Xue Ba - Ugly Clown Face

Ugly Clown Face

Clown Face is also called three-flower face or little flower face. Caricature is used to produce comical effects. A distinctive feature is a white patch painted over the nose ridge, which may be square, round, triangular, or diamond-shaped, depending on the role. The way the eyes, brows, nose, mouth, and facial expressions are depicted also differs. Many very different roles use clown makeup; detestable rogues and lovable children; misers and philanthropists; corrupt officials and upright judges; emperors, kings, officers, down to standard bearers, mule drivers, and news vendors. Thus there are many kinds of clowns---warrior clowns, civilian clowns, old clowns, wicked clowns, buffoons.

Xue Ba with an ugly clown face plays a part in the opera "Wild Boar Forest." He is one of the two guards ordered to murder Lin Chong in the forest.