Can you tell me the difference between a Chinese folding fan and a Japanese folding fan?

The Japanese are also keen on moving things around in order to polymerize external things to themselves. There are many Chinese poets who specialize in writing poems about the bright moon, which is used to send love and show loneliness, but the poets don't invite the moon to themselves, they leave the mortal world and go to the moon themselves. But in Japanese haiku, there are numerous waka in which the poet invites the moon to himself.

Japan is known as the Yamato nation, and things with Japanese characteristics are often labeled with the word "waka," such as Japanese poetry called "waka," Japanese-style clothes called "kimono," and Japanese-flavored grilled food called "kimono. For example, Japanese poetry is called "waka", Japanese-style clothes are called "kimono", and Japanese-flavored grilled chicken is called "wafu yakitori". However, many of the things with the word "Wo" in them are not really Japanese products. For example, the world-famous "Kimono" actually originated from the clothing of the Tang Dynasty in China; "Wagashi" includes the curry rice favored by the Indians; and "Wagashi" is the name given to a variety of Japanese foods. For example, the world-famous "kimono" actually originated from Chinese clothing of the Tang Dynasty, and "wagashi" includes the curry rice favored by Indians. The Japanese fan, which is also an important highlight of Japanese national culture, is widely recognized by the Japanese as a more authentic Japanese product.

The Japanese Japanese fan is what the Chinese call a folding fan. There are two theories about the origin of the fan, one in Egypt and the other in China. Early Chinese fans were generally group fans made of feathers and silk, used mainly by the aristocracy with the significance of displaying status, without regard to the function of folding the fan. Some supporters of the fan as a Japanese original believe that early Japanese fans were passed down from China, and that the folding style appeared in the Heian period, approximately because of Japan's small space and adeptness at fine craftsmanship. From the examination of historical facts, the Japanese folding fan was initially invented as a gift from the court, as a practical tool for cooling popular in the lower and middle classes is after the Edo period.

The invention of the Japanese folding fan also has a lot to do with religion, "hay fan", "hay fan" and "mosquito fan" is derived from the Japanese Ise Jingu Shrine to hold a rice-planting ceremony in the fan. The fans used in the rice planting ceremony at the Ise Shrine in Japan. Early Japanese fans can be divided into hinoki fans and paper fans, and these two kinds of folding fans are also a major feature of today's Kyoto.

"Wafan" is not only a simple cooling tool, but also an important symbol of Japanese culture. Wafan is part of the formal kimono, as are obi, pouch, and clogs, as well as an important part of the tea ceremony. In the tea ceremony, if the other party puts a folding fan in front of you horizontally, it represents a screen, reminding you that the tea is not ready yet, so don't reach across the screen to get it. In religion, the folding fan as a gift to show respect for each other.

The invention of the folding fan from the Chinese doughnut fan to the Japanese folding fan can actually be seen out of the pursuit of an easy pragmatism, but also shows a way of recognizing things. Folding fan can close and open, this open and close the fan on the performance of the characteristics of aggregation, the world and fate in this open and close freely, in the grasp, which gives the folding fan mysterious meaning. Almost all religions in the world seek to recognize surrealism by turning it into a tangible thing, so the Ishu fan in the tea ceremony, the Hanafuda fan in funerals, and the branch fan used by ancient monks have strong symbolic meanings.

The Japanese folding fan has the symbolic meaning of aggregating and clutching the world and destiny in one's hands. From the fact that the Japanese developed the group fan into the folding fan with the meaning of aggregation, it can be seen that the Japanese have rich imagination and strong pragmatism. Rather than orienting themselves to the outside world or to superhuman beings, their imagination focused on aggregating things from the outside world into their own. In the literature of other countries, the wind generally represents departure, but in Japan, the wind represents more of a convergence of meanings that are close to the self and contain the self. According to statistics, there are more than 40 Japanese songs that express the idea of the convergence of winds in the New Kujinji.

From the Japanese folding fan, we can see that the Japanese people are good at moving things around, and like to grasp the way to recognize things. The Japanese people's perception of things that determine the human carrier to create a culture, is a "polymerization culture". Just like the onigiri in the hands of Japanese people, they can only feel at ease when things are aggregated in their own hands. Japanese people like to eat with a bowl, not only to bow to the Buddha, but also advocate the use of hands to touch, is the embodiment of this culture, and even the more intimate wishes, prayers and other psychological to be written by hand to a piece of Eema plaque. Japanese people have to grasp everything with their hands, including feelings, so there are a number of words to express the meaning of the hands, such as the expression of the meaning of feeling with the hands of the "hand answer", the expression of the meaning of the difficult to deal with the "hand strong", the expression of the meaning of the harshness of the "hand pain". "hand pain" and so on. The fan is folded so that it can be held in the hand, which is both convenient and beautiful. Japanese people not only think with the mind, but also like to use their hands to "see" the problem, trying to polymerize the big world in a small hand, those who can not be polymerized in the hands of the things, is not able to deal with the things, relatively speaking, has lost the significance of the practical.

