Painstakingly hand painted, these masks open the door of understanding this high art form by enabling you to learn about the character that wears the mask in the opera itself. The beautiful facial painting and exquisite costume of each individual will add a sense of culture to your home. Our Peking Opera masks cover many important figures in Chinese history and fiction. In addition, the pattern of the facial painting tells a lot about the character. For instance, a red face usually depicts the individual valor, integrity and loyalty a white face illustrates the figure's wickedness, deceitfulness and cunning a green face reveals surly obstinacy, rashness and lack of self-control. It is used as a means to denote characters. Traditional face painting plays an important role in Peking Opera. It is popular among Chinese and people of other nationalities alike for its dramatic presentation of Chinese culture and history. Peking Opera has more than two hundred years of history behind its name and is the national opera of China. In Chinese Peking opera, face painting is an interesting part.
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