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Watching his hand gestures, let us check it out and probe further on its meanings.
Learning the Chinese opera, performers use orchid petal formations with their hands to convey meanings. The concept was most intriguing. Human hands have five digits that bend and twist in predictable manners. The Chinese orchid has five petals pointing in pleasing directions. The hands of a performer could be manipulated to focus attention : an observer’s eyes usually are drawn to the flowers at the heart of a grassy framework of orchid leaves. This is called Orchid Petal handiwork.
The Beijing/Peking opera actor credited with codifying (if not inventing) hand signals with definitive meanings and one of them was the late Mei Lanfang.
The following are the Finger patterns :
(pics below 🔽)
1 "Sword battle": Yu Ji used this movement when she performed the sword dance in Farewell My Concubine.
2 "Pointing Hollowly": Zhao Yanrong used this pattern when she said "I'm going to heaven" in Beauty Defies Tyranny.
3 "Unfolding palm": Used by male characters appearing in battle scenes.
4 "Orchid finger": A typical finger pattern for actresses, emphasizing their femininity.
5 "Holding the fan upside-down": Yang Yuhuan used this finger pattern when she held her fan in The Drunken Beauty.
6 "Fist": Also used in battle scenes.
Not forgetting that he got such a beautiful pair of hands too
🖐🖐
Watching his hand gestures, let us check it out and probe further on its meanings.
Learning the Chinese opera, performers use orchid petal formations with their hands to convey meanings. The concept was most intriguing. Human hands have five digits that bend and twist in predictable manners. The Chinese orchid has five petals pointing in pleasing directions. The hands of a performer could be manipulated to focus attention : an observer’s eyes usually are drawn to the flowers at the heart of a grassy framework of orchid leaves. This is called Orchid Petal handiwork.
The Beijing/Peking opera actor credited with codifying (if not inventing) hand signals with definitive meanings and one of them was the late Mei Lanfang.
The following are the Finger patterns :
(pics below 🔽)
1 "Sword battle": Yu Ji used this movement when she performed the sword dance in Farewell My Concubine.
2 "Pointing Hollowly": Zhao Yanrong used this pattern when she said "I'm going to heaven" in Beauty Defies Tyranny.
3 "Unfolding palm": Used by male characters appearing in battle scenes.
4 "Orchid finger": A typical finger pattern for actresses, emphasizing their femininity.
5 "Holding the fan upside-down": Yang Yuhuan used this finger pattern when she held her fan in The Drunken Beauty.
6 "Fist": Also used in battle scenes.
Not forgetting that he got such a beautiful pair of hands too
🖐🖐
