Mr. Shi was stunned for a moment when he heard Qin Xuanqi's request, and asked with some uncertainty:

"Are you referring to Peking Opera masks?"

As a mask artist, Mr. Shi knows a lot about noodles, including the totems of the local people and the cultures related to faces in various places, and he knows a little about them, and he will not miss the representative of Chinese drama and one of the symbols of traditional Han culture.

Peking Opera mask was formed about 150 years ago, with the characteristics of deformation, expressiveness, and meaning, and is a special makeup method with Han characteristics, and the biggest feature is that the contradiction between beauty and ugliness agrees with the stylization of the group.

There are thousands of plays on the stage of Peking Opera, and countless flower-faced characters, and each character has its own set of painting methods, which is what we call face painting.

Qin Xuanqi nodded when he heard Mr. Shi's question.

Seeing Qin Xuanqi nodding, Mr. Shi couldn't help frowning, without him, in addition to the faces of fixed characters, Peking Opera masks are all kinds and varied, although he knows a lot, but it is not something that can be made casually, and it is not easy to make a new face.

The face mask seems colorful and varied, but in fact, it has its own set of rules, that is, each has its own spectrum. If you look at the lines and layout, it can be roughly divided into whole face, three tile faces, cross door faces, broken faces, crooked faces, white (anti-harmonic) powder faces, eunuch faces and tofu blocks with small flower faces.

The face is smeared with red, black, white, yellow, blue, gold, purple, silver, and green on the face by rubbing, wiping, and hooking the face, exaggerating the facial features of the characters in the play and the texture of the face, and using 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.

However, in the later development, the face mask changed from simple to complex, from thick to fine, from the surface to the inside, from shallow to dark, and gradually became a pattern art with the characteristics of the Han nationality and using the human face as a means of expression.

Although each of these faces is painted in different ways, they all start from the facial features and personality characteristics of the person, and use exaggeration, beautification, deformation, symbolism and other techniques to allude to praise and dispraise, and distinguish between good and evil, so that people can see at a glance. In terms of the basic painting method of the three tiles, that is, it is composed of the "three pieces" of eyebrows, eye sockets, and mouth sockets, and most of the other painting methods have evolved from these three tiles.

Face painting is a patterned makeup art that has a certain basis for life when expressing skin tone, facial organs and muscle textures, but it must be transformed.

The color of the flower face is set by color, such as red means loyal and upright (Guan Yu), enthusiastic and auspicious, black face means bold and rough (Zhang Fei), just and upright (Bao Zheng), purple means honest and loyal, yellow means fierce and brave, blue means arrogant, strong and cheerful, white means treacherous and suspicious (Qin Hui, Zhao Gao), green means brave and reckless, pink means old and blood decay, gold and silver means solemn (such as Buddha, Erlang God), mostly used for immortals and saints.

Mr. Shi thought about it and didn't know how to make a face mask for Qin Xuanqi, and finally decided to leave the decision to Qin Xuanqi himself.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Qin, I'm not good at making face masks, but there are some handicaps that I don't know if you like them. ”

As he spoke, Mr. Shi went around to the side of the small wooden cabinet, opened a drawer below, and took out some face masks, some made of metal and some made of rubber, and at a cursory glance there were no less than thirty.

Qin Xuanqi was slightly stunned when he heard this, and after the same key, he shook his head with a smile and said:

"Don't mind, it's a bit of a strong man. ”

After speaking, Qin Xuanqi shifted his gaze to the face mask that Mr. Shi took out, reached out and picked up a white face made of metal and looked at it, it was obviously made of metal, but it was very thin and light.

This face is composed of white, black, and pink, and it is not a good person at first glance, and with a flick of his fingers on the mask, a crisp metallic trill is immediately heard.

Jin Muyan watched curiously from the sidelines, and asked Mr. Shi suspiciously:

"Mr. Shi, is there any difference between face and face?"

"Yes. ”

Mr. Shi bowed slightly, pointed to the face on the table and said:

"Face painting is a unique makeup technique of the Han nationality in China, but it is made into the form of a mask, and the face mask has a special meaning from the color to the image of the painting. ”

Speaking of this, he paused, looked at the white-faced face in Qin Xuanqi's hand and said:

"For example, this face in Mr. Qin's hand, white is the main color, representing a treacherous and suspicious person, with painting lines and other colors, I remember this is 'Zhao Gao', which seems to be very famous in Chinese history. ”

Qin Xuanqi pulled the corners of his mouth when he heard this, he thought it was Qin Hui, the character represented by the white face, and he knew a Qin Hui...

At this time, Kirishima Dong Xiang, who was wandering around elsewhere, also came over and said curiously:

"This is Facebook, I just heard Mr. Shi say it before. ”

As he spoke, he picked up a thin rubber mask and gently put it on his face and looked around.

When Jin Muyan saw Kirishima Dong Xiang's appearance at this time, his face suddenly turned red, looking like he wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, Mr. Shi and Qin Xuanqi were much calmer than Jin Muyan, but they couldn't help but bring a trace of a smile in their eyes.

Shang Xun took out a small mirror and put it in Kirishima Dongxiang's hand understandingly, turned around and smiled with Yui and didn't know what to say.

Kirishima Dongxiang picked up the mirror suspiciously, and muttered a little unpleasantly:

"What, it's weird... What is this?"

When he said the second half of the sentence, his voice suddenly increased.

"Pss

Jin Muyan finally couldn't help it, holding his stomach and laughing exaggeratedly, Qin Xuanqi and the two wives each took a face mask to block their faces in advance, and now no one can see the expressions of the three.

The corners of Mr. Shi's mouth were hooked, and he explained with a smile:

"This is the 'clown' in the Peking Opera mask, which is mostly used to perform comedy. ”

Kirishima Dongxiang's face was flushed, no one could see it because of the face mask, so he first kicked Kanekiken in the calf with hatred, and was satisfied to see Kanekiyan squatting on the ground in pain, so he wanted to take off the face, but he couldn't remove it.

Mr. Shi was worried that Kirishima Dongxiang would destroy his face in chaos, so he hurriedly reminded:

"Don't be in a hurry, put it under the ears and rub it horizontally twice, and the heated mask will come off, and then pull it down. ”

Kirishima Dongxiang did as she was told, and took off her mask easily.

Qin Xuanqi touched the mask on his face, picked up the mirror that Kirishima Dongxiang put down and looked at it, and was surprised to find that although the face in the mirror had changed greatly, his facial features did not deviate from his original facial features, and he suddenly said with curiosity in doubt:

"Mr. Shi, this is..."

"Huh?"

Mr. Shi turned to look at Qin Xuanqi, and immediately understood Qin Xuanqi's doubts, and explained with a smile:

"This is Kunk Steel. (To be continued.) )