How to divide the types of fans according to the production materials?

There are many types and varieties of fans, which can be roughly divided into two categories according to shape and function. One is a flat fan that cannot be folded, which is the earliest shape of a fan, and the other is a fan.com/Products/Foldingfan/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>Folding fan, which can be folded and folded freely and is easy to carry. Ancient fans were generally made of bamboo and bird feathers.

1. What are the types of bamboo fan.com/Products/Foldingfan/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>Folding fans:

1. Silk fan (also known as bamboo silk fan): Cut green silk into bamboo threads and weave them into square, round, hexagonal and other shapes. Its features are lightweight

2. Green bamboo fan: a fan made of green bamboo sheets (moso bamboo and bamboo skin).

3. Jade fan (also known as bamboo spring fan), recorded in the article "Lagerstroemia Flower Museum Miscellaneous (Xinlu fan)" written by Wang Tingding in the Qing Dynasty. There are many giant bamboos in the Kuocang Mountains of Zhejiang, some of them encircling to two feet. The people of Bihu can cut it and cut it, take it five or six inches wide and a foot long, and iron it to make it flat. Its shape is wider at the top and narrower at the bottom. It is carved with mahogany or bright horns and tortoiseshell as a handle, and it is installed as a fan. Calligraphy and painting can be engraved on both sides. Xu Huanong Taishi once purchased it as a garden teacher of Fengqu: The teacher loves its novel and ingenious shape, natural color, and languid like jade, because it is titled "Jade fan"

4. Instant noodles (also known as the door leaf): It is a single leaf shaped like a door, asymmetrical left and right, with the fan face on one side, becoming a regular rectangle. This shape of the fan can also be called a single door leaf.

There are many types of lupins with different shapes. fans are made of feathers with symmetrical wings of birds, which are collectively referred to as feather fans. The characteristics of this fan are: natural patterns, elegant colors, smooth and bright. As early as the Three Kingdoms and the Second Jin Dynasty, the feather fan was popular in the military. Zhuge Liang wore a lun scarf and shook the feather fan from his heart, and everyone knew it. Later generations called the shape of his hand-held feather fan as Zhuge Liang fan, and the name of this fan has been in use for more than a thousand years.

2. The feather fan is named according to the feathers of the bird used:

1. Eagle-hair fan: The fan is made of the feathers of the two wings of the eagle. The handle is very particular, and the handle is made of ivory or horn.

2. Big wild goose hair fan: The feather of the wild goose is made into a fan, and the handle of the fan is made of sheep's foot bone or mahogany.

3. Peacock hair fan: The fan is made by the method of making a feather fan, which is rich and gorgeous.

4. Fluff fan: fans made from the belly of horse eagle birds (also known as mixed carving males) are collectively referred to as fluff fans. Natural colors, gray, pale Chu color, pure white. White can be dyed pale yellow, pink green, pink. Its characteristics are light and elegant, and can be used as stage props and decoration.

3. The names of other raw materials fans

1. Wan fan: It originated from the Han Dynasty. At that time, silk weaving craftsmanship was quite developed. Wan, silk, plain, silk and silk were used as fans. Wan fan is also called acacia fan, fan.com/Products/Palacefan/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>Palace fan, and group fan, which is actually the same thing. This fan is composed of three parts: face, frame and handle. The materials for making it are expensive. At that time, due to the low productivity, ordinary people could not use it. The ones used in the imperial palace are called fan.com/Products/Palacefan/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>Palace fans, and those used by palace eunuchs are called wan fans.

2. Stag tail and stag tail fan: During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, stag tail, stag tail fan and Biyi fan appeared one after another. "Stag" is the leader of the deer, holding the tail of the stag in his hand, which means "leader of the group". Legend has it that the stag-tail fan was founded by Xiao Gang, Emperor Jianwen of Liang Jian, and it is close to the simplification of the stag's tail. Two small pieces of tail hair are added to the fixed-style fan.

3. Kwai fan: During the Three Kingdoms and the Second Jin Dynasty, there were not only "stag tail", "stag tail fan", etc., but also fan.com/Products/Foldingfan/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>Folding fans and cheap and practical sunflower fans. This fan is produced in the coastal areas of my country, and the most famous is the sunflower fan produced in Xinhui County, Guangdong. The sunflower fan is made from the front leaves of the sunflower tree, so it is named the sunflower fan. This fan is light and airy. There are two types of sunflower fans: Sanqi fans (the common big banana fans) and glass fans (thin). There are dozens of varieties and names. Different fans are made according to the age of the sunflower leaves and take different fan names.

4. Wheat straw fan: The fan is made of straw as the material, so it is called the straw fan. After the wheat is harvested, weave the pole into a flat belt shape about half an inch wide, nail it into a compass shape like a pot, and cut the bamboo piece (seven or eight inches long) into two pieces about three inches long. A small circle of five-color silk satin is attached, embroidered with landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, and the fine straw is golden and moist, and it can also be bleached. The fan made of this straw is delicate and elegant.

5. Pucao fan: Produced in Linfen, Shanxi Province, it is made of Pucao into peach-shaped and chicken-heart-shaped fans. It is named after the name of the grass.