The magical charm of Chinese opera is closely related to the makeup of the opera. Among them, the stage makeup of the Beijing-Kun opera is even more particular.
As opera appearances and cross-border cooperation in film and television dramas become more and more frequent, more and more young people are beginning to try opera makeup, check-in opera photos, and get in touch with opera culture. Opera makeup has a unique "out of the circle" charm.
Recently, the Shanghai Oriental Art Center invited the opera makeup artist San Bao to be a guest in the live broadcast room to share the makeup of the opera.
He is the royal makeup artist of Zhang Jun, the "Prince of Kunqu Opera". He also designed Peking Opera makeup for Shang Xirui, played by actor Yin Zheng, in the popular TV series "The Sideburns Are Not Begonia Red". For 17 years, he has created more than 6,000 faces for opera actors and film and television actors.
What are the ways and what are the details in opera makeup? You might as well follow his behind-the-scenes stories and experience the beauty of traditional Chinese opera up close.
It's not a coincidence that I'm doing this business, it's mostly family reasons. My grandfather was one of the earliest opera actors. He used to take a class (studying opera in a class). Male Dan's voice may have problems around the age of 40. The so-called "secondary dumping". Later, he lost his voice, so he changed his makeup.
Grandpa can be said to be my Kaimeng teacher. I have lived with my grandfather since I was a child, playing in the backstage, fascinated by my eyes and ears, and developed a very strong interest in opera.
I officially entered the industry around 2005. I studied with teachers from the Shanghai Peking Opera Theater and Shanghai Theater Academy for about 4 years, and devoted myself to the makeup of opera. For me, it's not a job, it's a hobby and a hobby.
The opera makeup looks very simple, but it actually has a lot of content. A very common makeup involves folk customs, as well as traditional culture (including traditional Chinese painting and dance), as well as characters, so there is still a lot of attention.
In the past 17 years, I have estimated that I have probably transformed more than 6,000 faces and contacted many people.
Anyone who does this has a good mentality. No matter who he is, whether he is a star or an actor, or a student of our school (Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai Opera School), or even fancier, we must show a sense of composure. , to be worthy of professional ethics. We are not only putting on makeup, but also using a little bit of face to carry forward and promote the quintessence of the country.
People who are not in our industry often have many problems. Why is it so? While answering the questions, firstly, it enriches myself and broadens my knowledge, and secondly, it also promotes traditional art invisibly.
Once I had a friend like this, he was very happy to ask me to do makeup, I didn't expect this makeup to be so complicated and so elaborate! That night, he bought a ticket to go to the theater and invited me to explain it to him. I'm very happy, at least a little bit of dedication to traditional art.
Yue Opera has taken a different approach and developed a unique system. It draws on traditional Chinese ladies' paintings, so its stage beauty and makeup are more realistic. But Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, Huai Opera, Hunan Opera, Pingju Opera, Qin Opera, etc., adhere to the most traditional makeup and stage beauty features, which are very heavy, heavy makeup, and very freehand clothes.
Some friends who like Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera will ask, are these two makeup different? I want to tell you that Jing and Kun are not separated, they are brothers, and there is no difference in makeup, including the choreography system and the habit of wearing costumes.
In the school, the makeup teachers and costume systems of the Peking Opera class and the Kunqu Opera class are all the same team, the aesthetics are the same, and the stage requirements and stage rules are also the same.
Why are some thin, some thick, and some thin and thick eyebrows? The difference lies in the stage lighting and the size of the stage. The stage lights are brighter, and the makeup will be adjusted. The stage changes from a large theater with 2,000 people to a small theater with 300 people, and then to a closer black box and immersive performance, and the makeup will also be adjusted. In addition, when filming movies and TV dramas, we also adjust our makeup.
The makeup style of each troupe will be slightly different, and the aesthetic habits, makeup habits and wearing habits of each actor will also be different. We will communicate with the actors to make the makeup more suitable for the characters, in line with the actors' performance habits, and for the performance help.
