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The history and meaning of the fan

Tuan fan symbolizes the meaning of reunion and beauty. In the inheritance of the Chinese nation, fan culture is an important branch of artifact culture, and the fan is an important part of fan culture. The group fan, also known as the palace fan, dandy fan, is a traditional Chinese Han crafts and works of art, is a round fan with a handle, which represents the reunion and friendly, auspicious and lucky.

History and Meaning of the Fan

Anciently, there were various shapes of fans, including round fans, petal-shaped fans, rectangular fans, banana-style fans, tung-leaf palace fans, and so on.

The fan was also called the fan of happiness, the earliest symbolizes the blessing of the newly married man and woman, and later slowly also extended to the wishes of each family, the whole family happy.

The fan originated in China, and has a history of more than 3,000 years in China. The fan first appeared in the Shang Dynasty, and was made of colorful pheasant feathers, which was called the "barrier fan".