I remember that people often hold fans in costume dramas, and that kind of fan is what we are going to talk about today. Bian Xiao always thinks that folding fans are very cultural things. I remember that the people holding that fan were all ancient literati. In short, holding that folding fan has a feeling that the whole person is very inclusive. However, there are different opinions about where the folding fan originated, and there has been no conclusion. Today, Bian Xiao will learn about the origin of folding fans with you.

Originated from the western Han dynasty theory

Feng Shu's Heart Sutra Folding Fan and Han Shu records: "However, when there is no dignity, stop at the meeting and cross Mazhangtai Street to meet the horse." Some people infer that instant noodles are folding fans. The reason is that "Ma Xu" is whipping the horse, so it is necessary to close the folding fan to catch the horse. Another way of saying it is that "Ma Xu" means touching and patting. Biography of Historical Records of Wu Wang: "Because of its back". The reflection of Wei Shuwu Diji: "Laugh with your hands". Yan Shigu, a native of the Tang Dynasty, made a note for it: "The noodles are convenient, so it is difficult to cover them." . If you don't want to meet people, you will get it if you block your face, so it's called convenient face, also called screen face. "Today, the shaman holds a bamboo fan, which is flat on the top and round on the bottom. It is an ancient instant noodle. So the "instant noodles" here are not folding fans, but bamboo fans with semicircles on them, which were still used by monks in the Tang Dynasty.

Originated from the eastern Jin theory

Funny stories of fans, the source and flow of fans, etc. It is believed that fans originated in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The main evidence comes from Justin, Volume 29 of the Book of Jin, in which Xie An gave Yuan Hong a fan and replied, "We should encourage Ren and comfort him." Later, folding fans were also called "Renfeng", so some people thought that what Xie An gave here was folding fans. But there is not enough evidence from the text to prove that this is a folding fan. Moreover, in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it was popular to talk about metaphysics by ignoring people and holding their tails (a kind of fan). "Notes on the Twenty-two Histories" says: "People in the Six Dynasties were lighter than those who used ostrich tails (ZH incarnation)." Moreover, there is no record of folding fans in the annals of the Three Kingdoms and the Book of Jin.

Theory originated from Nanqi

"Banana Window Talking about Fan" wrote: "Folding fan is commonly known as folding fan, and it is called gathering head fan in ancient times, also known as gathering bone fan, which began in the Northern Song Dynasty and originated in the Southern Qi Dynasty." The Book of Southern Qi:' Chu Yuan fanned the sun with his waist', and Tong said:' The waist fan is a folding fan'. But it was not popular at that time. By the Northern Song Dynasty, a folding fan appeared in the market ... it was three or four feet wide, and when it was combined, it had only two fingers', which showed that it was no longer used by a few people. "

There is no accurate conclusion about the origin of folding fans. But folding fan is a representative work with certain China characteristics. The ancients wrote landscape paintings and poems on folding fans, which enriched the contents of folding fans. It is said that if there are fans created by famous ancient poets in the world, they must be priceless now. The preserved folding fans also witnessed the development of the times, and the contents on these folding fans can also reflect the social customs and cultural characteristics at that time.