Mashao facial makeup is a characteristic handicraft of Han nationality in Shaanxi, belonging to Baoji Shehuo facial makeup. In Shaanxi folk, there is still the custom of playing social fire during the Spring Festival. Ma Shao facial makeup of Fengxiang folk society fire, referred to as Ma Shao facial makeup, is a new folk handicraft art developed on the basis of inheriting the facial makeup of Xifu folk society fire. It evolved from China folk social fire facial makeup.
The local people painted the characters in fairy tales on the horse spoon, hence the name. Ma Shao is made of wood, which is simple to make and necessary for farmers and villagers in past dynasties. Painting is both simple and complicated. People use it to hang a room to ward off evil spirits and express their good wishes for happiness and good luck, so Ma Shao's face has won people's love and admiration. With the inheritance and development of modern folk artists, Ma Shao's facial makeup has become a treasure in Han folk art. ..
Social fire facial makeup is a composition of social fire facial makeup with a horse spoon as the painting "paper" and social fire facial makeup as the content. Sketch and color, and pay attention to the decoration of eyebrows, eyes and mouth. Based on the character and appearance characteristics of the characters, the parts and skin colors of the five senses are exaggerated, and then the inner essence of all kinds of characters is highlighted. Eyebrows of social fire masks can be divided into the following categories: eyebrows: pimple eyebrows, comb eyebrows, silk eyebrows, Taishan eyebrows: flat eyes, loyal eyes, residual eyes and animal eyes.
It emphasizes color contrast, feels bold and unrestrained, and has strong symbolic significance, such as: red is brave, white is a traitor, black is steel, straight gray is brave, yellow is fierce and rough blue, and so on. Shaanxi Shehuo Mashao facial makeup, with its gorgeous colors, simple and honest style, simple and unique artistic modeling, shows the profoundness of traditional opera. Mashao facial makeup, with its long history and mysterious and profound cultural connotation, is deeply loved by people at home and abroad. Its ornamentation proves that the original symbols on painted pottery five or six thousand years ago were completely inherited on Facebook. According to the appearance and personality characteristics of the characters, the social fire mask uses different combinations of decorative patterns such as sun and moon patterns, fire patterns, vortex patterns and frog patterns to express the characters' personality.
Distinguish the characters' loyalty, treachery, goodness and evil by color. Red is loyalty, white is treachery, black is righteousness, yellow is brutality, blue is barbarism, green is chivalry and evil, and gold and silver are gods and demons. Wooden spoon facial makeup is deeply loved by people at home and abroad, with a history of 1500 years. In the Guanzhong area of western Shaanxi Province and southern Shaanxi Province, it was once popular in history to use wooden spoons with colorful and good graphics to ward off evil spirits. Whenever something happens at home, such as a small population and unexpected disasters, please ask the social fire painter to draw a beautiful figure on the spoon of the water-scooping wooden horse on weekdays and hang it on the door frame or under the porch. It is said that it can ward off evil spirits in the town house.