The actors in
Chinese Opera, known in
Thai as
ngiw, are —sometimes
heavily— covered with make-up called
lian pu,
in which the colours and patterns represent a certain cha-racter, as well as a quality
of the individual.
In addition, the
players dress in colourful cos-tumes and more often than
not they also wear conspicuous headdress-es, as seen with
these souvenir figurines.