Jing

Jing

Painted Face Male Role

A Jing role is a prominent male character with striking looks and high social position. Both positive and negative characters can be played in this role. His robust, gruff, bass voice, and grotesquely painted face, together with his swaggering self-assertive manner, all combine to make him the most forceful personality in most scenes in which he appears. People can know the role’s character based on his face color: red for good, black for brave, upright or reckless, white for treacherous and cunning, yellow for brutal, blue for wild.

Three main types of Jing are Tongchui, good at singing and usually a loyal general; Jiazi, good at acting with less emphasis on singing; and Wujing, a martial arts and acrobatics role.

Chinese Opera

Peking Opera

1949

Sheng

Chinese

Character

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