Description
Shaken in hand and a cool breeze embraces you,” this is one
description of the cooling power of the delicate Chinese fan.
The history of Chinese fan can be dated to over 3,**0 years ago,
around the Shang Dynasty. When talking about fans today, we
usually refer to the exquisite folding fan, which is said to be
introduced to China from Japan during the late Song Dynasty.
If a famous artist painted the fan, it could be worth a lot of
money. For example, a folding fan painted with running script of
Chinese calligraphy by Zhang Daqian, a famous Chinese painter, sold
for HK$**2,**0. And many contemporary painters, like Wu Changshuo,
Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, are known as elite fan-painting artists.
Today, there are over **0 kinds of fans in China, of which the
sandalwood fan from Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, the damask silk fan
from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, the fire-painting fan from
Guangdong Province and the bamboo thread fan are known as the four
most famous fans of China
