> Cyber Museum > What is a Mask   The representative mask play in Thailand is Khon. Besides, masks are occasionally worn in plays called Nora or Manora. Khon include more than a hundred actors and actresses, a large scale of Pipad orchestra, narrators and a chorus. The contents of Khon is based on <Ramayana>, an Indian epic. The the accompaniment of narrators' recitation, dancers play in silence. Main actors Prince Lama and King Tosakanma command their own armies. Thus characters are also divided into the monkeys' army under Prince Lama and the devils' army under King Tosakanma. For example, Lama's army consists of the commander in chief Prince Lama, general Purarak (Raksyumana), monkey generals Skrif, Ongot and Hanuman, officers Keyun and Mayun, etc. King Tosakanma also owns an army, which consists of the commander in chief King Tosakanma, generals Kumbakan and Indorajit, commanders of foreign forces Mayaraf, Sen-asit, general Mahotorun, brigadier general Karasun, etc. The total number of characters is over 100, and all of them wear colorful masks looking to be plated with gold. Fighting scenes performed by the characters on the stage are as magnificent and spectacular as temples in Thailand, rather than a showdown between good and evil. Only characters such as women, celestial maidens and witches did not wear masks before, but now male characters also do not wear masks. As a result, today masks are worn only by devils, monkeys and animals. Most masks in Thailand are green. Prince Lama, King Tosakanma and his son Indorajit, etc. are green. Green color symbolizes abundance, life, nature and health but because it also implies both good and evil, the two cannot be distinguished from each other by color. However, golden masks represent good nature or overflowing power and white masks such as Hanuman represent the sky and the wind, symbolizing the life force of Gi.