Emotional Stories: 101 Faces of Gender

Author: Jiang Lan
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: "I can't quite see your expression?" This is a popular phrase online, and it's not necessarily mocking someone wearing sunglasses to look cool. It mostly means that you're facing trouble and have zero expressive features. The face is a natural feature of the face; sociologically speaking, a mask is a self-protection membrane for the face in a specific context. With time spent immersed in society, people have clearly distinguished their faces into faces and multiple masks. The various artificial modifications of the face reveal the changes in social fashion and elegance, but as cunning becomes more complex, the biological meaning of the face becomes increasingly faint, while the sociological meaning of the mask becomes more sophisticated and worldly. This presents a paradox: it's not that the more complex the expression, the harder to read, but rather that the face, as a feature of language, is infinitely approaching the restoration of the abstract meaning of the inner self. Therefore, our faces and masks are becoming containers of meaning.