1, feather fan
Feather fans have a history of 3000 years. Wen Mingzhen Heng's Long History Tales Volume 7: "Fan, feather fan is the oldest." The word "fan" from "feather fan" also proves that the appearance of feather fan is the earliest in this big family.
Bao's Notes on Ancient and Modern Times: "Fengwei Fan began in Yin Emperor." According to "Notes on Wang Jia of the Former Qin Dynasty", feather fans began in the reign of King Zhao of Zhou Dynasty, and there was a saying that they used magpie wings as fans, so feather fans have a history of 3,000 years.
2. Circular fan
Silk fan, also known as Wan Fan, Tuan Fan and Fan Luo, appeared after feather fan and before folding fan. Ban Jieyu, the concubine of the Western Han Emperor, wrote a famous "Song of the Round Fan": "The newly made Su is as bright as frost and snow. Cut into acacia fans, round like the bright moon. In and out of your arms, shaking the breeze. I am often afraid that the autumn festival will come and the cold will seize the heat. Abandon donations, and be kind. "
3. Rattan fan
Rattan is a creeping plant, including white rattan, red rattan and wisteria, with flexible texture. In the Qing dynasty, the fans made the fan with very thin dry rattan, which was durable.
4. Straw fan
A New Record of Rattan Fan by Wang Tingding in Qing Dynasty: Wheat fan: Wheat straw is woven into a flat belt, which is more than one inch wide and circled into a regular shape, such as a basin. Bamboo pieces are sandwiched on both sides to make handles, and a small circle of five-color satin is stuck in the middle to embroider landscapes and figures. Extremely fine, golden and moist, light and convenient.
Most Zhejiang people used to live in Yanju. There are thin bamboo cut into a circle, densely woven straw, and combined into gardenia, ancient coins and swastika in the handle, all of which are used by children.
The wheat fan he said is also called wheat straw fan and wheat straw fan.
5, cattle fracture fan
Produced in Suzhou, Changzhou, Jiangxi, Guangzhou and other places, with buffalo ribs as raw materials. It has to go through many processes such as scraping, sawing, planing, deleting customs, modeling, painting, sanding and polishing. It is delicate and white, just like an ivory folding fan.
6. Gong Fan
During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, Gong Juewu, a fan-making artist in Ziliujing, Sichuan (now Zigong City), wove a thin fan with the words "Fu Lu Xi Shou" or "Magpie Noisy Plum" on the fan surface, which was deeply loved by people.
7.jade fan
Wang Qing Ding Ting's New Record of Rattan Fan: Jade Fan: There are many giant bamboos in Kucang Mountain, Zhejiang Province, some of which are surrounded by two feet. Bihu people can cut it off, take it five or six inches wide and one foot long, take iron as a flat, and slightly kill its shape. Carve a handle from mahogany or tortoise shell, put it into a fan, and engrave calligraphy and painting on both sides.
Master Xu once bought it as a master of Qu Yuan. Teachers like its novel and unique shape, and its color is as white as jade, because it is named "Yupan Fan". This kind of fan is also produced in Dianjiang, Sichuan, also known as "Bamboo Spring Fan".
8. Silk fans
Green bamboo fan is also called silk fan or bamboo fan. Wang Qing Ding Ting's "A New Record of Rattan Fan": "Silk fan: It comes from the surface of the ridge, cut bamboo green as thin as wisps, woven into cloth, smooth and seamless, square, round and hexagonal. After five or six years, the color is rosy, the wind is cooler, and the style is good. " This kind of fan is also produced in Qingshen County, Sichuan Province, and is also called "Green Bamboo Fan" or "Bamboo Silk Fan".
Another kind of low-grade bamboo fan made of coarse bamboo chips is produced in northern Zhejiang and southern Anhui. Durable and cheap, both urban and rural residents like to use it.
9.banana fan
Banana fan, also known as cattail fan, sunflower fan and mallow fan. This kind of fan is light, windy and cheap, and people like to use it since ancient times.
10, portable fan
Portable fans are also called pocket fans. Can be freely folded, small and exquisite, and easy to carry. One is the iron handle, the fan shell is stamped with iron sheet, painted with various colors of paint and colored paper sectors, with novel design and low price. The other is wooden handle or bamboo handle, which is made of colored paper or fragrant wood and can be folded freely.