The fan history is caught and called at first " Five bright fans " . Shun seeks talent to complement in order to set up in a wide range of seeing and hearing by oneself, has made five bright fans according to legend. One kind has appeared the Yin Dynasty week " Zhai leaf " ,That is made of multicoloured pheasant tail feathers, so " feather fans " Saying. Hit and say " elegantly ": "Call the door leaf with the wood, call the fan with the reed. " Infer from this, the early fan may be the reed in the rectangle to arrange things. The early fan is not used for enjoying the cool, but the one that is used as ruler's etiquette has, to also let " The fan of flags, weapons, etc. carried by a guard of honor " . Our country after the Chinese Qin, shape such as with the proper method, round, six mao mainly of structure of the fan, surface fabric of fan adopt silk that silk knit plain, because palace spend, much, also call " mandarin fan " ,Two generations of Sui and Tang dynasties, that prevailed in generation was mainly fine silk fabrics fan and feather fan, and a small amount of paper fan. Since Song, the folding fan has prevailed gradually. In the period of Ming and Qing, Zhejiang, Suzhou, Sichuan and other places abounded with the folding fan, autographed and drew a picture and also revitalized herein. This consummate skill has been introduced to Europe since Ming Dynasty, then prevail in the world.

Cool friend, an another name of the fan. Song TaoGu " records the utensil bluely and greenly and differently ": "There are clouds of eight poems on the cheek in the window in trader's mountain hall: ' net monarch sweeps the floating dust, the cool friend employs the fresh breeze. ' as fan been for broom the bright. "
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"The fan is windy, take it in hands, someone comes to borrow, wait until the Beginning of Winter. " This is town folk a folk rhyme on everybody's lips of old Beijing. When old in Beijing, there is not electric fan of air conditioner, some rank and file in the compound occupied by many households of Chinese courtyard house, lowering in hot France in the most frequently used heatstroke prevention of summer is a use fan. Midsummer dripping with sweat heat, the fan fan of a fan, the fresh breeze comes slowly, it is nice and cool and pleasant, really satisfied.
The fan starts to take the place of in the Yin Dynasty, that was more than 3,000 years ago, have already recorded in " ancient and present note " taken the place of in the Jin Dynasty.
The fan, have another name called? ," the dialect is mixed and cleared up " the cloud of the page to " raise the sub law speech " in the book: "The fan and call it in the east closing? ,And the fan called in the west closing, the fan is to also introduce oneself in Jiangdong today? . " . The fan initially, it is made that are mostly the feather. " fan " Under a word of word is a feather word, the ancient fan also calls " the feather fan " . Since ancient times, the variety of the fan is numerous, there are feather fan, mandarin fan, bamboo fan, wheat stalk fan, reed fan, rattan fan, sandalwood fan, silk fan, round fan, paper fan, folding fan, palm-leaf fan Wait for a lot of kind. Fans are different because of the area of north and south, the identity of the rich of the dignitary, scholarly family, rank and file men and women is different, fans used are different too. From first feather fan, decorating in palace, gather from Zhou Zhao king red magpie maos of feather honourable so as to to show for fan, feather fan and round fan, silk fan which the girl from a good family used getting to Zhu Ge-liang and is deemed intelligence symbolizes, and then reach modern's commonly used elegant folding fan, the masses' cattail leaf fan, receive exceptional favors of people.
There is retail shop specializing in fan on the old downtown streets in old times of Beijing, is called the fan village or paper fan villaged. Fan in order to sell paper fan as main fact, because it have seasonality, run paper and writing brush, ink stick, ink slab and paper,etc. concurrently also village, thus the paper fan village gains the name. Have generally fan village it make by fan workshop one that supply specially,or before factory behind shop, market one's own products and concurrently sell in batches.
The fan village of old Beijing centres in Qianmen and polishes the factory area, there are many old established firms that go through centuries there, sell, make various fan, polish factory too because their culture atmosphere become old a cultural street of Beijing. Sell the fan village of the fan in order to solicit customers, a heavy curtain is hung in front of the door more, the size of the fan heavy curtain comes in different sizes, is painted with opera personages or birds and flowers on both sides of the covering of a fan, bright in luster, the model is vivid, in order to attract customers.
Use the widest, most popular one to be big palm-leaf fan and folding fan in old Beijing. The big palm-leaf fan is the good and most cheap. Palm-leaf fan bajiao banana leaf make, made of Pu Kui's leaf actually. Pu Kui is also called sunflower tree, Pu YeKui, flabellum sunflower, its tree form is very like the palm, produced in every province in the South. The palm-leaf fan in Beijing, are all that flabellum sunflowers from the South are made into.
Heavy Pu's palm-leaf fun is generally 0.33 meters to see the round, not only the cheap and use wind is enormous, specially nice and cool, welcomed by the common people in old Beijing very much: When old in Beijing, the middle-aged and elderly people often take the cattail leaf fan, sit in the way of the Chinese courtyard house, compound occupied by many households, it is short the fan is chatted about in parents; The guys are often under the street lamp in the hutong, play chess and chat idly, the fan hot wind; The children often rob the grandmas' big cattail leaf fan too, the horse rides to put and act as the hip. The big cattail leaf fan is a unique hutong scenery in summer in old Beijing. The hot heat not only can clear away heat and relieve summer heat while using the fan in dog days, but also can drive mosquitoes, the arm waves the fan ceaselessly, is favorable to the health too. Nowadays Beijing is so very difficult as to buy in the large such cattail leaf fan, see in the supermarket once in a while, see the price makes people give up the nostalgic idea.
Folding fan, have another name called bat's fan. It declare at Northern Song Dynasty with in the period of,last our country the Korea one folding fan. When the Ming and Qing Dynasties, elaborate the magnificent " tribute fan " in exclusive Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces, some villages, Pay tribute to the emperor " Hired " . The emperor at that time likes the folding fan very much, often award the folding fan to use for the minister.
The folding fan generally divides the large folding fan in the opera program, military and ugly black folding fans catching of chivalrous persons of towns and villages all over the country, opera, white folding fan and folding fan of calligraphy and painting which common people, officer, gentry, cultured gentle person used. Fan bone very exquisite in the past, divide into bamboo bone, getting wooden, ivory, autumn horn kind, old fragrant kind,etc.. No matter which kind of bone of fan, be worked with great care in making.
The fan bone of old Beijing takes bamboo as the core, beast's bone or sandalwood,etc. are made too. The exquisite fan bone is engraved by the classic, is carved with mountains and rivers, flowers and personage more on the bone of fan. The multi-purpose and exquisite mulberry paper of covering of a fan, high beautiful paper,etc. are made, the covering of a fan, except printing mountains and rivers, flowers, opera personage, the type of facial make up and poetic prose, there is net one too, for the classic to autograph and write a poem on occasion and draw a picture. Celebrated painter Qi Baishi, calligraphy and painting classics and celebrities of the opera circle such as Zhang Daqian,etc. when old in Beijing, often draw a picture and write a poem on occasion on the covering of a fan, some fans have already become precious historical relics and is collected now, appear at the auction of calligraphy and painting once in a while, the price is quite high too.
The fan, the tool that had already not only enjoyed the cool, perfect in workmanship in addition, the celebrity writes a poem on occasion and draws a picture, the handicraft that has become with extremely high artistic value, for compatriots to admire and collect.
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