What are the famous fans in China?

1, folding fan

Folding fan is also known as "spread fan", "paper fan", "Apia fan", "pinch fan ", "folding fan", "folding fan", "poly head fan", "poly bone fan ", "sculling fan", "whirlwind fan". It is a kind of fan that can be folded by using bamboo wood or ivory as the fan bone, and tough paper or damask silk as the fan surface; when used, it must be spread out into a semicircular shape, and gather the head and scatter the tail.

The folding fan has long since departed from its original purpose of fanning and has become something entirely emotional or cultural.

In the 21st century, the folding fan has become the Chinese folding fan. China is the world's largest producer and exporter, selling them to many countries, and they are very popular.

2, group fan

Group fan is also known as palace fan, dandy fan. Chinese traditional crafts and works of art. It is a kind of round fan with a handle. The group fan originated in China. The fan first appeared in the Shang Dynasty, made of colorful pheasant feathers, called the "barrier fan".

Before the Song Dynasty, the term "fan" was used to refer to a group fan. Chinese fans are usually painted with a picture of a lady on the side of the fan. The fan is a Chinese invention, also known as the dandy fan, which was later introduced to Japan. The fan was introduced to Japan during the Nara period by the Tang Dynasty. In Japan, the fan was first used by the court nobles. It was not until the end of the Heian period that the use of the fan was allowed to the general public.

3, feather fan

Feather fan has been three thousand years of history, the traditional Chinese crafts. At home and abroad enjoys a good reputation Huzhou feather fan is China's long history, unique style of one of the national traditional products.

Ancient emperors used pheasant feathers to make long-handled feather fans as a traveling ceremonial weapon to show the noble authority of the king, and then inherited by successive dynasties, and up to the Qing Dynasty. In the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang's hands of goose feather fan, was later known as a symbol of wisdom and talent. Feather fan is light, clever thing, the fan out of the breeze, even the old and weak, pregnant women, postpartum mothers and children are very suitable for the use of feather fan.

4, damask fan

Damask fan is one of China's traditional handicrafts, belongs to a kind of Palace fan, produced in Zhejiang Province. Originally, it was a pleasure for noble women. A fan made of fine clean yarn, Luo, damask and so on. Generally more round, so it is also known as "group fan". There are also waist round, oval and "Zhongli style" and so on. To Suzhou production of the most sophisticated. Beautiful modeling, picture fine.

5, ivory fan

Ivory fan is a characteristic of traditional art, belongs to the tribute, is a fine Chinese fan. Ivory is fine and tough, easy to carve, and can be dyed, is a valuable fan material. The whole fan highlights the texture of delicate and moist ivory silk, which is solemn, elegant and ancient.

The Palace Museum in Beijing has a carved fan made of ivory gabion silk, which was a gift from Guangdong officials to the court during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. The fan is in the shape of a banana leaf, 57.3cm longitudinally and 34.1cm horizontally, and its surface is made of very thin ivory wire, which is white, fine and less than 1mm wide, and is uniformly fine and dense.

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