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Wang's Folding Fan

Pub Date:2022-08-15 09:14 Source:cnanhui.org

Folding fan, an important symbol of Chinese culture, has a history over 3,000 years in China. It became a must-have for gifted scholars and beautiful ladies and literati. Meanwhile, it can also relieve summer heat and cool off. Folding fans gradually evolved from daily necessaries to art for people to collect and appreciate through the time.

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As the birthplace of Wang’s folding fan, Guangde has the reputation as one of the “Chinese top ten bamboo villages”. It riches in bamboo, as the great material for making fan ribs. Folding fans, also known as “paper fan”, are composed of fan ribs and fan faces. Fan ribs are mainly made of bamboo, wood and bone. The faces are mostly made of silk, Xuan paper and cotton, selecting flowers, birds, fishes and insects, and figures and landscapes as themes. Moreover, fan ribs waxing and fan faces pasting are unique skills in the craftsmanship of Wang’s folding fan.

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The craftsmanship of Wang’s folding fan includes making fan ribs and fan faces, and the whole procedures contains material selection, debarking, polishing, fixing the shape of bamboo strips, drilling holes in bamboo strips, clipping fan surface, and drawing on fan faces.

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Folding fan making techniques show superb traditional folk arts and crafts, and Wang’s folding fan is undoubtedly the best. This craft was listed in the fifth group of representative projects of national intangible cultural heritage in 2021. Wang Deming, master of Chinese folding fan, has inherited this skill.

Entries:

1.the craftsmanship of Wang's folding fan

2.Guangde, Anhui province

3.Chinese top ten bamboo villages

4.folding fan

5.an important symbol of Chinese culture

6.relieve summer heat and cool off

7.daily necessaries

8.art for people to collect and appreciate

9.paper fan

10.fan ribs

11.fan faces

12.bamboo, wood and bone

13.silk, Xuan paper, cotton

14.flowers, birds, fishes and insects

15.figures and landscapes

16.fan ribs waxing

17.fan faces pasting

18.materials selection

19.debarking

20.polishing

21.fixing the shape of bamboo strips

22.drilling holes in bamboo strips

23.clipping fan faces

24.drawing on fan faces

25.representative projects of national intangible cultural heritage

26.master of Chinese folding fan

27.Wang Deming


Editor:Li Ruichuan

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