Many friends will say that makeup is to look good, how to evaluate good looks?
Some people think that painted faces are not good-looking, but that's not the case. Flower face is a kind of rough beauty. Ugly is a witty, lovely beauty. Tsing Yi wears silver bubbles, it is the beauty of atmosphere and elegance. The imperial concubine wearing a phoenix crown is a graceful and luxurious beauty. The characters in each category have different personalities of beauty, and a hundred flowers bloom.
Opera comes from life. Hualian is a character with a violent or bold personality in life, and we express it through exaggerated facial makeup; Tsing Yi is a female character, we must make her beautiful; clowns will be very cute and funny... There are such characters in life , we refined them, abstracted them, and made them higher than life. When the audience sees it, this person looks so strange, this person is fierce, this person is so cute, and the characters are there.
Modern makeup is basically the same system as opera makeup. It is mainly flat and does not pay much attention to three-dimensionality.
Three-dimensional, skinny, this is the Western aesthetic. China is talking about Zhu Dan, Liu Mei and phoenix eyes in the mouth. The beauty is round, the eyebrows are round and thin, the eyes are also phoenix eyes, and the mouth is small... This has been the case for thousands of years, this is China A traditional study of beauty, which is more subtle and elegant.
What is the difference between the tools of opera makeup and modern makeup?
Few colors are used in traditional opera makeup, that is, flesh, red, and black. The color is very simple, but the difficulty is that it is too simple, just like a traditional Chinese musical instrument with three strings, but it must produce a variety of sounds.
Orientals take white as their beauty, so the base color is basically a flesh-pink oil, which will be very bright on the stage. The costumes of opera are very bright, and the headgear is also bright, so the skin needs to be fairer, in order to compete with the gorgeous clothes and gorgeous headgear.
Also, we have the wet rouge, which is a bit of a coral red with tangerine in the pink. This is a red oil paint used as a primer. The circle around the actor's eyes is red, which is to use wet rouge as a primer, then set the makeup after the primer, and add dry powder rouge, so that the color will seep from the inside. After setting the makeup, we use black oil paint to outline the eye sockets.
There are some other colors of oil paint that are used for makeup. Maybe you haven't seen these strange things at all. They don't look like cosmetics, like paint boxes. In fact, opera makeup is just like Chinese painting.
Actors will move and sweat after a performance, so the tinting power and durability of the colors should be strong. Opera makeup is very strange, you can't go wrong, if you do it wrong, you have to wash your face and start over.
Others asked, many people look different, why are they all so good-looking in the end? This is where opera makeup is so powerful, you can change your face shape through patches! And life makeup mainly changes the face shape through light and dark contrast such as shadows.
For people with narrow faces, stick the film back; for people with wide faces, stick the film forward; for people with long faces, you can stick the film higher; for people with short faces, you can put the film down... through the film, and the forehead The seven small bends posted on it are used to adjust the actor's face shape and try to move closer to the most perfect direction.
Some characters are more acerbic and may receive special treatment. For example, for Wang Xifeng, who has a tricky personality, we will stick a crooked peach.
The makeup of opera actors is so thick, like a mask, how can the audience feel that their faces are not fake and not like shells? It is also through the patch that the makeup of the face and the hair of the head are connected to achieve the effect of flowing clouds and water, poetic and picturesque. This is the best makeup method summed up by the ancestors who have been practicing and researching for many years.
How to distinguish characters? clothing. Red is rarely used. It is only used for weddings, birthdays, and happy events at home. White is generally used for funerals, and some people are particularly noble and upright, and white is also used, but embroidery is required. Black, green, and royal blue are generally used more for painted faces. The upper five colors, such as red, black, white, etc., are generally used more by the main actor because the weight is heavier. The lower five colors, such as lake color, pink, etc., are generally used more by non-starring actors. We call them "Second Road".
