Chinese paper fan art appreciation

China's fan culture has deep cultural heritage and is an integral part of national culture. It has a close relationship with bamboo culture and Buddhist culture. China has always been hailed as the fan kingdom. The main materials of the fan are: bamboo, wood, paper, fan, **, cockroach, jade, fowl, other palm leaves, betel leaf, wheat straw, and comfrey etc. Beautifully sculpted, refined in structure, exquisitely crafted by a skilled craftsman, carved, hot, drilled, or celebrity painted in poems, making fan art worth a hundredfold.

China's fan culture originated in the ancient times. Our ancestors hunted plant leaves or poultry feathers in the summer of the season of brutal inflammation and carried out simple processing to prevent the day from attracting winds. Therefore, the fan is known as a barrier day. This is the beginning of the fan. source. The fan has three or four thousand years of history in China. After several thousand years of evolution, it has evolved and improved into a family of hundreds of fans. However, it is generally classified into two major categories; a flat fan (ie fan, sunflower fan, wheat straw fan, Jade fan, etc.), can not be folded, two folding fans can freely open and close. The flat fan comes from "barrier fan" (palm fan) "bamboo + jie" (ancient bamboo fan is called "bamboo + jie"). During the period of the Warring States and the Qin and Han Dynasties, a semi-regular form of "Ren Mian" was shaped like a single-leafed door. Therefore, it is also called the "Fan Fan" single-leaf fan which can cover the surface and peep into the mainstream of the fan at that time. "Ran noodles" are all made of woven bamboo braids. They come up to the emperor and are used by civilians.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the symmetry “Acacia fan” (also known as the palace fan, the 纨 fan, the group fan) was still round in shape. The characteristic of the happily fan was the white plain with the fan handle as the center axis, the left and right symmetry as the moon, and the 纨 fan as the frame. , Surface into a round or oval shape, with thin silk paste into. At that time, the most elaborate fan was made in the Central Plains area. There was a saying of "Qi Zhu Chu Bamboo," referring to the use of fan blades made from the bamboos of Shandong and Hunan. Han Shi is very popular with this kind of fan and odes to poetry, such as the fan poems of Ban Biao. “The new Qi Qi is a vegetarian, the fresh is like a frosty snow, and it is cut into the Acacia fan. The mission is like a bright moon, and you enter the sleeves of a gentleman and shake the breeze. hair". After this kind of symmetry fan emerged, it has been used for a long time without decay, and it has become a fan of our country's traditional style.

During the Qing Dynasty, the symmetrical type of fan had circular, oblate, rectangular, plum-shaped, sunflower-shaped, melon-shaped, waist-shaped, horseshoe-shaped shapes, except for the circular shapes. These fan-shaped protruding features are symmetrical, lightweight, and strong in craftsmanship. .

The folding fan, known in ancient times as "the gathering head fan", or as a fan, or a folding fan, is named after its two-headed merge when it is folded. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the production of folding fans was quite large. The folding fan became popular in the Ming Dynasty. The emperor called on the in-house craftsmen to imitate the Koryo fan to absorb foreign crafts and promote the domestic fan development.