摘 要: | Female Roles Makeup for the Jan or female role in Peking Opera endows the actress with an oval face; pointed chin, arched eyebrows, almond shaped eyes, and a rosebud mouth - the idealized Chinese concept of feminine beauty. Whether naturally round or angular, an actress's face can be made to appear perfectly oval with the help of a hairpiece (pian- zi), pasted to her forehead and temples. Other aesthetic attributes are created with the help of white face powder, rouge, lipstick, and black ey…
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