There are several different versions about why there is a white crescent shape mark on his black forehead. One saying goes that a big horse stepped on Bao's face and left him a crescent shape scar as a mark on his forehead when he slept in the pastures way during his childhood.

Another saying states that Bao had an extraordinary ability. He could settle a lawsuit on earth in the daytime and made decisions in the hell at night, and this crescent mark meant that he was able to decide on cases in the hell.

And still there is another saying, which has been extended in its meaning. It says that in the world of the past, there were so many evil people that even in the day time, people still had strong feelings of living in the darkness, so some honest people deliberately light a candle in the daytime.

But Bao who believed in justice, rose a crescent with his candid spirit to his forehead to light up darkness in the world. Most of the scenes about Xiang Yu in Beijing Opera are performed about the failures of his final battle.

There are three “wan” (Chinese Characters) on the head of Xiang Yu (left, right, and the eyeholes in the middle). What does the character “wan” imply? There is a Chinese slang saying “the character ‘wan’ never gets to the end”.

The one who originally designed the facial make-up of Xiang Yu probably implied this meaning, considering that Xiang Yu did not hold on his wish to the last but failed halfway. Zhang Fei's face mask in the Chinese Opera is painted like a butterfly, funny and cute.

In many styles of Chinese Opera, Zhang Fei is a figure in comedy, so the mask shows his typical character. However, in the story of Two Generals, which is about a fighting between Zhang Fei and Ma Chao, Zhang Fei is brave and reckless and not funny at all.

So Shang Heyu, a famous actor, designed another mask of Zhang Fei for this drama. There is another drama in Peking opera named Making White Robes. Guanyu was dead in the battle with Dong Wu, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei. They vowed painfully to get revenge for Guan Yu.

The actors playing Zhang Fei in the Making White Robes always use the same smiling masks, which is obviously funny. But it seems more appropriate to redesign a "crying" mask for Zhang Fei.