The head face (headgear) is also related to the character of the character. When you see the head face, you will know what kind of character this person is.
The head and face of the dotted silk is made of silk, which is usually worn by noble ladies and has a more dignified character; the face of the rhinestone, also called the face of the bright head, is shiny and is usually worn by lively and cheerful little girls and jasper; the face of the silver head is made of silver , elegant, atmospheric, clean, usually worn by poor people, such as Wang Baochuan.
There are also silk flowers, sand chrysanthemums, camellias, bluebells, dianthus flowers... The 87th edition of "A Dream of Red Mansions" basically uses opera flowers, which are very beautiful. Wang Xifeng loves wearing sand chrysanthemums. I have a lot of silk flowers from the fifties. These headgear should pay attention to moisture, and some silver-plated places will oxidize.
Practice makeup, you can also practice on your own face, try to replace as many people as possible. When I first started doing makeup, I practiced against myself every night until two or three o'clock. In any art, it takes a lot of hard work to do it well.
I am left-handed and both hands can melt. I use my left hand to apply makeup to myself, and my right hand to apply makeup to others. The effect is different because the two hands feel different. When time is very tight, we sit face-to-face with the actors, just like painting, with pens in both hands, very fast. You must practice. People who learn to draw must be able to use both hands when facing the drawing board. Therefore, opera makeup is similar to traditional Chinese painting.
I also have students in Thailand and Japan, and I found that all eastern countries regard white as their beauty.
Kong Opera is the national drama of Thailand. In 2017, I went to Thailand to communicate and found that the makeup method is the same, and the makeup is the same. They also do traction, they also need to wrap their heads, and lift their eyebrows and eyes with water gauze, so that people are very energetic and look brighter. So are we.
In 2014, I communicated in a museum in Japan. They put on kabuki makeup, I put on Peking opera makeup, they also do traction, also use headbands, also use oil paint, and even use the same brand as us. I think it is very interesting, the culture is really similar.
Yin Zheng is very interesting, why do I like him so much? He is very dedicated, and he is in awe of opera.
Yin Zheng is a man after all, so he has to wear very thick makeup to look like a woman. The patch will definitely be uncomfortable after a long time, the eyebrows will be very tight, and there may be a lack of oxygen. I told you to loosen it up a little, or be lazy, but Yin Zheng said: "Teacher, you can do whatever you want, you don't have to feel bad." I, I can bear it, I must ensure the quality of the shooting.
I am very moved. Opera actors do this all the year round, they know the problem and can adapt. As a film and television actor, he was exposed to opera for the first time. He covered his head and face with heavy makeup, and he was dazed after wrapping it up. The filming took more than ten hours, and I couldn't remove my makeup, because as soon as I removed my makeup, I had to start all over again. The filming scene was very cold, and he couldn't be allowed to wear a lot of clothes. The men are bigger and need to wear very thin clothes. What should I do? Only overcome.
Yin Zheng's facial lines are not very soft. His eyebrows and humerus and nose line are very hard, so when turning his eyebrows, he will be more curved, not too straight, and soften the hard lines of his eyebrows and humerus; his eyes should be as round as possible, not so slender; his lips are also very smooth. Round, like Korean lips, with two semi-circles on the top and one half-circle on the bottom... Through these means, he made his face softer.
Bai Bing (played by Jiang Mengping) is very beautiful, and I only did it for half an hour. Some people are beautiful, but they don't necessarily turn out beautiful, and some people don't look good, but they turn out beautiful. Bai Bing looks beautiful and looks good when it turns out.
Tan Jianci (played by Chen Renxiang) is very beautiful, but not very good, his face is too three-dimensional. In fact, opera makeup, the face is more elegant and flat, not too three-dimensional or too modern, and it looks good.
To transform a face, I now need 50 minutes to an hour, plus half an hour of combing my hair, about an hour and a half.
