![Liu Shihu, a Sichuan opera performer, demonstrates his face-changing skills with a mask featuring the Chinese national flag in Suining, Sichuan July 7, 2008. Face-changing, or 'bianlian' in Chinese is a stunt where performers change masks in the blink of an eye in Sichuan opera. [Asianewsphoto]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20080710/000802c98ccc09dfc6e719.jpg "Liu Shihu, a Sichuan opera performer, demonstrates his face-changing skills with a mask featuring the Chinese national flag in Suining, Sichuan July 7, 2008. Face-changing, or 'bianlian' in Chinese is a stunt where performers change masks in the blink of an eye in Sichuan opera. [Asianewsphoto]")
Liu Shihu, a Sichuan opera performer, demonstrates his face-changing skills with a mask featuring the Chinese national flag in Suining, Sichuan July 7, 2008. Face-changing, or "bianlian" in Chinese is a stunt where performers change masks in the blink of an eye in Sichuan opera. [Asianewsphoto]