Wangxingji Paper Fan Manufacturing Craftsmanship

Wangxingji fan production process and modeling art, bringing together generations of fan artists and traditional techniques, from the initial black paper fan, to now have 15 categories of more than 400 varieties of more than 3,000 colors of the "Kingdom of the fan", "Wangxingji". "Generations of artists have inherited the civilization, striving for excellence and advancing with the times, so that the traditional fan craft has been carried forward and flourished. Now the fan varieties, technology development is summarized as follows:

Black paper fan:

Black paper fan is the most prestigious Wang Xingji fan in the traditional brand-name products, it is due to the selection of materials, fine production, known as the fan in the fine arts, known as the "Su white Hangzhou black" reputation. When the "Wang Xingji" founder Wang Xingzhai, that is, for the production of high-grade black paper fan frosted master, his wife Chen Ying is good at black paper fan decals, sprinkled gold, the couple produced black paper fan many times as a specialty of Hangzhou tribute to the imperial court, so the black paper fan and the "Tribute Fan," the name of the fan.

Black paper fan using Guangxi, Guilin area of palm bamboo for fan bone material, fan surface using Zhejiang Tianmu Mountain pure mulberry paper coated with several layers of Zhuji production of high mountain persimmon paint. Black paper fan handmade, after making bone paste surface, folding surface, color, grinding, shaping, such as eighty-six unique process, in order to break the "three passes": rain does not penetrate, exposure to the sun does not warped, the paper is not broken, the color does not fade, known as "a fan half an umbrella".

Black paper fan fan decoration is also extremely elaborate, its artistic processing of clay gold, clay silver, cut and paste, painting, calligraphy and other forms. In recent years, a new generation of artists and bold innovation, the use of modern concepts to explore the essence of the traditional fan craft, the use of a variety of techniques into a fan, especially the innovation of painting and calligraphy and painting on the use of new materials and new techniques, so that the black paper fan, the traditional fan of the old more and more show vitality.

White paper fan:

White paper fan, also known as white paper folding fan, is an important variety of folding fan produced by "Wang Xingji". White paper fan fan bone is generally based on bamboo bone, the use of more than 2 years of winter bamboo, moth-proof, mold-proof treatment to achieve durability. The fan bone has the name of "head green" and "two green" because of the different materials used, and there are different processing techniques and precision, divided into "head jade", "two jade", "head jade", "head jade" and "head jade". "head jade", "two jade", "head oil", "two oil", "lacquer bone", "water-ground bone" There are several kinds of fan bones. The finished fan bone is dark brown or jade color, bright and discernible. The big side is usually carved with bamboo patterns, and the elaborate carvings have birds and flowers, landscapes, calligraphy, inlaid with silver wire and so on. High-grade white paper fan fan bone using valuable mahogany, chicken fin wood, sandalwood, ivory and other materials, processing is more delicate, stronger craftsmanship.

In recent years, "Wang Xingji" in the white paper fan fan bone production process, technology development and innovation, using carving, inlay, hollowing, modeling and other techniques, craftsmanship, ingenuity. At the same time, in a fan bone using faceted, inlaid ivory, inlaid inlays, inlaid sandalwood, inlaid paste and lacquer carving and other methods of decorative arts, craftsmanship is very delicate, so that the fan bone is extremely delicate and beautiful, and to achieve a very high artistic effect. In addition also in the white paper fan fan bone styling on the article, focusing on the styling of the fan head, the development of a fancy-shaped fan head, bottle mouth fan head, round head fan head, pointed fan head, square head fan head and so on, greatly enriching the fan bone culture and fan varieties.

High-grade white paper fan fan surface generally have alum surface, silk surface. Alum surface using good rice paper, by making fan surface master carefully table system, made of fan surface has become a calligraphy and painting enthusiasts waving ink excellent carrier. The alum surface is sprinkled with thick or thin real gold foil, which retains the traditional feature of Hangzhou fans using gold paper as the fan surface, and adds splendor to the fan surface. The fine texture of the fan surface made of real silk provides another good choice for fans of brush painting.

High-grade white paper fan fan painting and calligraphy art is even more colorful. Throughout history, many painters in the fan left a masterpiece. After the founding of the country, the famous painters and calligraphers Qi Baishi, Pan Tianshou, Huang Binhong, Zhu Qizi support, Sha Menghai, Wu Fuzhi, Zhu Le three, Huang Han, Cheng Shifa, Tang Yun, Zhang Zongxiang, Mr., have all been for the Wang Xingji fan factory produced by the white paper fan inscription painting. "Wangxingji" has many calligraphers and painters who are skillful and create thousands of fans every year, and there are a lot of masterpieces in the world.

