Fans, formerly known as "Instant", are related to feathers. But at that time, the fan was not used to cool off and drive away heat, but to shade the sun and wind, and it was also a ceremony to plug it in the car.
The earliest fan in archaeological discovery was in the Warring States period. A bamboo fan was unearthed from the Chu tomb of Mashan Brick Factory in Jiangling, Hubei Province. The handle of the fan is on one side of the fan, just like a single door. In ancient times, a single door was called a "door", and the fan opened and closed left and right like a portal when it was used for etiquette purposes. It can be proved that the word "Fan" is subordinate to the door.
At least in the Han Dynasty, round fans appeared, because they were made of silk, so they were also called Hewan fans. The round fan is shaped like a full moon, which coincides with the meaning of China people's reunion like the moon and good luck of acacia, so it is also called acacia fan. Fans also have nicknames such as face, toilet face, and obstacle face.
Most of the round fans are "round like a full moon", but there are also many styles such as square circle, waist circle, plum blossom shape and sunflower shape. The appearance of round fan broke the monotonous pattern of feather fan and enriched the fan shape.
Although the area of the fan is limited, it also opens a small world for painters and painters to write poems and paint. Scholars write poems and paint pictures on fans, which greatly improves the cultural taste of fans. At the latest in the Tang Dynasty, round fans with paintings and characters were quite popular. A wooden handle silk round fan with flowers and birds painted on it was unearthed in a Tang tomb in Astana, Xinjiang.
In the Tang Dynasty, Zhou Fang's famous painting "The Picture of Zanhua Ladies" also painted a round fan with peony flowers in its hand. The painting and writing on the round fan in the Song Dynasty reached its peak, and many silk round fans in the Song Dynasty have been preserved to this day.
Men and women used round fans in ancient times, and men with round fans were painted on the murals of Princess Yongtai's tomb and Li Feng's tomb in the Tang Dynasty. However, when folding fans were introduced and became popular, men used folding fans on formal occasions, and round fans became women's special objects.
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Among the poems of Tuan Fan, the most classic is Wang Jian's "Teasing in the Palace: Tuan Fan" in the Tang Dynasty. The round fan used by beautiful women to cover their faces really has a strong feminine taste.
Palace banter: a round fan Tang Dynasty: Wang Jian
A round fan, a round fan, used by a woman in the palace to cover her face.
Sick for three years, looking haggard, no one has discussed with her band!
Orchestral music, orchestral music and ruthless spring grass blocked the road to Zhaoyang Temple.
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Tuan Fan, Tuan Fan, Palace Beauty covers her face with it after illness. After being ill for three years, she looks haggard, and no one will discuss orchestral with her anymore! Orchestral strings, orchestral strings and ruthless spring grass blocked the road to Zhaoyang Hall.
It has a beautiful shape. The ancestors adhered to the philosophy of "taking things near and taking things far away", actively observed the surrounding things, constantly abstracted the beautiful things of nature and integrated them into the round fan. From simple square and round to hexagon, sunflower, plantain, begonia and plum blossom, more and more beautiful styles began to appear on the round fan.
The fan is small. There are pictures to prove it. Generally, maids hold big fans, while the fans held by nobles and ladies in the Tang Dynasty are mostly small and chic. The fan in the Tang Dynasty was made of "light silk", which was very thin. It was very light and unusual for a small fan to hold in your hand. In the Song Dynasty, the diameter of fans was 23-25 cm and the length was 35-40 cm. The fans held by women in Song paintings are even smaller and more lovely.
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