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China's oldest one of the three best Hangzhou Wang Xingji fan

1, black paper fan

Black paper fan is Hangzhou Wang Xingji's most famous traditional brand-name products, "a fan half a fan," said. The fan bone is made of moso bamboo, which is called "full moso", and the one made of palm bamboo is called "full palm". The bamboo is produced in Anji and Lin'an, Zhejiang Province, while the palm bamboo comes from Guangzhou and Guizhou. The surface of the fan is made of pure mulberry paper from Fuyang and Rui'an, Zhejiang Province, and is coated with several layers of Zhuji alpine persimmon lacquer. The production of black paper fan has to go through 86 procedures, including bone making, gluing, folding, coloring, shaping, sanding and finishing. The decoration of the fan surface is extremely elaborate, and its artistic processing includes clay gold, clay silver, cutting and pasting, painting, calligraphy and other forms.

2, white paper fan

White paper fan, also known as white paper fan, is another traditional product of Hangzhou Wang Xingji. The fan bone is made of winter bamboo produced in Ji'an and Lin'an, Zhejiang Province. The fan bone of bamboo green is called "head green", and the fan bone of bamboo yellow is called "two quot; and the processing technology and precision are different. And different processing technology and precision, also divided into the head of jade, two jade, head oil, two oil, lacquer bone, fine bone, water grinding bone, etc., in addition can also be used sandalwood, ebony, Xiangfei bamboo and other precious materials made of high-grade fan bone, highly collectible. Raw materials for fan can be roughly divided into two categories: one type of handmade mulberry paper from Fuyang, Zhejiang Province or Xuan paper from Anhui Province, which is suitable for painting and writing after alum surface treatment; the other type of single-sided offset paper is used as raw materials.

3, sandalwood fan

The sandalwood fan is also one of the traditional products of Hangzhou Wangxingji. It is produced in India and Southeast Asia around the valuable wood ----- sandalwood as the raw material known as the folding fan. Sandalwood wood is delicate, hard and fragrant, and the production process goes through many procedures such as sawing, assembling, laminating and painting. Drawing, stamping and carving become the main means of decoration. A sandalwood fan preserved ten or eight years later, shaking the fan, still full of fragrance.

4, silk bamboo fan

Silk bamboo fan, also known as the female silk fan, is a new fan in the Hangzhou fan species. Fan bone to bamboo as raw material, fan surface using Hangzhou specialty silk, can also be used in cotton, paper and so on. The surface of the fan needs to be processed by alum silk, folding surface, or painting, or spraying flowers, or screen printing.

5, incense wood fan

Incense wood fan is the early 70's development to make up for the lack of sandalwood fan raw materials of a new fan species. The use of wood, cypress, poplar and other hard wood instead of sandalwood, attacked the production of sandalwood fan technology, sprayed with synthetic sandalwood essence into a few comparable to the sandalwood fan.

6, Palace fan

Palace fan, also known as dandy fan, acacia fan, its history is longer than the folding fan. Production materials, in addition to the border and fan handle, mainly the production of silk fan surface. Fan handle using hardwood or moso bamboo material, sophisticated also equipped with ivory fall angle, under the tassel. Modeling has a round, curved, rectangular several kinds of ancient colors, elegant and clear.

7, feather fan

Feather fan history than the Palace fan is also long. Raw materials for making feather fans are mainly bird feathers. Hanging fan in the feather fan category, mainly goose feather fan, velvet fan and peacock feather fan. It is a complex production, high process requirements, only the selection of feathers need to be the same color, similar length, feathers Chuan row left and right symmetry.