Red Chinese Opera Mask

A mask wearer or chinese opera actor with a face make-up style in red, black and white (known as Guan Yu) implies a very loyal and honest character. Red indicates loyalty, sincerity and bravery. Black signifies a good, vigorous character.

The traits implied by the different parts of the beard can't be described in a few words here. A simple explanation is that unadorned, long and smooth beards in black, grey or white show age and maturity, black is for the prime of life, grey covers the autumn of life and white equates to old age and possibly wisdom.

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