Sandalwood fan:

Sandalwood fan is made of sandalwood as the raw material for the folding fan; wood is mainly produced in India and Southeast Asia. Sandalwood used to make fans, the age of the tree needs more than a few decades, visible sandalwood precious and rare. Made of fan, "fan in the incense" reputation, a sandalwood fan preserved for decades later, still fragrant and elegant.

The production of sandalwood fan, "Wang Xingji" heir Prince Qing studied the Japanese and French fan strengths, in 1920, the development of trial production success, and the West Lake in Hangzhou with the scenery of "Xiling", "Jade Belt The name of the fan was "Xiling", "Jade Ribbon" and "Twin Peaks" in the West Lake scenery of Hangzhou, and the fan was put on the market, which was so popular that it was formally listed as an independent fan species, which was the icing on the cake for the Wang Xingji fan.

Sandalwood fan for high-grade handicrafts, the main decorative techniques for pulling, stamping, carving, painting and so on. The unique processing technology makes the sandalwood fan more delicate and elegant. "Flower pulling" is the use of a simple wire saw in a thin piece of fan, hand-pulled tens of thousands of different sizes and shapes of the eyelets, in the entire fan composed of a thousand variations, such as the virtual reality of a variety of exquisite patterns. "Hot flower" is also called branding, is the use of a fire pen on the fan surface ironed out varying shades of brown scorch marks of the pattern, the craftsmen are often able to make clever use of the natural wood grain of sandalwood, through the "grain" sketched out the strange peaks and mountains, the clouds rely on the fog around, the gods into reality. Carving is mainly in the fan bone handle carved out figures, landscapes, flowers and birds and other patterns. After the carving process, it increases the artistic appreciation value of the sandalwood fan. Painting makes the fan surface clear, orderly, rich and colorful.

After the founding of New China, the state advocates more high-grade brand-name products, so that the craftsmanship, decorative "Wang Xingji" sandalwood fan has a great development, pulling the flower carving skills improved significantly, the representative works of the "Journey to the West Wing", "Lanting Tablet" and so on. Hot flowers can also show characters, flowers and birds, fish and insects and all kinds of landscape subjects, but also naturally express the strange peaks and mountains, smoke, water and other special effects, the 1960s representative works are "Daiyu funeral flowers" and so on. After the development of "inlay" means of decoration, with cow horn, ivory as raw materials. After hand-pulling, grinding, carving, engraving and other crafts, made of a variety of flowers, birds and landscape patterns, and then use the aesthetic principles of exaggeration, contrast, inlaid in the fan. The inlaid sandalwood fan is exquisite.

In recent years, "Wang Xing Ji" has created a new sandalwood fan combining pulling and hot-stamping, with pulling patterns as the background, and then hot-stamping with gorgeous pictures. After the combination of pulling and ironing, the "virtual" lines of pulling the flower carving lines to accentuate the "real" picture of ironing, one virtual and one real, complement each other, set each other off, gorgeous. 2000 to 2005, "Wang Xingji From 2000 to 2005, "Wang Xingji" new generation of artists in sandalwood fan elaborate creations, won many awards. Sandalwood fan "West Lake full picture" the first China Arts and Crafts Masters Works and Arts and Crafts Excellence Fair Silver Award and Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Excellence Gold Award; sandalwood palace fan "West Lake Pearl" the first Zhejiang Folk Crafts Outstanding Work Gold Award; hot pull sandalwood "White Snake" Hangzhou Excellent Tourism Commodity Gold Award.

Silk and bamboo fan:

Silk and bamboo fan, also known as women's silk fan, is a new fan created in the 1930s for the Hangzhou Du Jinsheng Silk Weaving Factory, Wang Xingji Fan Factory.

Silk bamboo fan fan bone to bamboo as raw material, the fan surface using Hangzhou specialty silk, can be divided into two categories: fan bone dyed black, with black silk for the fan surface called "Wuzhu fan", fan bone dyed in other colors, with the coordination of the color of the silk for the fan surface is called "color bamboo fan "The former is noble and dignified, the latter noble and dignified, and the latter dignified and dignified. The former is noble and dignified, the latter is beautiful and lively, each of which has its own beauty and can be chosen by women of all ages. Silk bamboo fan fan by alum silk, folding surface treatment, with silver foil for the strip, or painting, or spray flowers, or screen printing, high-grade silk bamboo fan is decorated with gold and silver foil fan, magnificent and very grand. 1983 after the Wang Xingji fan factory used vacuum polyester film as fan material instead of silk, silk bamboo fan to enhance the waterproof, moth-proof performance, more durable.

