Fans existed in China about 3,000 years ago during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.
There are many types of Chinese fans
, including
paper fans
, silk fans,
kwai fans
,
feather fans
, bamboo fans, and
wheat straw fans
. There are also square and round shapes of fans, as well as plum blossom, begonia and sunflower shapes.
China's fans have a wide variety of names and colors. There are
bamboo fans
,
wheat fans
, betel nut fans,
pocket fans
, silk fans,
feather fans
, wood-carved fans, jade-carved fans,
tooth-carved
fans,
sandalwood
fans, folding fans,
drum fans
, and other fans.
Duanfan
, dude fan, silk fan, bushy fan,, cocoon fan, fire
painted fan
,
bamboo silk fan
, printed paper fan, plastic fan and so on. All to beautiful shape, exquisite craftsmanship, famous at home and abroad, become a rare
Arts and crafts
fan can be appreciated separately fan painting and calligraphy, fan stock and its carving, but also as a whole to appreciate. Fan painting and calligraphy to the fine to the whole for the top, fan stock carvings have elegant and vulgar points, painting and calligraphy fan fan stock complement each other, fan to "raw spicy". Collection is mainly folding fan into fan and folding fan and fan mounted piece, the collection to consider is "true, fine, new".
Poetry and painting on the fan, is a major feature of the Chinese fan. From ancient times to the present, many famous Chinese calligraphers, painters like "title fan", "painting fan", leaving a lot of beautiful masterpieces.
The most common type of fan in China is the folding fan, which is both convenient and elegant in the hand. The most famous place in China for producing folding fans is Hangzhou. Hangzhou's folding fans often use expensive materials to make
fan bones
. The famous black paper fan,
tanxiang fan
and
ivory fan
are not only the best of Chinese fans, but also famous in the world.
Fan for many years has been the best way to express people's pleasure, lyricism and meaning, but also the heritage of the Chinese nation's wisdom and civilization of the witness of the art product. Such as
Tang Pak Fu
,
Lang Shining
fans are the classic waves in the vast ocean of art.