Chapter 55: The Ancient Fan (1)

"The night is as cool as water, and the small fan flutters fireflies." Blue eucalyptus holds a fan, the fan is the landscape, there is a beautiful woman behind the fan, the opening is poetic, and it is a beautiful thing. The beauty of the ancient Chinese fan is seen horizontally as a peak on the side of the ridge.

In ancient times, the fan was called shaking the wind and cool friends, and in addition to the use of the fan, the literati used the fan for elegance, the beautiful woman used the fan to do the boudoirs, the politicians used the fan to show the ceremony, the royal fan used the prestige, the fan is a thing, behind the aesthetic taste, but also the cultural charm.

Fan is a special cultural phenomenon in China. Historically, literati and artists have always liked to inscribe poems and paint on fans.

Chinese fan has a profound cultural heritage, is an integral part of the national culture, it has a close relationship with bamboo culture, Buddhist culture, China has the fan kingdom said.

In ancient China, the fan was also known as "shaking wind" and "cool friend". According to legend, in the Yu Shun era, there was a Jin Dynasty Cui Bao's "Ancient and Modern Notes" once recorded that "Shun made five fans".

The fan is a practical thing, because of its thinness and large area, it can be used to fan the wind to cool down. China has always had a tradition of decorating everyday utensils, so there are carvings on the fan handle and fan bones, and calligraphy and painting are added to the front and back of the fan surface to make it more pleasing to the eye.

In ancient times, the fan was sometimes regarded as a symbol of official position, probably because most of the ancient officials were literati, and the literati often carried a fan with them, and often held the fan on various occasions. During the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang held a feather fan in his hand and strategized, and his demeanor was leisurely, and later people regarded the feather fan as a symbol of wisdom.

Chinese fan has a profound cultural heritage, is an integral part of the national culture, it has a close relationship with bamboo culture, Buddhist culture, China has the fan kingdom said. In ancient China, the fan was also known as "shaking wind" and "cool friend". According to legend, in the Yu Shun era, there was a Jin Dynasty Cui Bao's "Ancient and Modern Notes" once recorded that "Shun made five fans".

The fan is a wind-inducing product, a must-have thing for summer time, and its main function is generally to fan the wind to dispel heat. The types of fans include feather fans, pu fans, pheasant fans, group fans, folding fans, silk palace fans, mud gold fans, black paper fans, sandalwood fans and so on.

Chinese fans, with a variety of shapes and styles. Coupled with the meticulous carving, carving, ironing, drilling or celebrity poems and paintings, the art of fans is worth a hundred times.

The group fan is also known as the palace fan and the fan. Traditional Chinese crafts and artworks. It is a round fan with a handle. The fan originated in China. The fan first appeared in the Shang Dynasty and was made of colorful pheasant feathers, which was called the "barrier fan".

At that time, the fan was not used to fan the wind to cool down, but as a shade and shelter from the sand when the emperor went out to patrol. After the Western Han Dynasty, fans began to be used to keep cool. During the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang gently shook the goose feather fan, and he had a clever plan and strategized. The feather fan is soft and soft, and it does not enter the body.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, most of the feather fans were changed to fabrics such as silk, silk, and silk in order to embellish embroidery paintings. A bright moon-shaped fan is called a "fan" or "group fan", also called a "acacia fan". At that time, the fan had the shape of a long circle, sunflower, plum blossom, hexagonal, and plaque circle; There are also handles of wood, bamboo, bone and other materials; There are also fan pendants, tassels, and jade ornaments.

In the Song Dynasty, it was called a fan, and it all referred to a fan. Wang Changling's poem "Long Letter and Sorrow" "The broom is opened in the autumn of the Ming Dynasty, and the fans are wandering together". "New Record of Cane Fan" contains the general plain silk in modern times, stretched on both sides, or mud gold, porcelain blue, lake color, there are full moon, waist round, hexagonal styles, all of which are famous calligraphy and painting, the handle is made of plum branding, Xiangfei, palm bamboo, there are also foreign lacquer, ivory and the like. It's called "Tuan Fan". Round or nearly circular sector with a small handle.

Round or nearly round, the handle is not long, mostly worn by women in the Tang Dynasty, and the Chinese fan is generally painted on the fan surface with a picture of a lady. It is commonly used in geisha performances in Japan, and in ancient Japan, it was used as a family emblem. The fan is an invention of China, also known as the fan, and then introduced to Japan. Tuan fan was introduced to Japan by the Tang Dynasty during the Nara period. In Japan, it was the nobility of the court who first used the fan. It was not until the end of the Heian period that it was allowed to be used by the common people.

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