After 1990, the silk and bamboo fan had a wide variety of colors and became the main varieties for domestic and foreign sales of Wang Xing Ji Fan Factory. 2000, "Wang Xing Ji" developed the silk and bamboo fan with painting, which reduced the proportion of the fan surface, emphasized the strength of the fan bone and changed the decorative habit of painting on the surface of the fan and innovatively depicted the pattern on the fan bone. The color of the pattern matches the color of the fan surface, giving people a feeling of nobility and elegance. Painting silk fan wonderful with fashion, both elegant and fashionable, very popular with young women's favorite.

Palace fan:

Palace fan, also known as dandy fan, Heping fan, its history is longer than the folding fan. Palace fan production materials are mainly silk fan surface, fine workmanship, fan shape is not fixed, antique, very popular with the collection. High-grade Palace fan fan painted with ladies and girls, flowers, birds, fish and insects, or green mountains and green water, inscriptions and poems.

"Wang Xingji" production of Palace fan has a history of more than 50 years. Representative works include "Hundred Birds Praying to the Phoenix", "The Wizard of the South Pole" and "Hundred Cranes" designed and created by Mao Weidong, the former director of the Wangxingji Fan Factory and an arts and crafts artist.

Panel Fan:

Panel fan was introduced in 1978, is a branch from the white paper fan, for many years has been "Wangxingji" production of a fan, quite popular in the market. The general specification of the screen fan is 50 to 112 centimeters, and the edge of the fan is made of moso bamboo or hardwood, with two kinds of single side and double side. High-grade screen fan its big side carved with a variety of patterns, fan surface has a full paper surface, sprinkled with gold surface, sprinkled with silver surface, full silk surface and so on several kinds of paintings, all of which are hand-painted. 1983, the Wang Xingji fan factory produced a giant screen fan. The fan is 2.6 meters high and 5 meters long, with a net weight of 16 kilograms, which can be regarded as one of the best fans.

In 2005, the antique large silk fan "the whole picture of the new West Lake" came out, the work is 280cm long, the use of traditional brushwork landscape painting techniques, bold and reasonable layout, the new West Lake attractions depicted the whole picture, both atmospheric and beautiful, both bold and delicate, a good expression of the charm of the new West Lake.

Stage fan:

The fan has a close relationship with stage art. Stage fan is a kind of high-level flower fan, known as the best of Hangzhou fan. In the early days, "Wang Xingji" already produced this fan.

The stage fan is divided into theater fan, dance fan, commentary fan and magic fan. In addition to the fan surface sprinkled with gold appliqués or large handle lacquer, to ensure bright and eye-catching, can also be customized according to the customer or the play. Mei Lanfang, a master of the arts, in the 1930s, in the performance of "Drunkenness of the Concubine", the "fan dance" that dances up and down is made by "Wang Xingji".

General fan only front and back fan, after the "Wang Xingji" elaborate design, a fan left and right closed, now three different brightly colored fan, it is really wonderful, which is performed on the stage with the magic fan.

Magic fan production techniques used in the design of Olympic tourism souvenirs, the creation of an origami fan can be opened in different directions, showing three different patterns, respectively, the Peking Opera face, the national treasure of the panda and the words "Beijing welcomes you", randomly changing, interesting, both up and down the expression of the joy of the Olympic Games **** welcome, but also add to the leisure fun! It can not only show the joy of welcoming the Olympic Games in China, but also add fun to leisure.

Ivory fan:

China's use of ivory as raw material for the production of fans has a long history, but are to fan in the face of the appearance of the annex. It is only in modern times that the whole fan is made of ivory. Wang Xingji fan factory production of ivory fan specifications smaller, using African ivory as raw material, the texture is tough, fine clean. The fan bone is processed by pulling, skeletonizing, carving, engraving and other crafts, and the big side is carved into the shape of Ruyi every time. The surface of the fan is decorated with real gold foil, which is very noble and elegant, and is one of the treasures of the fan. It is one of the traditional products of Hangzhou fans.

White Bone Fan:

White Bone Fan is a kind of unique fan in Hangzhou fan, its fan bone has 16 to 18, with bleached cow ribs refined and made of paper or silk fan, suitable for inscriptions and paintings. 1983, "Wang Xingji" factory introduced miniature white bone fan, its specifications for 66 mm to 100 mm, suitable for indoor display. Suitable for indoor display on the shelf, very elegant.

Feather fan:

Feather fan has a longer history than the Palace fan. Raw materials for making feather fans are mainly bird feathers. Hanging fan in the feather fan category, mainly goose feather fan, velvet fan and peacock hair fan. It is complex, demanding process, only the selection of feathers need to be the same color, similar length, feathers Chuan row symmetrical left and right.