Craft Writing of Handmade Fans

The process of making handmade fans is written as follows:

The science and technology festival is coming, and the school will hold a fan contest. As soon as I got home, I took out scissors, glue and cardboard of various colors. I first cut a big yellow circle and a pink lace with scissors, and I glued them together with glue. Then, I cut a dozen small triangles and stuck them around the big circle.

Then, I cut a small mushroom house, glued it in the middle of the circle and made a small door and window for the house. Mom said something seemed to be missing. I thought about it and cut a blue cloud and some colorful butterflies and birds.

I glued them to the house, and sure enough, they looked better this way. Finally, I made a handle for the fan. In this way, a fan was born, and I named it "Warm Sun House".

The fan is a wind-inducing device, which is necessary in summer. China traditional fan culture has a profound cultural background and is an integral part of Chinese national culture. In the traditional society of China, fans are closely related to people's daily life. The earliest fans in history are the royal etiquette fans used in the court of the fourth dynasty in ancient Egypt more than 4,500 years ago, and the etiquette fans with ostrich hair and ivory poles unearthed from the KV62 royal tomb in the Valley of the Kings of Egypt 3,300 years ago.

The types of fans are feather fan, cattail fan, pheasant fan, round fan, folding fan, silk bow fan, mud fan, black paper fan, sandalwood fan and so on. The manufacturing techniques of fans listed in the national intangible cultural heritage list include sandalwood fan in Suzhou, Jiangsu, Wangxingji fan in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, folding fan in Rongchang, Chongqing, sunflower fan in Gong Fan, Zigong, Sichuan, and feather fan in Huzhou, Zhejiang. There are juniper fans and bat fans in Japan.

Spread of fans

Historically, China fans have spread to Japan, Europe, America and other countries, which have had a certain impact on fan making and court etiquette in these countries, and are called European fans. As early as the Tang Dynasty, China's silk fans were introduced to Japan and became popular in Japanese courts.

During the Tianlu period from 970 to 972 AD, the silk fans in the court were decorated with rosewood inlaid with mother-of-pearl as the handle and China Luohong as the fan, with luxurious style. Emperor Rong Yuan (970 ~ 984) also gave fans as gifts to heroes. In the early Qing Dynasty, China folding fans were exported to Japan in large quantities. /kloc-at the beginning of the 6th century, folding fans from China were introduced to Europe.