What are the characteristics of costumes and headdresses of Beijing opera characters?
The costumes and headdresses of Peking Opera figures are mostly based on the costumes of the Ming Dynasty. They are decorated with costumes of Tang, Song, Yuan and Qing Dynasties, and are created according to the needs of performing beauty and stage color beauty, regardless of dynasty, region and season. However, there are strict differences in style, color and pattern in the costumes of people's identity, position and age. The costumes of Beijing Opera are called "costumes", which are divided into trunk (pythons, trousers, official clothes, curtains, pleats, etc. Literary figures wear), the second torso (big underpants, arrow clothes, hugging clothes, etc. Martial arts wear), the third torso (colored shoes, colored pants, water clothes, fat coats, etc. ) and helmet headbox (1). The helmet head of Beijing opera can be divided into four categories: helmet, hat, towel and crown. According to the characteristics of characters' identity, age and status, they are distinguished in style, color and decoration. In addition to helmets, the colors of men's feet include water hair, bun, unkempt head and baby hair. There are three hairstyles for women's feet: big head, flag head and costume head, all of which are covered with film, regardless of age and region. The big head is only used to distinguish the identity and age of the characters by wearing different jade, diamonds and silver bubble jewelry (heads). There is a difference between Lao Dan pulling a net and silk strips, and wearing Lao Dan's crown and pulling a bun. The mouth (also called mouth surface) worn by characters can be divided into two forms, the long ones are full, three and three, and the short ones are one word, two characters, four happiness, five pinch, eight characters, hanging, adding mouth and so on. Later, after improvement, there are three locks, five locks and other patterns, and the color is roughly divided into black.