Our Beijing opera mask artist, Mr. Duan Guosheng sent us an article about the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Beijing opera mask patterns have been selected to decorate the buses for 2008 Beijing Olympic buses.
According to China Daily:
"One red and black bus is fully covered with opera masks, with a semitransparent jing's mask painted on the front. All the masks were chosen from the classic Chinese novel Romance of Three Kingdoms, combining two main characters' (Guan Yu and Jiang Wei) facial features in Peking opera.
The designer said that Peking opera is one of China's seminal cultural elements and that to choose the opera mask is to combine the traditional Chinese culture with the humanistic Olympics. The red color stands for devotion and loyalty, and the black represents honesty and righteousness. This type of bus will mainly operate in the Olympic activity fields and media village in 2008."