The makeup of this show is not the same as it is now. Because the background of the story is 1937, we have to imitate the makeup method of the opera at that time, read a lot of old photos, and copy them into the TV series, including hair accessories and headgear.
The crew was very attentive and spent a lot of money. For the costumes of the opera, Yin Zheng probably had more than 20 sets, plus other people's costumes, the cost of costumes probably cost more than 1 million. A piece of clothing is tens of thousands, pure handmade, you can imagine how high the quality of the craftsmanship is.
What I feel most deeply is that everyone is centered on opera, and they do things with respect and awe. From stage art, props, costumes to actors, everyone put their hearts into it, so they did a good job.
"Spring River, Flowers and Moonlight Night" is a famous poem by Zhang Ruoxu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Screenwriter Luo Zhou took this as an inspiration to create a Kunqu Opera of the same name, telling a story that has gone through 50 years and crossed the three worlds of human, ghost, and immortal. It's poignant, romantic, and extremely idealistic.
Zhang Ruoxu will wear black veil in several scenes. Why wear black veil? Black gauze represents the soul on the stage of opera. Zhang Ruoxu died at the age of 27. He died for love, lived for love, entered the underworld with his soul, and then returned to the world to meet his lover Xin Yi.
Why is the heroine called Xin Yi? Xinyi is the purple magnolia, which is light and elegant. Taking flowers as a metaphor for people, Xinyi is like a purple magnolia, beautiful, clean, and very cold. She is a cold beauty. She has an admiration for Zhang Ruoxu, but she remains silent. The medicinal value of Xin Yi is sexual flatness, so it is also Zhang Ruoxu's love medicine... The screenwriter's mind is quite interesting. You know these will be very interesting to watch the drama again.
In "The Sideburns Are Not Begonia Red", Chen Renxiang and Shang Xirui fought in the ring, playing Yan Poxi, wearing white gauze. That scene is called "Soul Road", the soul walks on the road, and the ghost walks underneath it, just like floating. Du Liniang also wears white gauze in the "Secluded Concubine" in the Kunqu Opera "Peony Pavilion".
It is possible to wear white or black gauze. As long as the veil is covered, it is basically a ghost. With black yarn as the standard. The white yarn will be fresher, representing a ghost. Generally, men wear black gauze, and women use a touch of pink, white with pink, a little sequins, and a flower ball. For a scene like "Li Huiniang", a large flower ball is used.
As soon as the yarn came out, it was very ethereal. The whole person seems to be "atomized", and with ghost steps, basically you can't see the bumps of your feet, like slipping forward with pulley thorns, like a soul flying around.
There are also thread tails (the black slender rope behind the head of the horn, representing the hair), (in ghost dramas), instead of wearing real thread tails, they wear a rectangular black gauze, which is fastened to the back of the head with a clip, so that the actor is in the When lying on the cloud, turning in circles, and turning over, it will not be messy, and when walking, the black gauze can float up, and it is more like a ghost.
Ghosts generally wear rhinestone heads, shiny and gauze, under the illumination of lights, they are more like ghosts, more ethereal, and more illusory.
The lighting on the stage is also very particular. When a good person dies, it is yellow light. You see Lin Daiyu in Yue Opera, and finally burnt the manuscript to break the infatuation. As soon as she left, slap, the yellow light came down, which means she was promoted to immortal. When the bad guy dies, it's blue light, which means hell. Hell is blue and green.
As opera appearances and cross-border cooperation in film and television dramas become more and more frequent, more and more young people are beginning to try opera makeup, check-in opera photos, and get in touch with opera culture. Opera makeup has a unique "out of the circle" charm.
Recently, the Shanghai Oriental Art Center invited the opera makeup artist San Bao to be a guest in the live broadcast room to share the makeup of the opera.
He is the royal makeup artist of Zhang Jun, the "Prince of Kunqu Opera". He also designed Peking Opera makeup for Shang Xirui, played by actor Yin Zheng, in the popular TV series "The Sideburns Are Not Begonia Red". For 17 years, he has created more than 6,000 faces for opera actors and film and television actors.
