CHINESE OPERA MASK STUDY GUIDE

1. CHINESE OPERA MASKSTUDY GUIDE

2. The meanings behind Chinese Opera Mask • The main color in a facial makeup symbolizes the disposition of the character. The facial makeups date a long time back to the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) dynasties at least. Simple patterns of painted faces are found in tomb murals of that age. During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), improvements were made in the skills of drawing and in preparing the paints, leading to the whole set of colorful facial patterns that we see in today's Jingju (Beijing Opera).

3. Chinese Opera Mask Examples

11. Describe Yourself(Answer these questions…)Who are you? What things make you who you are? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

12. Sketch out the design you plan to use.

13. How does your description relate to the mask you chose to design? • __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

14. Creating a Chinese Opera Mask

16. Students From China

22. My Student Examples

28. Resources • http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Opera/index.html • http://www.chinesenames.org/name-translation/j/j13.htm