Where is the base of Beijing Opera and Kunqu Opera?

2/kloc-0 At the beginning of the century, people will still remember the first time they met the blue fox. It was a poor and humble middle-aged woman, wearing a cotton-padded jacket with sleeves and a big nest, and her sallow face was shiny. Anyone can't help looking at her. She is so interesting. The positive impression of her face is hexagonal, with the frontal bone, cheekbone and jawbone each forming two vertices. The two cheekbones are tall and wide, and the jawbone is more prominent than the average person. Eyebrows are like two leaves, not willow leaves, but bamboo leaves.

Near the bridge of the nose, where the eyebrows rise, is the bottom of an acute triangle.

The vertex is at both ends of the frontal angle, slender and powerful, as if it were drawn with a brush. It can also be said that it is two sharp knives. The handle is near the bridge of the nose, extending to both sides, and finally becomes the tip of the knife at the forehead.

Her phoenix eye hangs high, higher than Kunqu Opera in Beijing Opera.

"Blue Fox" has been bought for several years and has been kept in the corner. I heard that Wang Meng took it out to compete for the "Mao Dun Literature Award" this year, so I picked it up and flipped through it. The quotation above is hundreds of words on the first page of this novel.

I have always admired Wang Meng, but this passage ruined my idol. As a former minister of culture in old Beijing, he doesn't know Peking Opera, geometry or porcelain. I don't want to explore the "extremely sharp triangle bottom edge" of Zhu Yeqing's eyebrows here, but I want to talk about the bottom edge of "Beijing Opera and Kunqu Opera".

If you exchange views with Wang Meng face to face, he will not hesitate to equate "the actress of Beijing Opera" with "Kunqu Opera of Beijing Opera", and then ask him what "role" Meng Xiaodong played by Zhang Ziyi is. Maybe he'll be confused. Of course, I will allow him to ask for help on the spot or remotely through telephone or internet. The accurate answer is: Meng Xiaodong is also Kunjiao. Although it is a man on the stage, his eyes are still hanging high. Mei Lanfang, on the other hand, is not "Kunjiao", but plays the role of a woman. Do you understand? If you are dizzy, Chen Kaige will laugh at you: "People can't be so confused!" Brother Kay is very clever. He seized the upside-down business opportunity of "Mei Meng" Gan Kun.

Ok, let me explain again: Kunqu opera is a Beijing opera actor, but not necessarily a woman. Old students, young students, martial arts students, face painting and ugliness can all be played by Kun Jiao, also known as "Hannah Quinlivan"; Moreover, many actresses in Beijing Opera are actors, such as four famous roles and four famous roles. As for the less well-known Si Kundan, she disguised herself as a man. This is probably what Wang Meng thinks of as "Kundan in Peking Opera".

To sum up: loosely speaking, people are divided into men and women, and the characters in the play are different, but all walks of life in Beijing opera, whether men or women, can fill in. Men usually don't specify their gender ("male Dan" is a new word that gilds the lily and doesn't know how to behave after liberation), while women often use the word "Kun" when they learn to play the clown, just as they used to have to add the word "female" when reporting their surnames to Central Committee members Jiang Qing and Wu Yi.

Note: In Peking Opera costumes, usually only hanging eyebrow (not eyes) is ugly. Mei Lanfang, who is not Kunjiao, should hold up the eyes of the phoenix, and Guan Gong, who is said to have the eyes of the phoenix, should also hold up the eyes of the phoenix. You see, I'm confused myself!