Hangzhou's fans are the most famous
Hangzhou is a famous fan-making city in my country. Since ancient times, there has been a saying of "Hangzhou elegant fans". Since the Southern Song Dynasty, many fan-making artists have gathered in Hangzhou. In 1875, Wang Xingzhai founded Wang Xingji Fan Factory (later renamed Wang Xingji Fan Factory) in Qinghefang, Hangzhou. He worked hard on material selection, workmanship, varieties, etc., producing black paper fans, sandalwood fans, silk fans, white paper fans, and feather fans. There are all kinds of fans, including palace fans, drama fans, etc. Among them, black paper fans and sandalwood fans are the most famous. The workmanship of its fans is very exquisite. Generally, fans have to go through 16 processes including pasting, folding, coloring and shaping. The black paper fans produced by Wang Xingji are made of palm bamboo and mulberry paper, which can not only fan the wind and keep cool, but also provide shade and shelter from the sun and rain. It has always been known as "a fan and half an umbrella". The factory produced a micro-carved small-script "Three Hundred Tang Poems" real gold, brown and black paper fan that caused a sensation at the 1982 World Expo.
Sandalwood fans are made from Indian sandalwood. The tree needs to be more than several decades old. The wood is fine and hard. The wood contains natural aromatic oils and has a pure and elegant fragrance. Fans have the reputation of "the fan keeps the fragrance." A sandalwood fan still has an elegant fragrance after being stored for decades. Sandalwood fans are handmade crafts, and the main operating techniques are latte art, hot stamping, and carving. Using a wire saw on a thin fan blade, hundreds of tens of thousands of small holes of different sizes and shapes are drawn out by hand to form a variety of exquisite patterns that are ever-changing, suitable for both reality and reality. The unique processing technology makes sandalwood The fan is more refined and elegant, and is another flagship product of Wang Xingji.