Fan dance, generalized to refer to the fan as the main props of the dance. It is one of China's traditional folk dance forms, Han, Hani, Korean and other ethnic groups in the course of long-term history, have formed their own style of different fan dance. Fan dance as China's ancient form of music and dance, the ancient court fan dance is mostly performed by women, gentle and soft movements, elegant and smooth, the performance of women's light and airy, lyrical and graceful beauty, or dancers with the image of a sorcerer holding a fan dance appeared, as a religious ritual "witch dance" performance has a strong mythological ghosts and ghosts color.
China's folk music and dance also like to use the fan as a prop. In the north of the popular Han Chinese folk music and dance Yangge, is the use of fans or handkerchiefs, colorful silk performances, different characters holding different fans, accompanied by the rhythm of the music and waving into the fun. "Yunnan lantern" dance performance, the dancers male holding colorful lanterns, female holding flower fans, lanterns, in the dance of the lanterns and fans intertwined, floating rhythm, pure and simple and natural and elegant and unrestrained, people will be compared to the beautiful. People liken it to the beautiful and chic "camellia".
Others such as the southern "tea lights" music and dance, dancers left hand tea basket, right hand colorful fan, singing and dancing. Jiangxi "Gannan tea-picking dance", the dancers action has fan flower, and is divided into men and women common single fan flower and more for women's double fan flower, and the formation of the dance fan flower of the basic essentials: "fan flower flower flower lies in the hand, the force of the wrist is not in the elbow, the left flinging the water sleeve right swinging fan, the ten fingers holding the two arms away. "