Vintage Chinese Opera Mask 👺🎭🧧🎭 Dual side Key Chain ✨👺🧧🎭✨🧧👺🎭 Rare

Vintage Chinese Opera Mask 👺🎭🧧🎭 Dual side Key Chain ✨👺🧧🎭✨🧧👺🎭 Rare I like something unique & weird 😆, so finding this key chain is fun for me & hope you’ll appreciate the weirdness & beauty of this piece!!! 🎭👺✨ Here’s a little trivia: The most visually arresting features of Chinese opera are the bold & colorful masks worn by the performers. These masks hearken back to an ancient tradition of face-painting among warriors and, as with war paint, the colors and patterns bear symbolic meanings. The spirit and personality of each character is effectively color coded. Wikipedia nicely summarizes the meaning of each color of mask with the following handy chart (which I have copied verbatim): White: sinister, evil, crafty, treacherous, and suspicious. Anyone wearing a white mask is usually the villain. Green: impulsive, violent, no self restraint or self control. Red: brave, loyal. Black: rough, fierce, or impartial. Yellow: ambitious, fierce, cool-headed. Blue: steadfast, someone who is loyal and sticks to one side no matter what. Additionally gold and silver faces represent mystery and aloofness. Of course the masks are often not real masks on stage but elaborate make-up and costuming so that the players can sing and pantomime to extravagant and wondrous effect (and so that patrons can appreciate pretty faces).