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The black-faced Bao Gong, the red-faced Guan Yu, the white-faced Cao Cao, and the blue-faced Dou Erdun...... On October 18th, the "To the Times, Respect for the Future-Modern Express 25th Anniversary Readers' Festival" was held in Laomendong, Nanjing. At the scene, the opera mask experience area in the style of the "open-air" live broadcast room attracted many tourists to stop and check in. In front of the 2.6-meter-high "newspaper", download the Hyundai + APP, draw a Peking Opera mask, pose in a cool pose, and the headlines on the front page are none other than you!
In the lively Laomen East Scenic Area, the popularity of the check-in point is "off the table", the young ladies wearing Hanfu are holding fans and posing in various poses, and the students are happy to compare "yes" in front of the beautiful opera makeup experience area. There are also children who are keen on dressing up cool shapes, pulling their parents to rush to "transform" into opera characters, and they all bluntly say "I like it too much!" ”
The face mask of traditional Chinese opera is a kind of facial makeup of the actor, expressing the character of the character, so it is also called the "picture of the soul" of the character. What would an ordinary person look like? Cai Wenhao, a young actor of the Peking Opera Company of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group, came to the scene of the Modern Express Readers' Festival and painted exquisite opera masks for tourists.
A family of three who traveled from Anhui to Nanjing was experiencing the Nanjing style in Laomendong, and they were attracted by the check-in device in the opera face mask experience area, and the three-and-a-half-year-old girl looked at the face picture on the display board and shouted "Monkey King", amusing everyone at the scene.
Apply primer, pat the base color, wipe the red cheeks, open the sky, take the foundation, draw the eyebrows and eye circles...... Between the strokes, the little girl's face was full of martial arts, and she said in surprise: "I like it so much, I want to show my sister too!" ”
In front of the exhibition board, the little girl imitated the movements in Peking Opera, posed as a "cloud hand", and improvised to show Sun Wukong's "distant view" to everyone at the scene.
The little girl's mother told reporters that she usually likes makeup, and has done makeup for Princess Elsa and other characters.
Why are opera masks so attractive? Cai Wenhao said that the original role of face painting was only to exaggerate the facial features and facial textures of the characters in the play, and to use exaggerated techniques to express the personality, psychological and physical characteristics of the people in the play, so as to serve the plot of the whole play.
Later, the face mask changed from simple to complex, from thick to fine, from surface to inside, from shallow to deep, and gradually became a pattern art with national characteristics and using the human face as a means of expression.
How do you draw Cao Cao with a white face? Mr. Han, who came to check in, was a fan of Cao Cao and came to experience the painting of a white face.
Lay the bottom with white, outline the eyebrows and wrinkle lines at the corners of the eyes with black, make the characters look more three-dimensional, and finally use a "point" on the side of the mouth as the "broken phase", and Cao Cao's appearance is completed.
Mr. Han said that he experienced the charm of traditional culture at the 25th Anniversary Readers' Festival of Modern Express, and that the art of Peking Opera is broad and profound, and he will continue to pay attention to Peking Opera and spread Peking Opera culture in the future.
"This time to participate in the Modern Express Readers' Festival is also a very good communication opportunity for our Peking Opera industry, I hope that through this experience activity, you can better understand Peking Opera, like Peking Opera, and also add vitality to the Peking Opera industry." Cai Wenhao said.
Modern Express/Hyundai + reporter Ding Mengsha/text, Qian Nianqiu, Xu Yang/photo