In Peking opera, there are four main types of roles: sheng (male), dan (young female), jing (painted face, male), and chou (clown, male or female). The buses chose the jing's mask designs to be ...

Peking Opera roles include sheng (male role), dan (female role), jing (painted-face male role), and chou ... Some people argue that the facial make-up is similar to the mask.

It is said that the original Peking Opera masks, which appeared about 150 years ago, were based on the masks worn by ancient warriors. Peking Opera has four types of characters: sheng, dan, jing ...

Zhao Yongqi said, "At first I learned to draw Peking opera masks on dried clay molds, but only during my spare time. To make ends meet, I had to take various part-time jobs as a boiler man, a ...

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China’s famous ‘face-kini’ gets Peking Opera-inspired facelift By . Reuters. Published July 15, ... They put on a mask made for the beach, and fondly known as a face-kini.

China’s cyclists at the Olympics have some impressive headgear – helmets featuring faces and masks from Chinese Opera. It makes for an impressive sight as they speed around the velodrome at ...

China's famous 'face-kini' gets Peking Opera-inspired facelift. By Joseph Campbell. July 15, 2015 10:49 ... told Reuters she never imagined here mask would become so popular with about 30,000 of ...