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Shake a Face (变脸)

Shake your iPhone, get a brand new face. Enjoy the facinating culture on your iPhone, 48 beautiful faces, a piece of Chinese culture wherever you are. What face will you get? What do the faces mean? Just give it a shake.

**Background**
Bian Lian (simplified Chinese: 变脸; traditional Chinese: 變臉; pinyin: Biàn Liǎn; literally "Face-Changing") is an ancient Chinese dramatic art that is part of the more general Sichuan opera. Performers wear brightly colored costumes and move to quick, dramatic music. They also wear vividly colored masks, which they change within a fraction of a second.

**Heritage**
The face changing, or "bian lian" in Chinese, is an important aspect of Chinese Sichuan opera. Performers wave their arms and twist their heads, and their painted masks change again and again and again. Face changing began 300 years ago, during the reign of the Qing Dynasty Emperor Qianlong (1736-1795). At the beginning opera masters changed the color of their face during performances by blowing into a bowl of red, black or gold powder. The powder would...

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Last changed:

Apr 01, 2009

Category:

Entertainment

Developer:

MyMedia

Version:

1.1

Average Rating:

2.50 (192)

Size:

2.0 MB

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