Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - Chinese traditional "ancient fan" appreciation

Chinese traditional "ancient fan" appreciation

Chinese traditional "ancient fan" appreciation can start from the following aspects:

1. Material: the ancient fan of various materials, including bamboo, wood, paper, silk, fan, ivory, betel nut and so on. Each material fan has its own unique texture and use of characteristics, such as bamboo fan thin texture, breathable, while the ivory fan looks gorgeous and elegant.

2. modeling: the shape of the ancient fan is also a variety of shapes, round, oval, square, hexagonal, octagonal and so on. Different shapes with different materials, so that the ancient fan in the visual more beautiful.

3. Craftsmanship: the production process of the ancient fan is very complex, and it needs to go through many processes, such as bamboo chipping, polishing, carving, painting and so on. Among them, each process requires the craftsman's exquisite skills and rich experience, which makes the ancient fan become a kind of artwork.

4. Calligraphy and painting: Many ancient fans have exquisite calligraphy and painting works on the fan surface, which can be landscape paintings, flower and bird paintings, figure paintings, etc., or poems, aphorisms, aphorisms, etc., which have high artistic value.

5. Collection value: Because of the complexity of the production process of the ancient fan and the difficulty of preservation, the collection value of the ancient fan is also very high. The works of some famous artists, such as Wen Zhengming, Tang Yin, Qianlong, etc., have become even more sought-after treasures by collectors.

In short, the ancient fan is a kind of traditional crafts with high artistic value and historical value, appreciation needs to be considered from a number of aspects.