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Why is the "reeling flower-and-bird fan" the most recommended among the round fans?

Nanjing Museum's carved wooden handle flower-and-bird fan (blue) is worth recommending. An inch of silk and an inch of gold, that is "Hermes in silk."

Rich and white-headed carved wooden handle round fan (Qing Dynasty), silk flowers and birds, colored woven in blue land, a white-headed bird perched on peony branches.

Silk reeling technology is so complicated that even a few Japanese once claimed that silk reeling technology has been lost in China and only existed in Japan. "Although as far as we know, no one in Hangzhou has inherited this craft, the inheritance in Suzhou is still very good." The staff of Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum told the reporter.

Reeling silk is also called silk carving because it looks like silk carved with a knife. In the Song Dynasty, silk painting reached its peak. All the themes of Chinese painting can be found in silk reeling, which has become the royal fabric.