CHINESE OPERA FOLK ART WOOD HAND CARVED PAINTED NUO MASK

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CHINESE OPERA FOLK ART WOOD HAND CARVED PAINTED NUO MASK VERY NICE
Collectible Handmade Chinese Folk Art Wood Hand Carved Painted NUO MASK Wall decor This exquisite
and unique mask is carved out and painted by hand of folk artists without using any machine in China. This
mask is Dixi = local drama (opera), our folk local drama, also known as Tiaoshen(dancing to the god), is popula
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in Yunnan, Guizhou province. In Chinese Spring-festival, you can see local players who wearing these masks and
muslins, fighting, dancing, waving weapons, performing their favorite ancient war stories in the high-pitched
singing and drum music everywhere in the local village. The local drama is a kind of folk primitive performance
full of humanity and worship for god, exerting great impact on the spiritual aspects of the local people. During
the past 600 years, it has played significant role in enriching people's life and comforting and supporting the
local people spiritually. Today, Dixi local drama is renowned as "living fossil of Chinese dramas" for it provides
abundant resources for research on development of Chinese drama. These mask types of facial makeup in operas
are based on certain personality, temperament or some special types of figures for the use of certain colors. Red
has expressed his Warriors of strong types of facial makeup in operas such as Guan Yu, concubines Victoria,
regular book; Black said the types of facial makeup in operas means criticized people, integrity, bravery and
even reckless, such as Bao Zheng and Zhang Fei, Yellow types of facial makeup in operas that vicious brutality,
such as Yuwen Chengdu, and Dian Wei. Blue or green types of facial makeup in operas that some of the figures
represented irritable, such as Dou Ambassador, Ma Wu; General treacherous court official said the types of facial
makeup in operas white, bad guys, such as Cao Cao, Zhao Gao
Dimensions: Length chin to top of head: 6-1/8 “ inches
Width across face- ear  to ear: 5-3/4” inches
Weight: 5.6 ounces
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