Yangshuo painted fan is a romantic good. Made of either silk or paper with bamboo as the fan support, paint fans are delightfully delicate and colorful. Contents painted in this fan usually include birds, flowers, insects and traditional Chinese girls. It is range in size from small to large.
In ancient time, Chinese literators who were good at writing articles or poems would like to hold a painted fan on their hands. It took as a symbol of handsome as well as gentle of them. Sometimes a painted fan can be a symbol of identification. If you had a fan which was sent by the emperor, you may be in a higher position in the social.
Art and Features
Yangshuo Painted fan is the most popular with tourists at home and abroad of "Guilin landscape", "Yangshuo scenery" theme of ink and wash, etc. Fuli town farmers painter Mo maozhong’s painting “moon will never fall on mountain” with elaborate conception, as describe
the Moon Hill, arise greatly a strong meditate on the oversea Chinese of homesickness feeling.
Yangshuo Painted Fans
Industrial Art: framework of fan is made of the local bamboo (phyllostachys pubescens), and fan surface is made of paper or silk after process of drawing, dyeing, framing, sticking, crossing, and painting.
Features: the patterns are designed by local farmers’ painter, and the content is mostly for the Guilin landscape, flower-and-bird, insect, fish, pastoral scenery, riding horse and seal cutting in small size or big size. The small size is within a foot, and the big size is from 1 meter to 2 meters.
Development
Guangxi Yangshuo Paper Fan after 20 years of constant improvement made remarkable achievements. There are manufacturers of 3 to 5 in the late 1970 s, develop to the present more than 200, the annual output of 3.6 million, products are exported to more than 50 countries and regions. Yangshuo, the famous city’s scenery, has become the largest production base of painting fan and sales market, is known as the "Paper Fan city".
Yangshuo Painted Fans
Painted with beautiful Guilin landscapes from scratch to content expanding, that pattern renovates ceaselessly and skill continuously improves. In the early 1980s, the fan is only a simple landscape painting fan, now the painting has grown into the painting in the front and writing in the opposite. And it improved from single landscaper painting into landscape, flower-and-bird insect fish, pastoral scenery, and riding horse paintings with different contents.
Nowadays, these painted fans become interesting goods rather than symbols of the social positions. Small one can be a tool to get rid of hear during the hot days. Some of the large ones can be used as the very elaborate wall decorations in your house.
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