Mask of Beijing Opera is a plastic art peculiar to the Chinese stage, whose history is also far back. As early as the Tang Dynasty, people drew the masks with various designs of lines and coloured patches and then put them on faces. The feature of mask of Beijing Opera in the Song and the Yuan Dynasty is to draw the pigment on the face directly. This kind of art was developed further during the Ming and the Qing Dynasties. It was the first appearance of facial makeup of Beijing Opera that led the mask art into a new realm.

    The most important feature of facial makeup of Beijing Opera is that it delineates the figure's disposition, morality and status with varied plans of pigment.

    For example, red and black faces represent good guys, white and yellow faces represent evil ones, blue and green faces represent warrior, and golden, silver faces represent deity. Beijing Opera, a quintessential element of Chinese culture, categorizes different dramatic figures by means of colorful facial makeup, bringing out the sharp contrast between the good and the evil, between beautiful and ugly. It is needless to say the art of mask of Beijing Opera is one of the distinguished artistic styles.

    Nowadays the mask is not only a simple stage makeup form, but also a kind of artwork in itself. It has unique taste value and its color ,disposition and line can give much novel enlightenment to many close art branches. The traditional art of mask of Beijing Opera is exaggeration, and vivid expression. The works are elaborate, unique, and vividly constructed, which have high viewing and collecting values, thus being greatly loved by people both domestic and abroad . With the emerge of " Beijing Opera Rush" , mask of Beijing Opera has been becoming the focus again among the enthusiasts in many countries such as the U.S, British, Germany, Sweden, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Australia.