What are the ways and what are the details in opera makeup? You might as well follow his behind-the-scenes stories and experience the beauty of traditional Chinese opera up close.
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【Readme】It's not a coincidence that I'm doing this business, it's mostly family reasons. My grandfather was one of the earliest opera actors. He used to take a class (studying opera in a class). Male Dan's voice may have problems around the age of 40. The so-called "secondary dumping". Later, he lost his voice, so he changed his makeup.
Grandpa can be said to be my Kaimeng teacher. I have lived with my grandfather since I was a child, playing in the backstage, fascinated by my eyes and ears, and developed a very strong interest in opera.
I officially entered the industry around 2005. I studied with teachers from the Shanghai Peking Opera Theater and Shanghai Theater Academy for about 4 years, and devoted myself to the makeup of opera. For me, it's not a job, it's a hobby and a hobby.
The opera makeup looks very simple, but it actually has a lot of content. A very common makeup involves folk customs, as well as traditional culture (including traditional Chinese painting and dance), as well as characters, so there is still a lot of attention.
In the past 17 years, I have estimated that I have probably transformed more than 6,000 faces and contacted many people.
Anyone who does this has a good mentality. No matter who he is, whether he is a star or an actor, or a student of our school (Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai Opera School), or even fancier, we must show a sense of composure. , to be worthy of professional ethics. We are not only putting on makeup, but also using a little bit of face to carry forward and promote the quintessence of the country.
People who are not in our industry often have many problems. Why is it so? While answering the questions, firstly, it enriches myself and broadens my knowledge, and secondly, it also promotes traditional art invisibly.
Once I had a friend like this, he was very happy to ask me to do makeup, I didn't expect this makeup to be so complicated and so elaborate! That night, he bought a ticket to go to the theater and invited me to explain it to him. I'm very happy, at least a little bit of dedication to traditional art.
Sanbao work photo
Many friends asked, is there any difference between Peking Opera makeup and Kunqu Opera makeup, including Huai Opera, Yue Opera, Hunan Opera, etc.Yue Opera has taken a different approach and developed a unique system. It draws on traditional Chinese ladies' paintings, so its stage beauty and makeup are more realistic. But Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, Huai Opera, Hunan Opera, Pingju Opera, Qin Opera, etc., adhere to the most traditional makeup and stage beauty features, which are very heavy, heavy makeup, and very freehand clothes.
Some friends who like Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera will ask, are these two makeup different? I want to tell you that Jing and Kun are not separated, they are brothers, and there is no difference in makeup, including the choreography system and the habit of wearing costumes.
In the school, the makeup teachers and costume systems of the Peking Opera class and the Kunqu Opera class are all the same team, the aesthetics are the same, and the stage requirements and stage rules are also the same.
Why are some thin, some thick, and some thin and thick eyebrows? The difference lies in the stage lighting and the size of the stage. The stage lights are brighter, and the makeup will be adjusted. The stage changes from a large theater with 2,000 people to a small theater with 300 people, and then to a closer black box and immersive performance, and the makeup will also be adjusted. In addition, when filming movies and TV dramas, we also adjust our makeup.
The makeup style of each troupe will be slightly different, and the aesthetic habits, makeup habits and wearing habits of each actor will also be different. We will communicate with the actors to make the makeup more suitable for the characters, in line with the actors' performance habits, and for the performance help.
Many friends will say that makeup is to look good, how to evaluate good looks?
Some people think that painted faces are not good-looking, but that's not the case. Flower face is a kind of rough beauty. Ugly is a witty, lovely beauty. Tsing Yi wears silver bubbles, it is the beauty of atmosphere and elegance. The imperial concubine wearing a phoenix crown is a graceful and luxurious beauty. The characters in each category have different personalities of beauty, and a hundred flowers bloom.
