In the early days of the men's class, male actors untied their braids, put them into buns and put flowers in them. This was the earliest hairstyle and headwear. Later, he performed costume dramas imitating Shao operas. String small glass tubes into rows to decorate the bun, and decorate the bun with top flowers. When I studied Peking Opera in the 1920s, I had to make big heads. Since I had no choice but to prepare a complete set of "heads and faces", I switched to using wooden or iron sheets to make shaped water sheets. The whole set of heads and faces was rarely used to decorate the performance. Since the birth of the female troupe, because actresses have braids, they have been used as "hair curtains" and top-quality wigs for "baotou". In conjunction with the "private costumes" of clothing, "copper foam buns" are used to learn Peking Opera (such as " The headgear used by Wang Baochuan in "Farewell Kiln"), "rhinestone Baotou" (such as Yan Lanzhen in "Panfusuofu"), and "point-colored Baotou" (such as Mrs. Li in "Jasper Hairpin"). In the early 1940s, when Yuan Xuefen acted in "Heng Niang", she changed to using her own hair to comb her costume hair, and used the head and face accessories as needed. After that, the actors began to reform their headdresses, looking for basis from the paintings of ancient costume ladies, and began to create the unique ancient hairstyles and headdresses of Yue opera actors. The headdresses were changed from complex to simple, and from ornate to elegant. They mainly wore pearls and phoenixes on their heads, and the decorative flowers were endless. Many, with the characteristics of simplicity and liveliness. In the 1950s, wigs and headgear were made to save time for hairstyle needs and makeup.
The helmets of Yue Opera. The helmets worn by male troupes in early Yue Opera performances in traditional operas were borrowed from everyday scholar hats or melon-skin hats with forehead jade. Some were removed from the heads of Bodhisattva statues during the demolition of dilapidated small temples. helmet. In the future, we will rent Shao Opera and Peking Opera costumes and helmets. After the women's class entered Shanghai, the main actors had "private costumes". The costumes and helmets they wore were bought at Nan Hengtai Color Boots Store or Guangdong Road Costume Store. Other actors who wore "tall attire" wore rented costumes and helmets. These helmets basically inherit the hat box system of Peking Opera or Kun Opera. For example, the helmets worn by young students in "Tears of Incense" and "Butterfly Lovers" are all Wen Sheng scarves from Peking Opera.
In the new historical drama, Yue Opera combines the "Jinxian Crown", "Fangshan Crown", "Tongtian Crown", "Faith Crown", "Fa Crown" and "Qiaoshi Crown" in historical life. "Guan", "缁cloth crown", etc. were improved and applied to stage characters. The traditional phoenix crown is worn by queens, concubines and princesses, and women also wear this kind of phoenix crown during wedding ceremonies. Except for the phoenix crowns still worn in traditional Yue Opera plays, the phoenix crowns filled with pom-poms are generally no longer worn in other plays. For example, the princess and queen in "The Golden Bough", the queen in "Changle Palace", and Meng Lijun in "Meng Lijun" all changed the phoenix crown into a forehead shape, or installed it, with bun hair exposed on the head. Phoenix is ??placed on both sides, or the main phoenix is ??placed on the side, and the side phoenix is ??placed on both sides, and then "Ruyi", "Single Phoenix", "Bu Yao" and other headdresses are worn.