Chinese Opera

By: April

Info About Mask Changing

• There are sometimes ten masks in

layers over the actors face. It started

three hundred years ago, and the

trick is a secret of how the actors

doing it. Most times the secret is

handed down from family to family.

Picture Not a Video Of Mask Changing

What The Colors Of The Mask Means

• The colors of the masks show what

the emotions of the characters are,

for ex. Purple means: Uprightness ,

sophistication and cool headedness.

Green means: The character is,

Impulsive, violent and stubborn.

Topic Change To: Acrobats Of Peking Opera

• The Chinese peking opera includes a

lot of stretching and jumping through

obstacles. The acrobats probably

have to go through a lot of training to

do all the jumping and flipping.

Chinese Acrobats

Final Topic Change: How The Music Sounds

• The instruments are really different

compared to America’s opera instruments,

for example: They used an instrument

called a “Zither” which was invented three

hundred years ago. They also used a lot of

strings instead of horns like America.

What A Zither Looks Like

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