In China's rich and varied arts, fans are a special category. Writing and painting on a fan is a unique phenomenon in the art history of China and even the world. The story in the Book of Jin, "Only the word is a book, and you get a hundred yuan", shows that the literati and fans have formed an indissoluble bond. The so-called "elegant things have sleeves" can become the core content of the relationship between fans and calligraphy and painting. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, a bowl of rice with bamboo as the skeleton and thin silk as the paste became an important form of classical art in China because of its rich and simple color paintings. The works of Tuan Fan in Song Dynasty paintings have been preserved to this day, from which we can see that the painter's elegant demeanor is an important part of Song Dynasty art; Since then, with the prosperity of the paper industry, folding fans have appeared in large numbers. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, almost all literati painters and painters had typical experiences of writing and painting on the fan, thus forming the heyday of fan art development. Correspondingly, Fan's collection has also become an important category in the art collection of calligraphy and painting.

The combination of calligraphy and painting began in the Ming Dynasty because of the appearance of folding fans. China people have always had this habit, and a practical product always needs to be artistic. In this way, painters and painters in Ming and Qing dynasties managed fan painting, which gradually decided that fan painting was widely popularized and circulated as a unique art variety, and then gradually formed an independent aesthetic system of fan painting. Until the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, fan paintings were works of art that painters and painters were willing to play with and collect.

As a practical tool for cooling, dustproof, shading and etiquette, fans have unique charm because of calligraphy and painting, and have their own development history because of their charm, which has been passed down from generation to generation and influenced South Korea, Japan and other places in Asian countries.

At that time, Emperor Qianlong ordered Zhang Ruoai, a minister of rites and painter, to catalog 300 folding fans in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties in the palace. Cheating is popular among literati. Folk fan industry, there are professional art dealers and fan villages, operating calligraphy and painting into fans, playing with fans and hiding fans has become a common practice. Yang Collection Poetry and Immortal Painting and Calligraphy Fans Club was established in Beijing from 65438 to 0924. It has held many fan exhibitions in the waterside pavilion of Zhongshan Park, displaying the works of famous people such as Liang Qichao, Qi Baishi and so on, which opened the history of fan art exhibitions for the public.