Opera comes from life. Hualian is a character with a violent or bold personality in life, and we express it through exaggerated facial makeup; Tsing Yi is a female character, we must make her beautiful; clowns will be very cute and funny... There are such characters in life , we refined them, abstracted them, and made them higher than life. When the audience sees it, this person looks so strange, this person is fierce, this person is so cute, and the characters are there.
From left to right: dotted silk head face, rhinestone head face, silver head face
From left to right: sand chrysanthemum, camellia, bluebell, dianthus
What is the difference between opera makeup and modern makeup?Modern makeup is basically the same system as opera makeup. It is mainly flat and does not pay much attention to three-dimensionality.
Three-dimensional, skinny, this is the Western aesthetic. China is talking about Zhu Dan, Liu Mei and phoenix eyes in the mouth. The beauty is round, the eyebrows are round and thin, the eyes are also phoenix eyes, and the mouth is small... This has been the case for thousands of years, this is China A traditional study of beauty, which is more subtle and elegant.
What is the difference between the tools of opera makeup and modern makeup?
Few colors are used in traditional opera makeup, that is, flesh, red, and black. The color is very simple, but the difficulty is that it is too simple, just like a traditional Chinese musical instrument with three strings, but it must produce a variety of sounds.
Orientals take white as their beauty, so the base color is basically a flesh-pink oil, which will be very bright on the stage. The costumes of opera are very bright, and the headgear is also bright, so the skin needs to be fairer, in order to compete with the gorgeous clothes and gorgeous headgear.
Also, we have the wet rouge, which is a bit of a coral red with tangerine in the pink. This is a red oil paint used as a primer. The circle around the actor's eyes is red, which is to use wet rouge as a primer, then set the makeup after the primer, and add dry powder rouge, so that the color will seep from the inside. After setting the makeup, we use black oil paint to outline the eye sockets.
There are some other colors of oil paint that are used for makeup. Maybe you haven't seen these strange things at all. They don't look like cosmetics, like paint boxes. In fact, opera makeup is just like Chinese painting.
Actors will move and sweat after a performance, so the tinting power and durability of the colors should be strong. Opera makeup is very strange, you can't go wrong, if you do it wrong, you have to wash your face and start over.
Others asked, many people look different, why are they all so good-looking in the end? This is where opera makeup is so powerful, you can change your face shape through patches! And life makeup mainly changes the face shape through light and dark contrast such as shadows.
For people with narrow faces, stick the film back; for people with wide faces, stick the film forward; for people with long faces, you can stick the film higher; for people with short faces, you can put the film down... through the film, and the forehead The seven small bends posted on it are used to adjust the actor's face shape and try to move closer to the most perfect direction.
Some characters are more acerbic and may receive special treatment. For example, for Wang Xifeng, who has a tricky personality, we will stick a crooked peach.
The makeup of opera actors is so thick, like a mask, how can the audience feel that their faces are not fake and not like shells? It is also through the patch that the makeup of the face and the hair of the head are connected to achieve the effect of flowing clouds and water, poetic and picturesque. This is the best makeup method summed up by the ancestors who have been practicing and researching for many years.
Working photo of Sanbao and Yinzheng
Makeup is like this, with the profession, not with the characters. It has nothing to do with the specific person. For example, the faces of Wang Baochuan and Yang Guifei, we all tend to be pretty, because they belong to the Tsing Yi industry.How to distinguish characters? clothing. Red is rarely used. It is only used for weddings, birthdays, and happy events at home. White is generally used for funerals, and some people are particularly noble and upright, and white is also used, but embroidery is required. Black, green, and royal blue are generally used more for painted faces. The upper five colors, such as red, black, white, etc., are generally used more by the main actor because the weight is heavier. The lower five colors, such as lake color, pink, etc., are generally used more by non-starring actors. We call them "Second Road".
The head face (headgear) is also related to the character of the character. When you see the head face, you will know what kind of character this person is.
