Chinese Hand Fan
A hand-fan is used a stream of air to one for the purpose of cooling or to implement a refreshing move. Any broad, flat surface waved back and forth will create a small air flow and can therefore be as a rudimentary fan. But in general, are specially made Hand fans as a sector of a circle and formed from a thin material (such as paper or feathers) mounted fins, which, at a pivot point, so that it can be concluded if it does not provide such garments in motion of a hand-fan by increasing the airflow over the skin, cooling circuits, which in turn increases the evaporation droplets of sweat on the skin. This evaporation is a cooling effect by the latent heat of vaporization of water.
Fans are easy to carry around, and transported to the folding type, especially compact.
Hand-held fan
In China, were used in the entire screen of the fans Country. The earliest known Chinese fans are a pair of woven bamboo side-fans from the second Century BC mounted. The Chinese character for "fan" (扇) is etymologically derived a picture of feathers under a roof. The Chinese fixed fan-Mien Pien means, "to" agitate the atmosphere.
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Fans were part of the social status of the Chinese people. A special status and gender would be a certain kind of individual fan Agreement. During the Song dynasty, famous artists were often commissioned to paint the image on the surface of a fan.
The folding fan was in Japan 8th Century, invented in China and 9th Century. The Akomeogi (or Japanese folding fan;衵扇; hiogi) was founded in the 6th Century. There were fans aristocrats of the Heian period when formally dressed instead. They were by tying thin stripes hinoki (Japanese cypress or) together with thread. The number of stripes of wood differed according to the person place. They are today by Shinto priests in formal costume and in the formal dress of the Japanese court (they saw used by Kaiser and Empress and crowned during the marriage may be) and are brightly painted with long tassels. The Chinese fan dance was in the 7th Century developed. The Chinese form of the hand fan was a Series of springs attached to the end with a handle.
In China, the folding fan came into fashion during the Ming Dynasty between the years 1368 and 1644, Hangzhou was a center and The folding fan production. The May Ogi (or Chinese dancing fan) has ten sticks and a thick paper mount showing the family coat of arms. Chinese painters crafted many fan decoration designs. The slats, of ivory, bone, mica, pearl, were sandalwood or tortoise shell, and carved with paper or fabric. Folding fans have "uniforms" the sticks and guards are. The leaves are usually painted by craftsman. Social significance was attached to the fan in the Far East. The management of the ventilator was a highly regarded feminine art. The function and employment of the fans reached its peak social significance (fans were even used as a weapon is – Called the iron fan, tie or Shan in China, Tessen in Japanese). Simple Japanese paper fans are sometimes known as haris'. In contemporary Japanese pop culture, Haris are frequently featured in the animation and graphic novels as weapons.
Printed fan leaves and painted fans are done on a paper ground. The paper was originally made by hand and showed the characteristic watermark. Machine made paper fans, who in the 19th Century introduced have been, with a smoother texture.
Folding Fans (扇子 Japanese "sensu", Chinese "shànzi";) continue be important cultural symbols and popular tourist souvenirs in East Asia. Geisha of all kinds (but mostly Maiko) use folding fans in their fan dances as well.
See also: Paper Chinese Art; gunbai
Japanese fans are from paper to a frame made of bamboo, usually painted with a design on them. The fan is in Fanning used primarily for themselves during hot weather.
The fan symbol of friendship, respect and good wishes. They are for special occasions given, and they are also an important prop in Japanese dance.
It was also in the military as a way to set the sending of signals on the battlefield, However, fans were mainly used for social and judicial activities. They were used by warriors as a form of weapon, actors and dancers for performances and children used as toys.
The fan is for many things The Japanese believe that the handle of the fan symbolizes the beginning of life and the ribs are for the roads of life going in all directions.
Europe
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Ancient Greek statue of a woman with blue and gold robe, fan and sun hat, from Tanagra, 325-300 BC, Altes Museum, Berlin
Eros with a fan and a mirror with a lady. Ancient Greek amphora from Puglia, Archaeological Museum in Milan, Italy
Representation from the 18 Century folding fan with French design patterns.
Archaeological excavations show that the fans were used in ancient Greece. In Europe during the Middle Ages, the fan was absent. Christian Europe was the earliest fan flabellum (or ceremonial fan), the sixth to the Century. This have been used during services to insects of the consecrated bread and wine drive. Their use died in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, but continues in the Eastern Orthodox And Ethiopian churches. Hand fans were in the 13th in Europe 14th century Century re-established. Fans from the Middle East were brought back by the Crusaders. In the 15th Century Portuguese traders brought fans to Europe from China and Japan. Fans were generally popular.
In the 1600s the folding fan, introduced from China, Europe popular. These fans are particularly well represented in the portraits of the high-born women of the time. Queen Elizabeth 1st to see England, both folding fans with pom poms on their guard decorated sticks as well as the older style rigid fan wearing mostly decorated with feathers and jewels are. These rigid style fans often hung from the skirts of the ladies, but from the fans of this era, it is only the exotic folding those that have survived. Those folding fans of the 15 century, found in museums today have either leather leaves with cut out designs forming a lace-like design or a more rigid leaf with inlays of exotic materials such as mica. One of the characteristics of these fans is the rather coarse Bone or ivory sticks and the way the leather leaves often than not, the sticks are stuck with later folding fans slotted. Fans who decorated entirely of sticks without fans 'Leaf' as brisé were known to fans. But despite the relatively crude methods of construction folding fans were at this age a high status, exotic Products on a par with elaborate gloves as gifts to royalty.
In the 17th Century, the rigid subjects in the portraits of the last century 've seen was in disgrace, as folding fans gained dominance in Europe. Fans began to show well painted leaves, often with a religious or classical subject. The downside Fans also began early this elaborate flower designs displayed. The sticks are often plain ivory or tortoiseshell, sometimes inlaid with gold or silver pique work. The nature and Way the sticks sit close together, often with little or no space between them is one of the characteristic features of the fans of this era.
In 1685 the Edict repeal of Nantes in France. This led to large-scale immigration from France to the surrounding Protestant countries (such as England) of many fan-craftsmen. This dispersion in skill is not in the growing quality of many fans from these countries reflected French after that date.
In the 18 Fans century reached a high level of skill and have been in Europe often produced by specialized craftsmen, either in the leaves or twigs. Folded Fans of lace, silk, or parchment were decorated and painted by artists. Fans were also imported from China by the East India Companies at this time. About the middle of 1700 began Inventor Design of mechanical ventilators. Wind-up fans (similar to wind-up clocks) were popular in the 1700s. In the 19 Century in the West caused European fashion fan decoration and size vary.
It has been said that in the courts of England, Spain and elsewhere fans in a more or less secret, unspoken code of News [1] used this fan languages were a way to cope with the restriction of social etiquette. However, modern research has proven that this is a marketing ploy 18th Century developed – one that their complaint has been remarkable over the following centuries. This is now used for the marketing of fan makers Duvelleroy as in London, which show a series of advertisements in the 1960s, "the language of the fan" with models displayed antique fans with this "language" generated.
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