Feather fans are made of goose-wing hair, and the manufacturing processes include sorting, cleaning, drying, tying, threading, shaping, coloring, painting, decoration and packaging. The main varieties are big moon type, small moon type, big white yuan, small white yuan, small round fan, heart fan, Kongming fan and so on.
Sanhe feather fan has a long history, and it used to be made by private workshops. In 195s, the feather fan craft factory was established by the supply and marketing cooperative, and the feather fans made were widely favored by customers, and were once exported to Southeast Asia in 197s. Later, due to the popularity of household appliances, the sales of feather fans once declined, factories closed and people were laid off. Now, with the development of tourism, the traditional feather fan is dead in spring and shows vitality again.
although electric fans and air conditioners have entered thousands of households, the practical value of feather fans is second to the ornamental value, but it is not useless. Feather fans have a gentle breeze, which is more suitable for pregnant women, lying-in women, the elderly, babies and patients than electric fans.
With the development of tourism in the Three Rivers, feather fans, which were once depressed and neglected, have revived brilliantly. Not only have they become popular in the Three Rivers, but they have also been put on the counters of tourist commodities in Zhouzhuang and Tongli in southern Jiangsu. Tourists leisurely shake feather fans, experience Zhuge Liang's mood of "standing on the tower and watching the mountain scenery", and can also imagine "thinking back to Gong Jin, when Xiao Qiao first married, he was handsome and heroic. Feather fan nylon scarf, talking and laughing, dying in smoke "heroic, send a nostalgia."