Fan originated in China. Our ancestors hunted the leaves of plants or bird feathers in the hot summer, and processed them simply to block the sun and lead the wind. Therefore, fan is called "block the sun". There are five Ming fans in the age of the Yellow Emperor. If archaeology is confirmed, the history of the fans is more than 5000 years.
The earliest fan is made of colorful pheasant hair, which is called "barrier fan", so there is a word "feather" in the word "fan". At that time, the fan was not used for cooling, but for shading, wind and sand when the emperor went out for inspection.
After the Western Han Dynasty, fans began to be used for cooling. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, most of the feather fans were changed into silk, silk, damask and other fabrics for embellishment and embroidery.
Round fan and folding fan
There are many kinds of life fans, with all kinds of designs and colors. They are beautiful and cheap, such as cattail fan, sunflower leaf fan and bamboo weaving fan. They are suitable for women's Silk Group fan, carved feather fan for senior scholars and goose feather fan for court fan dance. And portable folding fans.
Folding fans have made great progress in hundreds of years since they were imported. It has nine pieces of wood to twenty pieces of wood, ranging in length from small to two feet. There are paper and silk on the fan surface, clay and gold sprinkled on the fan. The fan stock is made of wood, bamboo and ivory, all of which are naturally beautiful.
Fan calligraphy
The fan of folding fan is suitable for both writing and painting. Although the heaven and earth are only a ruler, painters of all ages are involved in it. Because of one of the exquisite folding fans, it can be called a flowing exhibition of Arts and crafts, which makes people love it. Therefore, the fan is not only a tool to blow the summer heat, but also an artistic enjoyment besides the function of life. "The shadow moves for half a month, and the fragrance gives birth to a ray of wind." one fan is on the cool breeze Buddha's face, which has a special interest.
Fan dance jasmine Blossom
In the field of literature and art, emperors and generals, talented people and beauties, loyal traitors to the rich and the poor can't do without fans. Zhugeliang '.