The head and face of the dotted silk is made of silk, which is usually worn by noble ladies and has a more dignified character; the face of the rhinestone, also called the face of the bright head, is shiny and is usually worn by lively and cheerful little girls and jasper; the face of the silver head is made of silver , elegant, atmospheric, clean, usually worn by poor people, such as Wang Baochuan.
There are also silk flowers, sand chrysanthemums, camellias, bluebells, dianthus flowers... The 87th edition of "A Dream of Red Mansions" basically uses opera flowers, which are very beautiful. Wang Xifeng loves wearing sand chrysanthemums. I have a lot of silk flowers from the fifties. These headgear should pay attention to moisture, and some silver-plated places will oxidize.
Practice makeup, you can also practice on your own face, try to replace as many people as possible. When I first started doing makeup, I practiced against myself every night until two or three o'clock. In any art, it takes a lot of hard work to do it well.
I am left-handed and both hands can melt. I use my left hand to apply makeup to myself, and my right hand to apply makeup to others. The effect is different because the two hands feel different. When time is very tight, we sit face-to-face with the actors, just like painting, with pens in both hands, very fast. You must practice. People who learn to draw must be able to use both hands when facing the drawing board. Therefore, opera makeup is similar to traditional Chinese painting.
I also have students in Thailand and Japan, and I found that all eastern countries regard white as their beauty.
Kong Opera is the national drama of Thailand. In 2017, I went to Thailand to communicate and found that the makeup method is the same, and the makeup is the same. They also do traction, they also need to wrap their heads, and lift their eyebrows and eyes with water gauze, so that people are very energetic and look brighter. So are we.
In 2014, I communicated in a museum in Japan. They put on kabuki makeup, I put on Peking opera makeup, they also do traction, also use headbands, also use oil paint, and even use the same brand as us. I think it is very interesting, the culture is really similar.
Yin Zheng plays Shang Xirui, Yang Guifei looks like
Yin Zheng plays Shang Xirui and looks like Xiao Fengxian
When the TV series "The Sideburns Are Not Begonia Red" was filmed, I followed him for about half a year and was the main makeup artist of Yin Zheng (played by Shang Xirui).Yin Zheng is very interesting, why do I like him so much? He is very dedicated, and he is in awe of opera.
Yin Zheng is a man after all, so he has to wear very thick makeup to look like a woman. The patch will definitely be uncomfortable after a long time, the eyebrows will be very tight, and there may be a lack of oxygen. I told you to loosen it up a little, or be lazy, but Yin Zheng said: "Teacher, you can do whatever you want, you don't have to feel bad." I, I can bear it, I must ensure the quality of the shooting.
I am very moved. Opera actors do this all the year round, they know the problem and can adapt. As a film and television actor, he was exposed to opera for the first time. He covered his head and face with heavy makeup, and he was dazed after wrapping it up. The filming took more than ten hours, and I couldn't remove my makeup, because as soon as I removed my makeup, I had to start all over again. The filming scene was very cold, and he couldn't be allowed to wear a lot of clothes. The men are bigger and need to wear very thin clothes. What should I do? Only overcome.
Yin Zheng's facial lines are not very soft. His eyebrows and humerus and nose line are very hard, so when turning his eyebrows, he will be more curved, not too straight, and soften the hard lines of his eyebrows and humerus; his eyes should be as round as possible, not so slender; his lips are also very smooth. Round, like Korean lips, with two semi-circles on the top and one half-circle on the bottom... Through these means, he made his face softer.
Bai Bing (played by Jiang Mengping) is very beautiful, and I only did it for half an hour. Some people are beautiful, but they don't necessarily turn out beautiful, and some people don't look good, but they turn out beautiful. Bai Bing looks beautiful and looks good when it turns out.
Tan Jianci (played by Chen Renxiang) is very beautiful, but not very good, his face is too three-dimensional. In fact, opera makeup, the face is more elegant and flat, not too three-dimensional or too modern, and it looks good.
