Yang Yansi - Black Broken-Flower Face

Broken-Flower Face

This makeup evolved from the flowered three-tile face. The principal color is on the forehead. Various designs in other colors are added to other parts of the face. These designs vary in shape and composition are executed with small, intricate, and broken lines. The face may be clean shaven, or it may wear a bar-shaped mustache or a black or red zha beard. It usually represents a greenwood outlaw or a rough and uncouth warrior, who may be a positive or a negative character.

Yang Yansi, the seventh son in the opera
Golden Sand Dune," also wears a black broken-flower face. The Chinese character for "tiger," written in cursive script on the forehead, signifies the man's peerless courage.