How to fold a fan by hand

The manual folding process of folding fan is as follows:

1. Take out a piece of A4 paper and fold the short side in half. Part of it is folded. Fold it again and make a crease. Fold along the crease, then turn it over.

2. Fold the crease outward and inward, and treat the other part in the same way. After folding in half, stick the two ends together.

3. After unfolding, the handmade fan is finished.

Paper fan culture has a profound cultural background in China, which is an integral part of Chinese national culture and closely related to bamboo culture and Buddhist culture. China has always been called the kingdom of fan manufacturing. Fans are popular in China not only because of their elegance and delicacy, but also because of the art of calligraphy and painting.

Fans have a long history in China. According to historical records, "The Yellow Emperor made five Ming Fan", which is an early statement. Feather fans made of Western Zhou feathers have aesthetic decoration function. Lightweight and simple bamboo fans began to be used in the Han Dynasty, and after the Han Dynasty, ten thousand fans with bamboo as the frame and silk as the fan surface appeared.

Wan Fan, also known as Tuan Fan, is suitable for painting and calligraphy. It is made of bones, jade, ivory, etc. It is precious and elegant. This kind of fan has been popular in China for more than 1000 years, especially suitable for boudoir ladies. Zhang Yanyuan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, recorded in the History of Famous Paintings that Yang Xiu, a famous scholar, drew a fan for Cao Cao and accidentally dropped an ink spot, so he painted it as a fly.