In Chinese opera, the masks help the audience instantly recognize ... male spiders might use their patterns and colors to tell a female spider they're the same species and are a viable mate ...

Japanese women mask their faces on days when they don ... Masks worn in traditional Chinese opera historically hid performers’ identity, the commentary says. In Taiwan, older people add ...

In Peking opera, there are four main types of roles: sheng (male), dan (young female ... jing's mask painted on the front. All the masks were chosen from the classic Chinese novel Romance ...

However, truth is that these masks are more than seemingly as added decorations. Chinese opera masks are significant in a way that they represent the performers’ or characters’ personalities, intense ...

The show features pieces from Xu’s own collection of masks, costumes, fans and models as well as 10 contemporary artworks she solicited on the theme of Chinese opera. Also on display are 20 ...

It was actually during the Song dynasty that substantial representations of painted faces were revealed in the tomb murals. And accordingly, this later evolved into something more artistic, creative, ...

One quaint aspect of Peking Opera is the face paint ... a widely accepted understanding in Chinese theatrical circles that face painting developed from the masks used in a musical dance called ...

A Chinese performer has been wowing crowds in Sichuan province with his face changing skills. He Hongqing is an expert in the ancient art which is at the heart of traditional Sichuan Opera. He is able ...

But these masked-wearers aren't robbers raiding a bank - they're middle-aged women at the beach and ... are donning these slightly scary nylon masks to protect themselves when they take to ...

China's Volleyball Association has apologised after several of its national team players wore N95 masks during a match. Players on the country's women's team wore masks during the first set of ...