Su embroidery screen of the Han Dynasty screen

During the Han Dynasty, screens were painted on wooden boards and colored. After the invention of paper, it is more with paper paste, above the painting of a variety of immortals and animals and other images. After the Han book; Song Hong biography" said; "Hong when Yan see, sitting on the new screen, drawing the female, the emperor number of Gu see. Hong Zheng Rong said: 'I have not seen as good as the good color, the emperor will be removed.'" This screen is generally composed of more than one fan, each fan is connected with a knob, can be folded, relatively lightweight, with the set up, do not use is put away. People called curved screen. Four fans called four curved, six fans called six curved. There are also a number of collocation through the landscape screen.

The screen is also carved through the holes, Henan Xinyang Chu Tomb unearthed a wooden carved color lacquer seat screen. This type of screen is made of wood, the center of the openwork carving out a strong sense of three-dimensional pattern, is a purely decorative screen. Han Dynasty, this screen is still very popular. The three auxiliary decision recorded: "He spacious for the RuNan governor, ZhangDi south patrol through the county, there are carved screen, set up for the emperor."

There is also a smaller screen, called "sitting", mostly for a single fan. After the Han Book, there is a description of this screen: "Zheng Hong for the lieutenant, raised his brother Wulun for the Sikong. Class in the next, every positive and positive dynasty to see, Hong curved bow and humble, on the ask to know the reason, then listen to set mica screen separation between them." The Three Kingdoms; Wu Shu: "Jing Di, Ji Liang for the Shangshu Order, Zi stallion for the Central Office, every court meeting, the edict to the screen between their seats." These two records can help us further understand the use of screens at that time.

Su embroidery screen is divided into two categories of small screen, large screen, small screen is generally placed on the desktop, the size of the small, so it is also known as the "table screen", the large screen is specifically referred to on the ground, commonly known as the "ground screen", "ground screen". "Specifications relative to the size of the "table screen" is much larger, more for enterprises, restaurants, hotels, home decoration of the room. Su embroidery screen workmanship is quite exquisite, delicate and not lack of majestic atmosphere, style to "double-sided embroidery" mostly.