The Chinese fan contains abundant cultural connotation. It is a component of the Chinese culture. It is closely linked to bamboo culture and Buddhism culture. The fan has already had a history of more than 3000 years in China. After thousands of years of development, there are several hundred kinds of fans in China now. And the materials of the Chinese fan are various, such as bamboo, wood, paper, ivory, hawksbill, emerald, feather, even the wheat stem or cattail leaf, etc. So China is praised as “The Fan Kingdom”.

The fan initially is made of colorful pheasant feather. If you understand China’s history, perhaps you know Zhu Ge Liang in the Three Kingdoms Period. His feather fan is made of goose feather. People began to make the fan with silk fabrics such as the damask silk, gauze silk, etc. in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Meanwhile, people embroider flower, figure, etc. on the fan. There were round, sunflower shape, plum blossom shape, hexagon in forms of the fan at that time; the fan handle is made by wood or bamboo, etc.; In addition there are ornaments such as fan pendant, tassel, jade article, etc. Just like the fan which the beauty takes in the above picture. The folding fan was becoming widely popular gradually in Sung Dynasty. And it is became a kind of fashion that write poem or paint on the fun.

The Chinese fan has already become the exquisite handicraft product that merges practical value and aesthetics value. The Chinese fan has already developed into the art appreciation product gradually. The artistic value of the fan is promoted greatly. It becomes the collector’s pet now.

I find a video that make Chinese fan on the Internet. If you are interested, may make a Chinese fan by oneself.