In addition to cooling, rewarding, and expressing the Japanese like "everything in hand" and other functions, the folding fan is also a mobile artwork. Fans have existed as works of art long before they became a daily necessity. Since folding fans were beautiful, compact, and easy to carry, it became popular to draw designs, figures, and poems and aphorisms on them. Designs on fans are different from paintings on paper and frescoes. Frescoes and fan paintings are the same in that they are not easy to carry around, and the same words and paintings have lost their charm for displaying to the outside world. Folding fan, however, can move the beautiful picture from the wall to their own hands, carry around, enjoy at any time. That is why folding fans became fashionable in the height of summer. Fans were also the centerpiece of the motifs on the straight and hunting garments of Japanese men in the Kamakura period.

The fan, as a symbol of Japanese culture, contributed to painting, song and dance, and theater. The combination of the fan and the Japanese Noh music song, "yamabushi," is known as yamabushi, and the combination of the fan with dance is known as fan odori, which directly contributes to the development of the art of Noh music. In Kabuki, the opening and closing of the fan is used to express the mood of the character in the play. For example, if you are drinking, you can use the fan to express drinking and drunkenness without the use of a wine glass.

In the eyes of the Japanese, a small fan will be all the beauty of the world aggregated together, this half-moon shape of an opening and closing of the Japanese aesthetic is also embodied to the fullest. The shape of Mount Fuji, which is considered the symbol of Japan, also looks like an upside-down fan, and a Japanese poet once praised it with the poem "Jade fan hanging upside down in the sky of the East China Sea".

The fan not only reflects the ideology and aesthetics of the Japanese people, but also represents the original form of practical goods. As early as the end of the Heian period, fans were mass-produced in Kyoto. It was also the fan merchants who brought Japanese goods to the height of commercialism. Japanese fan merchants brought the folding fan's to China, where they were quickly accepted by the Chinese and spread them to Europe.

Japanese scholars believe that the etymology of the word "fan" in English is the pronunciation of the Japanese fan. In fact, there were fans in Europe long before the folding fan was introduced. The English word "fan" comes from the Latin word "fan," which originally meant a dustpan, a tool for separating grain from dust and other debris. After the invention of the Japanese folding fan, it quickly became a world product popular with people from all over the world because it was more portable than the doughnut fan, making people marvel at the shrewdness of the minds of the Japanese who made this little fan.

In fact, the transition from the fan to the folding fan is not only a reflection of pragmatism, but also a reflection of the Japanese people's love of aggregation, a typical representative of the culture of aggregation. The Japanese sense of aggregation has created a large number of things with Japanese characteristics, led by the fan. Japanese people think of aggregating anything they see, and even the partitions between rooms are folded, creating the world's most space-saving sliding doors. Japanese lanterns are also foldable and retractable, and when not in use, no matter how big they are, they can be folded up like a fan.

The Japanese like to think with a sense of aggregation, and no matter how much the times have changed, this preference still exists and has made an outstanding contribution to the occupation of the market by Japanese goods. In addition to folding fans, Slade-style umbrellas, which were imported to Japan from Germany during the Taisho period, became the world's first folding umbrellas in 1950 after being folded by the Japanese. After that, Japan mass-produced it, exported it to other countries around the world, and captured the world market. in the 1980s, the Japanese further compressed it into a new type of three-section folding fan, the world's shortest and most portable, measuring only 18 centimeters. The umbrella, like the fan, eventually turned into a pocket.

After the war, the Japanese people will be polymerization of consciousness applied to the development of new, strange, special, the field of small commodities, transistors as the representative of Japan's "small" commodities to open up the world market. The Japanese had already developed the technology of miniaturization by the time they were able to fold the fan that came from China in the Heian period. In the pragmatic West, the Japanese fan also became a popular item. Japan's "small" goods to the world business community has brought a Japanese-style goods frenzy, Japan's home appliances, digital products with its exquisite, small, portable and other advantages of occupying half of the similar products.