Costume
CHINESEOPERACOUSTUME Rule Of the coustume
There is a common saying in the opera circles: “I would rather wear it, not wear it wrong”. This sentence does not allow actors to wear ragged and unsightly costumes, but emphasizes the seriousness of the problem of “wearing the wrong costumes”.Is really to make people laugh.So if you before you buy the costumes You must understand all the details of the role you play.If you simply pay attention to the bright and gorgeous costumes themselves, and distort and destroy the characters, this is an unforgivable mistake on the opera stage.
“Python robes”
Taken from the official dress of the imperial court. Most of the pythons are the general dresses of emperors, generals, concubines and ministers in operas. The patterns of the pythons are mostly on the lower part of the front and back of the robe. The whole body of the male python is embroidered with the dragon and the female python is slightly shorter. Embroidered dragon or phoenix drawings.
Armor
Commonly used by soldiers in ancient times was a battle gown commonly used by generals in operas. Its style is: round neck, encirclement collar, tight cuffs, two pieces of armor standing on the front and back, reaching to the foot, slightly wider in the middle of the front piece, called “belt belly”, embroidered tiger head shape on the armor belly is called “wu armor “Belly”; only embroidered with general patterns, so-called “the pattern of wen armour belly armour is mostly fish scale pattern or T-shaped pattern, to simulate the nail plate on the armour
Pleats
Casual clothes that are widely used in the play, and can be worn by military commanders and ordinary people without scholars. It is a large right gusset, diagonal collar, pleated body length and feet, body width, and sleeves. Women’s pleats are double breasted, small round stand-up collar, and slightly shorter body length. There are two types of patterns on pleats: those with patterns embroidered on the pleats are called “flower pleats”, and those without embroidery are called “plain pleats”.
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