Appreciation Of The Exaggerated Beauty Of Chinese Traditional Opera Costumes

Drama on the stage is an artistic creation. After matching the scenery, lighting and character costumes, it becomes a picture of harmony and harmony in composition.

The costume of opera is an important part of stage art, and the beauty of opera costumes is beyond doubt. It is the beautification of ancient costumes and the re creation of art.

It is understood that traditional opera costumes have some exaggerated beauty.

Opera costumes

Traditional opera costumes, commonly known as "costumes", are mainly made up of clothing in the Ming Dynasty, blending the styles of costumes from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty.

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One of the characteristics of opera costumes is nested style.

From the emperor to the servant, the prisoner, the beggar, and all kinds of people, there are special clothing sets that match the roles, status, occupations, occasions and even personalities.

The same is the prime minister, the court should wear "mink", home wearing "phase towel".

Cao Cao in the battle Wan City is not long wearing the emperor. He wears a "mink". Cao Cao in "Xiaoyao Jin" has "made the princes" for nearly twenty years. Wearing the "mink" that represents the status of the prime minister is not enough. He wants Dai Jinlv's POM balls and the golden winged wings on both sides.

This costume series is mainly formed by the two generation of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and is the accumulation of many artists' creation. This is closely related to the development of Peking Opera in the past two hundred years.

"Traditional opera costumes"

It is the official uniform of the emperors and generals, the circular collar, the embroidered cloud dragon and other patterns, the symbolic decoration on the bottom and cuffs, and the emperor wearing the Yellow Dragon python, which will wear other colors of the dragon dragon.

There are also "female pythons", which are the royal clothes of the concubines, the ladies of the Imperial Palace, the women's generals, the embroidered Danfeng Chaoyang or the Phoenix peony.

In the history, the two dynasties emperors of the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were not as strict as the song and Ming Dynasties in monopolization of the dragon.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the image of "real dragon" was set as two corners of five claws. Other dragon and dragon like "dragon" and "Ru Yunlong" can only be four claws or three claws.

The Ming Dynasty is different. In order to avoid confusion, apart from the four claws and three claws called pythons, they are different from those of the five claws, and they are strictly forbidden to wear Python clothing.

In the sixteen years of Jiajing, Zhang Zun, a soldier of the Ministry of military affairs, wore something resemble a python pattern. Ming Shi Zun was furious. He asked the Minister of the summer palace to say: "the two books of the Shang Dynasty, and why he took the python"?

Jiajing

He said, "why did the flying fish embroider two horns?"

Under such circumstances, how can a play make the emperor and the imperial concubine wear "Python" together? Therefore, the python in the costume series is impossible to appear in the Ming Dynasty.

In the Qing Dynasty, the emperor, the empress, the prince and the prince used the Dragon Robe, and the prince, Beller, Bei, Zhen Guo Gong, Fu Guo Gong and Wen Wu three products all used Python robes.

According to the series of drama costumes, the Royal costume of kings and emperors is called "Python", which fully accords with the concept of dress in the Qing Dynasty.

As for the emperor's royal clothing in the play, it is also called the python, but only because the emperor is a "actor".