To transform a face, I now need 50 minutes to an hour, plus half an hour of combing my hair, about an hour and a half.
The makeup of this show is not the same as it is now. Because the background of the story is 1937, we have to imitate the makeup method of the opera at that time, read a lot of old photos, and copy them into the TV series, including hair accessories and headgear.
The crew was very attentive and spent a lot of money. For the costumes of the opera, Yin Zheng probably had more than 20 sets, plus other people's costumes, the cost of costumes probably cost more than 1 million. A piece of clothing is tens of thousands, pure handmade, you can imagine how high the quality of the craftsmanship is.
What I feel most deeply is that everyone is centered on opera, and they do things with respect and awe. From stage art, props, costumes to actors, everyone put their hearts into it, so they did a good job.
Zhang Jun plays Zhang Ruoxu, photo courtesy of Shanghai Grand Theater in black gauze shape
Tan Jianci plays Chen Renxiang, white gauze
Zhang Jun and I have also worked together for many years, and his newly-edited Kunqu Opera "Spring River, Flowers and Moonlight Night" has been performing consistently and every venue is full."Spring River, Flowers and Moonlight Night" is a famous poem by Zhang Ruoxu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Screenwriter Luo Zhou took this as an inspiration to create a Kunqu Opera of the same name, telling a story that has gone through 50 years and crossed the three worlds of human, ghost, and immortal. It's poignant, romantic, and extremely idealistic.
Zhang Ruoxu will wear black veil in several scenes. Why wear black veil? Black gauze represents the soul on the stage of opera. Zhang Ruoxu died at the age of 27. He died for love, lived for love, entered the underworld with his soul, and then returned to the world to meet his lover Xin Yi.
Why is the heroine called Xin Yi? Xinyi is the purple magnolia, which is light and elegant. Taking flowers as a metaphor for people, Xinyi is like a purple magnolia, beautiful, clean, and very cold. She is a cold beauty. She has an admiration for Zhang Ruoxu, but she remains silent. The medicinal value of Xin Yi is sexual flatness, so it is also Zhang Ruoxu's love medicine... The screenwriter's mind is quite interesting. You know these will be very interesting to watch the drama again.
In "The Sideburns Are Not Begonia Red", Chen Renxiang and Shang Xirui fought in the ring, playing Yan Poxi, wearing white gauze. That scene is called "Soul Road", the soul walks on the road, and the ghost walks underneath it, just like floating. Du Liniang also wears white gauze in the "Secluded Concubine" in the Kunqu Opera "Peony Pavilion".
It is possible to wear white or black gauze. As long as the veil is covered, it is basically a ghost. With black yarn as the standard. The white yarn will be fresher, representing a ghost. Generally, men wear black gauze, and women use a touch of pink, white with pink, a little sequins, and a flower ball. For a scene like "Li Huiniang", a large flower ball is used.
As soon as the yarn came out, it was very ethereal. The whole person seems to be "atomized", and with ghost steps, basically you can't see the bumps of your feet, like slipping forward with pulley thorns, like a soul flying around.
There are also thread tails (the black slender rope behind the head of the horn, representing the hair), (in ghost dramas), instead of wearing real thread tails, they wear a rectangular black gauze, which is fastened to the back of the head with a clip, so that the actor is in the When lying on the cloud, turning in circles, and turning over, it will not be messy, and when walking, the black gauze can float up, and it is more like a ghost.
Ghosts generally wear rhinestone heads, shiny and gauze, under the illumination of lights, they are more like ghosts, more ethereal, and more illusory.
The lighting on the stage is also very particular. When a good person dies, it is yellow light. You see Lin Daiyu in Yue Opera, and finally burnt the manuscript to break the infatuation. As soon as she left, slap, the yellow light came down, which means she was promoted to immortal. When the bad guy dies, it's blue light, which means hell. Hell is blue and green.
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