The method of making an origami fan is as follows:
First prepare a piece of A4 size paper, and then fold it 1CM upward with the long edge. Turn the paper over, and then fold the long side upward by 1cm. Remember that the crease must be parallel to the long side! Repeat the first two steps until all the paper is folded. After folding the paper, it will form a long strip. Then fold the strip in half from the middle.
Open the piece you just folded in half and stick it to one end of the long strip with double-sided tape, just 1/4 of the length. Peel off the white paper strip on the double-sided tape, leaving the glued paper. Then fold it in half and glue the double-sided tape.
The folding fan is also known as "throwing fan", "paper fan", "umbrella fan", "pinch fan", "folding fan", "folding fan", "gathering fan", "gathering fan" "Bone fan", "Zizi fan", "Spin fan", "Tight head fan". It is a foldable fan made of bamboo or ivory as the fan bone and tough paper or damask as the fan surface; when used, it must be spread out into a semicircular shape, with the head and tail gathered together.
The first record of Chinese folding fans appeared in Jiankang (now Nanjing City) of Liang Dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties of China in the fifth century AD. The "Book of Southern Qi" says: "Chu Yuan used his waist fan to block the sun." According to the explanation in "Tongjian Notes", "waist fan" is "folding fan."
It is said that the Fangfeng Pavilion in Hangzhou has the longest history of making folding fans. This family has been manufacturing and selling folding fans for generations and has become rich from this. I bought a villa in Hangzhou, with flowers, trees, bamboos and stones, which is very quiet. The author of "Zaiyuan Magazine" once visited his home when he was in charge of the government in Hangzhou.
Zama asked the owner how to make the fan. The owner took out a small folding fan and said, this is called the "Hundred Bone Fan" and has been passed down for several generations. After counting, there are indeed as many as a hundred fan bones. But it doesn't look like the fan bones are many or thick at all. The color is ancient and smooth, and it is indeed an ancient relic handed down from ancient times.
According to the owner, this kind of fan could no longer be copied at that time. Even if it is imitated, the effect will be very poor. "Baixia Suoyan" records that Nanjing is famous for its origami fan bones. At that time, most of the fan-making industry was concentrated outside Tongjimen. Fans made of Hanglian paper are called noodles, and fans made of Jingyuan paper are called Su noodles, which is better. At that time, there were no fewer than dozens of fans in the Sanshan Street Silk Gallery area.
Zhang’s Qingyun Pavilion is the most famous. This fan maker has well-polished regular script and clean and thick paper. Merchants from far away come to buy it. It’s just that the price is higher and the samples are often short. If you want to buy the old rice dumpling bamboo, cherry red, Xiangfei bamboo and other fan styles with long bones and square feet, you may not be able to find them.
In addition, Shu fans have also been famous for a long time. According to the "Sichuan Fan" entry in Tan Qian's "Zaolin Zazu", when the Ming Dynasty died, Qian Qianyi once presented the Shu fan to Prince Duduo of Henan in the Qing Dynasty. It can be seen that the Shu fan was also a treasure in the world at that time. In modern times, there were not many fan manufacturers in Chengdu, but there were folding fan manufacturers in Rongchang, Longchang and other places in central Sichuan, and their products were sold in Chengdu, Chongqing and other places.