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 (comedic male role), distinguished on the basis of sex, age, and personality.

While they may differ only slightly in costume and makeup, all traditional opera forms, including Peking opera (京剧), are, strictly speaking, "regional," in that each is based on the music and ...

The craft of making traditional opera masks is unique to China. It can be traced back to the 12th century when the first mask appeared in a Song dynasty opera. They're also known as the Painted ...

Performers who play the roles of sheng and dan have only a little makeup on their faces. Painting Peking Opera masks mainly applies to the facial designs for the jing and chou roles.

One of the more recent designs seems to mimic the appearance of Peking Opera performers. Personally, we think these masks defeat the purpose of going to the beach, unless your goal is to scare ...

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 ...

They put on a mask made for the beach, and fondly known as a face-kini. A Chinese woman rocks her face-kini in the Yellow Sea in Qingdao, China on August 21, 2014.

San Francisco Opera will present Bright Sheng and David Henry Hwang’s Dream of the Red Chamber from June 14–July 3 at the War Memorial Opera House..