How to make a round fan for Mid-Autumn Festival

How to make a round fan for the Mid-Autumn Festival is as follows:

Materials to prepare: paper, glue, wooden sticks.

1, prepare a larger rectangular paper.

2, from the left to about one centimeter, folded repeatedly, as shown in the figure.

3, and then pinch the center.

4, followed by glue, as shown in the picture.

5. Glue the two sides together, as shown in the picture.

6, the same way, in making one, and then glued in one piece.

7, and finally two sticks glued to the bottom can be completed.

The main materials, cultural origin and function of the fan:

Main materials:

Bamboo, wood, paper, ivory, tortoiseshell, jadeite, plumes of birds, other palm leaves, betel leaves, straw, cattail, etc. can be braided into a variety of different kinds of daily crafts or made into a fan, beautifully modeled, exquisite construction, by the craftsmen and craftsmen carefully skeletonized, carving, ironing, drilling or celebrities waving poems and calligraphy Painting, so that the fan art is worth a hundred times.

Cultural origins:

Traditional Chinese fan culture originated in ancient times, in the scorching summer, hand-hunted plant leaves or bird feathers, simple processing, used to block the sun produces wind, so the fan has a barricade of the sun, which is the original source of the fan. "to wood said case, to reed said fan", the earliest fan is made of reeds as a symbol of power.

Fan function:

Fan initial function is not used to cool, but the ruling class in order to show their status and privileges of the ceremonial fan. Because the fan is mostly seen in the palace, so the fan is also called "palace fan". After the Sui and Tang dynasties, feather fan and playboy fan appeared in large quantities, and the literati and writers of this period love to play with the fan, as it is the "sleeve elegant thing".

Ancient literati without a fan in their hands, just like the petty capitalist does not have a pet dog, seems a bit tasteless. To the Qing Dynasty, not only the literati, even into the career of officials, accountants, and even at the bottom of the social stratum of all kinds of people also like to shake the fan "pose".