Jiuhua fan has a history of more than 2200 years in China, and its traceable inheritance has been more than 140 years.
The earliest historical record is in the Western Han Dynasty, written by Liu Xin and copied by Ge Hong in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Volume 1 of Xijing miscellany records that the Han Palace fans include mica fans, peacock fans, emerald feather fans, Jiuhua fans and five Ming fans.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Heng of the Han Dynasty rewarded the Jiuhua fan to Cao Teng, which was handed down to future generations. Cao Zhi, the son of Cao Cao, was able to see it personally and felt it, so he wrote the "Ode to the Jiuhua fan" for writing, and there was an allusion that Yang Xiu delayed the Jiuhua fan to become a fly.
During the northern and Southern Dynasties, Liang Shen wrote about "singing bamboo lanterns": "although it is a Jiuhua fan, chatting can purify the inflammatory atmosphere."
Tang Dynasty poet Liang Xuan's "nine Chinese fans with lanterns" in "Tianmen street, west view, King Rong hires concubines"“
"Jiuhua fan" written by Wang Zhi of the Song Dynasty: "the Jade axe is built into a jade rabbit palace. The sun is rustling and the autumn wind is blowing. The Jiuhua is purple and emerald in the air, and the second one is picked up in the palm."
In the Yanjing chapter by Ou Daren of the Ming Dynasty, "the dust chases the demon child and the nine Chinese fan".
During the Qing Dynasty, the Han Palace fan declined and was gradually forgotten. It was not until the Republic of China, when Gan Xianhua founded the Jiuhua fan workshop and improved the Han Palace fan that the Jiuhua fan was inherited. There were Jiuhua fans in every dynasty and they were deeply loved by people.
Jiuhua fan is made of unique materials, fine workmanship, unique cultural heritage and long development history. It is a superior national traditional handicraft, full of national culture, and has great national characteristics. There have been five generations of traceable inheritance, which conforms to the development of the times and technological reform and innovation. From the perspective of cultural value, Jiuhua fan has very high appreciation value. It is suitable for literati to practice calligraphy and painting. It is an excellent gift for others.
For more than 100 years, Jiuhua fan has been a family inheritance, and the middle is almost faulted until master Gan Xianhua resumed his old business, which allowed Jiuhua fan to return to people's vision. In order to better protect the healthy development of Jiuhua fan production industry, Gan Lin established Qingyang Tianyi e-commerce Co., Ltd., registered trademarks such as "Jiuhua fan", "Deyuan Pavilion" and "Gan Xianhua", established wechat, Weibo and other online publicity accounts, and opened Taobao Pinduoduo and other online sales channels,
In 2019, he was invited by Chizhou folk artists association to participate in the fourth Anhui paper cutting art festival and the third Fuyang Cultural Expo, during which he was deeply loved by art lovers.
Gan Xianhua and Jiuhua fan can be traced back to the fourth generation of heirs. He learned fan making skills from his father when he was young. He has accumulated rich experience in fan making through more than 40 years of mining, research and protection of Jiuhua fan technology. In 2013, I helped my friends repair ancient fans and returned home with the help of my friends to specialize in the repair of ancient fans. In 2016, Ganlin, the fifth generation successor, established Qingyang Tianyi e-commerce Co., Ltd., completed relevant patent applications, and cultivated nearly 10 mu of bamboo and wood planting bases. In 2018, he was invited by Chizhou folk artists association to participate in the fourth Anhui paper cutting art festival and the third Fuyang Cultural Expo. Gan Xianhua fan art studio and Jiuhua fan exhibition hall will be established in 2019. In 2022, the folk art exhibition of "scenery of prosperous times" held by Chizhou Folk Artists Association won the silver and bronze awards...