How to distinguish the materials of folding fan bones? What materials can folding fan bones be made of?

1, rosewood fan: rosewood fan belongs to the nobility in ordinary mahogany. With the continuous reduction of raw materials, its value is getting higher and higher, especially the high-quality rosewood fans have become very rare.

2. Ebony fan: Ebony is the most commonly used material in wood fan bones, which has been used for fan bone making since the Ming Dynasty, commonly known as "ebony". Ebony bones are well trained and most of them are vegetarian. However, most of the ebony bones in the Qing Dynasty had jobs. Ebony bone is often used with other materials, such as ebony big bone and Yuzhu small bone. Ebony is rarely used for Fan Kun spareribs, but it is mostly used for straight top 16 male fans.

3. Chicken-winged wood fan: Chicken-winged wood of mahogany fan is named for its staggered depth and natural texture like chicken wings. Often used as 16 to 20 file painting fans. Mostly bamboo bones. Chicken wing wood is poor in flexibility and easy to break, so special attention should be paid to it when it is collected and preserved.

4, sandalwood fan: sandalwood of mahogany fan, sandalwood used to make fan bones refers to white sandalwood. Sandalwood is soft and has a strong and lasting unique fragrance, which is not only refreshing, but also insect-proof and moth-proof. Sandalwood can be used not only in Fan Kun, but also in 16th grade male fans, whether industrial or vegetarian, and sometimes it is used with other materials.

5, rosewood fan: rosewood fan, also known as Dalbergia odorifera. This kind of wood is hard, thick and fine grained. In recent years, it is often sold as a hand bead, which is famous for its texture and medicinal value. It is often heard that rosewood has the function of promoting qi circulation and relieving pain. In ancient times, people often used spices to spread fans, which was called "fragrant wind". Later, fans made of rosewood and agarwood also had this function.

6. serpentine fan: the serpentine of mahogany fan is a kind of wood fan material. The sapwood of serpentine is obviously different. The sapwood is wide, yellow and white, and the heartwood is dark reddish brown, forming extremely slow and irregular black spots and patterns. The patterns are changeable, similar to snake patterns, hieroglyphics and English letters. Therefore, it has the reputation of serpentine wood, alphabet wood and Oracle Bone Inscriptions wood, which is very decorative.

7. Brown bamboo fan: Actually, brown bamboo is different from the above. From the biological point of view, brown bamboo belongs to Palmae, not Gramineae, and its appearance is obviously different from other bamboos. It is famous for its delicate texture. Brown bamboo bones are mostly plain bones, elegant and smooth, and everyone loves them. Since it has its own brown bamboo bones, it is called elegant. Brown bamboo is often used for fan bones above eighteen gears. Almost all the black paper fans in the 1930s and 1940s were made of brown bamboo.

8. Luohan bamboo fan: Luohan bamboo, also known as Buddha belly bamboo. The difference between arhat bamboo and ordinary bamboo is that the bamboo knot is thin, the internodes are short and swollen, like the belly of Maitreya Buddha and like a folded arhat, hence the name. It is often judged by the moisture and size of bamboo and the formation of bamboo joints. Arhat bamboo is also a famous bamboo bone, because of its peculiar shape, unique natural taste and rare materials.

9. Bamboo fans: The most famous ones are ChristianRandPhillips bamboo fans, Chengyan bamboo fans, Lumei bamboo fans, especially ChristianRandPhillips bamboo fans, all of which are top-class bamboo fans. Hunan and Fujian are producing areas, and the quality is often judged by the color and cleanliness of bamboo, the shape, color, depth, degree of life and death, and the moisture and size of bamboo. There are few excellent products.

10, Polygonatum odoratum and You Zhu fans: The two common ones are Polygonatum odoratum and You Zhu, but they are actually one kind, both made of bamboo. The preparation of Polygonatum odoratum is called "Luhuang", and 6-8-year-old bamboo is preferred. After the solar term "White Dew", chop it into bamboo, boil it in water, soak it outdoors in dew and sunshine to dry it, and repeat it for a week, so that the surface of bamboo is "like jade", that is, it is moist and jade-like and becomes Polygonatum odoratum.